Resuscitating Relationships

Hello, again!

Have you ever published anything? Did you go through what I did - writing is the easy part - finding/contacting/jumping through their hoops/waiting for a publisher is the real anxiety-producing part of publishing?

Confession time! I bought a book which listed thousands of publishers all over the world. I found one that was a perfect fit for my Reviving Classrooms with CPR - Creating Productive Relationships book - a FABULOUS  :) "how to" book for teachers. That one publisher was very well known. I prepared most of the items that they required. HOWEVER, all this time, I was thinking to myself, "This is so impersonal, and what if I don't know how to do what they ask? Who would I ask? What if they don't even respond back to me?" Don't forget, I'm all about the power of relationships, whether in schools, homes, businesses...even publishing companies! So I couldn't bring myself to send off the document to Mr./Ms. No Name/No Face Publisher. 


Saved by a friend! My Dissertation Chair Dr. Barbara Holmes and I went to lunch, and she told me she had just published her book about the dissertation process. She was wonderful as my Dissertation Chair, so I wasn't surprised that she had written a book about it; but, did she say it was PUBLISHED? Yes, she did, AND she was very pleased with Eric (She knows a first name?) at Avid Readers Publishing Group. She went through a self-publishing process, which means that she got her book virtually ready to print. Then, Eric PERSONALLY walked her through the fine print edits and made any changes that she requested. He consulted with her on every level of the preparing-to-print process, had the book printed, and sent it out to Amazon and others to be printed on demand. She paid next to nothing for this to happen, and now she is published - Congrats, Dr. Holmes!


I asked her if she would PLEASE give me Eric's information; and instead, she sent him an email to introduce me and told him that I would contact him soon. That was 3 weeks ago and the beginning of a fine RELATIONSHIP. Now, Eric and I are within a week of having my Reviving book and e-book ready to order online! It has been a totally anxiety-free, inexpensive and fun process! My impetus to publish was immediately resuscitated by having a trusting, working relationship with Eric!

Now, doesn't this just make all of you want to go into the world, write and publish!? It sure took away the scary aspects that I had heard about and imagined. What a relief! Now, I might just go ahead with the CPR relationships training book, the parenting book, the children's book and the memoirs of Italian trips that have been floating around in my mind waiting for someone that knows the importance of relationships in publishing, like Eric!