Amazon has now added the “click inside the book” feature on their site for : My Poetic Path.
I also got the first copies in the mail yesterday. I’m really pleased overall with the quality of the book.
I’m working on a media release right now. Targeting BC public libraries to begin marketing my book.
Need to get some reviews in the meantime too!
Hope you stop by for a “click inside” soon. I love this feature, so helpful.
Happy Wednesday. 
I saw this beautiful shell photo over at Sandy Carlson’s blog a while back.
It made me think about the upcoming summer and how the beach is one of the best places to enjoy it.
Thanks Sandy, for the inspiring photo and for allowing me to use it here.
The haiku poem above is one of 120 I am including in my haiku book; that I am currently working on. Celebrating the wonder of the four seasons.
Happy Weekend and Happy Beach Dreams too!
PS: Thanks to everyone who sent along their best/healing wishes, since my eye injury last Friday. Most appreciated. My eye is almost back to normal now. It was a frightening experience, I blogged about it over at Happy Break.
I’m waiting for the copies of my poetry book to arrive, can’t wait!
It was such a good experience, putting this collection together over at CreateSpace that it has spurred me on to finally get my haiku book together too!
I thought of an idea for using in this book and here’s where my question comes in.
I’d like to use special character symbols on the pages of the book; in keeping with each of the seasons.
I’ve been trying to find symbols similar to this: ♥ but I need:
a snowflake, a flower/daisy shape, the sun and a leaf.
And symbols that can be copy/pasted into a text document.
I’ve been looking around online but can’t find anything like this.
If you can help, thanks a bunch!
Happy Weekend, G
Study in crimson.
Lush, warm colors in my mind.
Breathing in lifeblood.
♥
Crimson leaves in fall.
A view that always delights.
Favorite season.
♥
The sky at sunset.
Crimson lights the horizon.
Nightfall: comes too fast.
♥
Also submitted as this week’s, One Single Impression prompt: Crimson
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms!
Wow, that was fast!
I finished my poetry book (early, early morning….couldn’t sleep, on May 9th) over at CreateSpace.
Today it’s already available for sale over at Amazon:
I am really pleased with how the book turned out.
I have copies on order right now so if anyone would like a signed copy from me, instead of ordering one elsewhere, send me an email at: mypoeticpath at myway.com (subject line: book order) and I’ll send you a paypal request for payment. I will also be charging the regular retail price $10 (includes postage) for signed copies I send out personally.
My experience using CreateSpace was wonderful! I’ll be writing a review of their book publishing services in the near future.
I needed some cheering up today. It was a stressful day here yesterday. This helped!
Now, on to my haiku collection and novel! 
PS: Is anyone else having a problem with WordPress signing you up automatically for email comment updates? I’m getting TONS of emails for blogs I visited and commented/liked a post at but did not subscribe to. I have all my subscriptions in one place: Google Reader and also use my sidebars for blog visiting. I’ve written to WP about this. Hopefully this glitch ends soon.
It will be five years this week since my mom passed on.
It is an ache in my heart that never really leaves. I miss her so much.
With Mother’s Day coming up on Sunday, there are reminders everywhere of how many things I miss about my mom. ♥
Her favorite color was blue so I’m sharing this photo again. This was a flower and shade of blue she especially loved.
This is a previous post from 2008: A Day at the Park .
It was a special day I spent alone: to honor my mom, dwell on the good times we had… It brought tears to my eyes, re-reading it recently.
This year, I have a “knit and sew day” planned for my mom’s day. Two hobbies she absolutely loved.
I re-introduced her to knitting after she had given up the craft, many years ago. She was so glad that I did. Knitting was such a joy to her. And she taught me so much about sewing, she was an excellent seamstress. I learned from the best.
Some my happiest memories with her, making something beautiful out of a piece of fabric or a ball of yarn. The simple things and times that were so much fun and are such good memories to think about now.
If your mom is still with you here on earth, cherish the time you can spend with her. Never take it for granted. They leave such a gap in our lives when they are gone.
Happy Mother’s Day.
Well, I certainly did luck out re: the photo question I had in the post below this one.
Thank you again Lissa for getting the photo ready to use, sans the logo it had. You’re a star!
And also to Sue, that was nice of you to work on this as well.
Some very talented bloggers out there. So nice when we can help each other, isn’t it?
And when you’re techie-challenged like I am (but getting better) I really appreciate the help, always!
My poetry book is taking much too long to complete. I seem to be running into a number of small issues that are keeping me from getting this finished. My question today is about footers. I want to manually type in page numbers, possibly with some text and the page number. This is so that I can allow for chapter pages etc, that don’t need a footer or page number. I’m stumped!
I’m using OpenOffice 3.3 and otherwise, I think it’s a good program for word processing, so far at least. I just started using it about a week ago. Quite user-friendly.
But I can’t figure out how to define footer-page numbers without them reverting back to the same text of a previous footer/page.
Why there’s no manual override for something as simple as footers, I don’t know. I read quite a few frustrated comments online about this very same issue.
If anyone can explain how to set different footer-text/page numbers, manually in OpenOffice, I’d be very grateful for your help.
Happy Thursday.
PS: For some reason, WP is not allowing me to change the text in this post to black instead of the default grey (that comes with this template, why I don’t know. Black is always better IMO for a font color) Anyhoo….I tried 3 times to make it all black/uniform but I’m giving up.
Taking up more time that could be used better elsewhere LOL!
As I blogged about here recently, I am compiling a collection of my poetry from 2000-2010, into a book format. The document is all ready to go, except for a bit of minor tweaking: table of contents, dedication…
I have this lovely photo chosen (my fav path photo. I had it for a header here for a long time too) for the front cover of this book and here’s where my question comes in.
As you can see above, the photo has a logo on it from Arborday.org (who have graciously allowed me to use this photo for my poetry book). They unfortunately do not have an original file available, without the logo. I know there must be a way to remove this and copy and paste a small section of the tree part of the photo over the logo that would not be detectable. I don’t want to chop off the top of the photo either. When I had it as a header, that’s what I had to do, to make it fit.
Any suggestions?
Thanks so much if you can help.
Happy Weekend.
