A Cyber Adventure

                                                                                                    August 30, 2010

            So I’m embarking on a cyber adventure.  Here it goes…publishing an e-book.  How very exciting.  Yet there’s so much to do when marketing oneself.  Our mothers taught us to be demure and polite, but in the day and age of Twitter, Facebook and the like it’s all about shamelessly promoting yourself even if you’ve nothing to promote but your daily routine.  If you’re Brittany Spears people care that you stopped by McDonald’s for a fry and chocolate shake if you’re Vicki Nicholson not so much. 

            Product doesn’t seem to matter at all.  It’s just about celebrity.  However, in this endeavor, my endeavor to get I Don’t Know Jack out there into the world of e-book buyers there is a goal.  A product, if you will, that is worth all the promotion.  So I’m going to keep this little blog to let you know how it’s going.  Use it as a forum for those of you who might want to try e-publishing yourself.  To gain advice from those who have already done this kind of thing and to hopefully amuse the rest of you along the way.  

            So far I’ve met with a web designer who is going to get me going with a fabulous web page for you all to peruse.  I’ve begun to revisit the book, ok that’s a lie I’ve dug the hard copy out from a drawer and set it on my nightstand where it haunts me.  But it will be ready to go because I’ve set myself a deadline of October 1^st.  That’s when I told my web man I’d have the info for him.  So I’ll have to have it ready by then!  And by actually writing this down it only enforces the deadline right?  There are people anxiously awaiting the e-publication so I must not keep them waiting! 

            Which leads to the fear side of going it alone in cyber-land.  How do I know anyone is out there reading?  How do I know I’m not just writing this for myself?  Blogging innately is writing for oneself.  The readers are secondary.  But a blog is a posted journal, which you are putting out there for the cyber world to read and hopefully respond to.  I suppose it’s to stir up others thoughts while stirring up your own.  Sharing fears to ease them.  I’m not a shameless promoter, but I certainly don’t want an unread blog floating out there in cyber land.  That might be a little embarrassing.  So, I invite you to come along on the journey of a non-tech girl embracing the virtues of the e-book world.