So that’s the story on my fantel for this Christmas.
The first call was almost like an interview for me, which in retrospect makes sense, because they want to be sure I’m an actual person, with an actual passion for what I’m going to write about.They wanted to know a little bit about my story and my background, and if I had any other interests besides the main subject for the book, and of course what made me so interested in writing a book on this subject, which was homekeeping/cleaning tips.
I was really surprised though, as I thought that I would mostly be listening rather than talking on this call, so I kind of had to gather my thoughts quickly on the spot and then “sell” myself a little bit.I didn’t think I’d have to do much talking or “selling myself” because they really have access to a huge amount of my writing on my blog, and I just kind of thought that would speak for itself.There was a second call about a week or so later where we were supposed to talk about some ideas for concepts and things like that, and by that time I knew a little more about what to expect, so I came prepared!
I came up with a few different ideas for the book and got myself ready to talk about my general vision for what type of book I would want it to be and how I would want it to look and feel.I still felt like I really had to sell myself on that second call, maybe even more so than on the first call, but it was much easier when I knew that I was the one who would be doing most of the talking, job interview-style..
So we landed on a concept pretty quickly and they asked me to send them a list of the chapters that I wanted to include in the book, along with the introductions to each of those chapters as it would appear in the book,.
1-2 fully-written chapters for them to look over.And so not for you right now.
I’m right there with you.. I’ve really been enjoying all the little sewing projects I’ve been doing lately and., I know I’ll definitely follow one of those tutorials for “professional” looking curtains with pleats and dips and doo-dads and it will be great and not as hard as I think it’s going to be.
Right now though, I want simple, fast, and straightforward.But I still want to maybe get my feet wet a little bit with this and try out this curtain making thing and come out the other side with awesome results..