My husband and I love to travel. We saved for this chapter in our lives. We never tire of Europe, but love our domestic back roads and big cities. We discussed our next adventure, deciding on Budapest to Nuremberg on a Danube River cruise.
He wanted to research the records about the Nuremberg trials as his dad served as the prison guard for Hermann Goering, the possible successor to Hitler on the Nazi leadership team during World War II. He thought he might find photos of his deceased father. I had travelled to Germany long ago to visit friends, with no castles and history included. Sounded fabulous to me.
My notebook accompanied me everywhere during the trip. I took copious notes. While I was writing the manuscript, a friend told me about Pages and Ibook Author, software I have on my Mac. “You can write in Pages and export it to Ibook Author for an ebook. It’s easy,” she said. She was wrong. Learning Pages was a struggle for me, but I continue to use it for its cool features.
We own a small publishing company, Smoking Dog Publishing, having used it for my first book, MORE than a Paycheck. Ted, the husband and technical whiz (compared to me) offered to help with the formatting and exporting processes. Sometimes we don’t work so well together. Loud voices can cause the dog to guard me under my desk, but this time the team functioned better than sausage with kraut. Can the two of us be mellowing?
I chose the photos for the book. He chose the photos for the video you see on my website with this article. When we listened to available music for the video, we laughed so loud, the Office Manager (Fargo, our dog) woke up to assure our safety. Ted coordinated the music with the video and imported the Pages into the various formats for publishing.
We had two other helpers: Night Owl Marketing and a proof reader who read the fifteenth draft, before the text had an ending. I’m not sure how many times I re-read and edited after the original draft, maybe 154, but I finally said, “Ok, I’m done.”
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