Dialogue with my muse |
JOE: Good morning Calliope. CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. How are you today? JOE: Not half bad. CALLIOPE: What have you been up to? JOE: Puttering around while waiting for my book proof to arrive. I've been catching up on my writer and marketing communities, listening to a marketing broadcast and preparing publicity for Navigating Life. CALLIOPE: You have been busy. When do you expect your proof? JOE: I was just getting to that. It arrived yesterday afternoon. Technically it is a bound galley. I was quite satisfied with how the cover turned out after all my grief in developing it. CALLIOPE: Why didn't you just pay to have it done? JOE: I'm not yet in a financial position to pay people for such services as design or even proofreading. Sometimes I wish I were. CALLIOPE: Did you learn anything from doing all your own design work? JOE: I learned to appreciate all that goes into it. I also got to think about each component of my book more than I would have if I had farmed out the work. CALLIOPE: There are those benefits. How about proofreading? JOE: That is the one place I wish I had been able to hire someone professional. Many of the sections were proofread in the past. I didn't feel I could impose on friends to proofread this text. Maybe I will regret it. I think in the future that I will try to budget money for this. CALLIOPE: Good idea. When do you expect the book to be available. JOE: You'll be the first to know. Perhaps in another week or so. Talk with you tomorrow. |