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Alzheimer's Trippin' with George Book Launch Count Down Day 5

Here you go!  Count down to the book launch.  5 days left!!!! A bit about the bike club, the Hen House Restaurant, and the City of Inverness, Florida. Please share with those you think might benefit or enjoy reading Alzheimer's Trippin' with George. The links to the book is below.  One book, two covers. Sunset Cover: http://bit.ly/AlzTrippinKndlSunset Joy/Covertible Cover: http://bit.ly/AmazonAlzTrippnConvKindl So far pre-orders on the Kindle are 26 total, 2 Sunset, 24 Joy. See you tomorrow... well, you will see me anyway.  I will imagine seeing you. Thanks for joining the journey.  If you didn't get the email notifications for this post.  Click the Join tab above and fill out the spaces to get added to the email list. 

Book Launch Count Down - 6 days!

Not time today... gotta ride. Here's the video for DAY 6. See you on Day 5!

Count down to Launch - Day 7 - Alzheimer's Travel Book

Hello! I was up real early this morning.  I couldn't sleep!  I had forgotten to record the video yesterday for the Count Down to the Launch of the Kindle version of the book, Alzheimer's Trippin' with George. This was recorded at about 4:00 this morning. They have Youtube live and I have been meaning to try it as well as facebook live.  But I think I need to get good at presenting.  I have to cut out a lot of UMMMMM, and silent thought still from my videos.  LEARNING so much. Anyway,  If you can share this blog pretty easy on your social media, just send them to http:www.susanstraley.com The front blog post will change daily during the count down. I am debating about whether to have an open or closed group on facebook.  Right now the group is closed so that my personal page isn't full of the book focus.  But, being close means that it is harder for the members to SHARE!! and those SHARES are so important if the book is going to reach folks that are seekin

Day 8 - Count Down to Kindle Book Launch

Wow, that day went fast!  Already only 8 days left before the Kindle Launches. When you set a date for a kindle launch you have to have everything up and ready to go several days before you launch.  Amazon wants to make sure it can fulfill the pre-orders. So if the publisher (in this case me, the author) goofs up and tries to make changes after the deadline, Amazon will ban them from publishing ever again. That is scary.  I have had my book up and ready to launch for a long time.  BUT now I am working furiously to not only promote the books but to go in and make the pictures bigger and crisper (more pixels). See, what I didn't know is when you copy and paste, some of the density of the pixels is reduced.  Then Kindle provides a special software for the Kindle and that reduces the size of the pictures.  So the pictures are tiny and when I zoom in they are fuzzy.  I am going picture by picture and I would guess there are well over 900 pictures in the first book.  So it i

Day 9 - Count Down to the Kindle Book Launch

I just looked at the calendar and OH MY!  Only 9 days to the launch of the Kindle version of the first book in the Trippin' series.  I am excited!  I am going to TRY to make a video a day counting down to the launch.  Here is the first one.  Let me know what you think.  Comments are welcome. OTHER NEWS Gosh, so much! 1) I had my friends here from Wisconsin, Mark and Jane.  We went hiking in Potts Preserve!  If you have been following this blog a while, you may have seen the video I made of us at Potts . I was a bit nervous during the walk and let out a big cheer when we made it out ok. I went kayaking with them from Silver Springs State Park.  It is about an hour's drive, but worth it to see this crystal clear spring fed river and the wildlife along it.  Thanks to Mark for taking the pictures. They had a friend from Wisconsin, Tom, that came up to visit them from near Miami.  He was very nice and fun.  The picture below was something we all should fear wh

Help Promote, Send a Picture or a Video.

Get creative! Read in the sea,  by a tree,  with me,  sitting on a giant pea...  Read it with your dog,  on a log,  knee deep in bog,  next to a frog... Read it in a chair,  on the stairs,  at the fair... Snap a picture or video yourself reading your favorite part of Alzheimer's Trippin' with George I am excited about a promotion idea and I HOPE that you will get excited too.  I think it will be fun! I will talk about that first and then, after that,  I will give you a peek into what is happening now. Video Trailer I have learned that books have to have trailers now days. Just like a movie.  I bought one for cheap.   It is actually pretty good, considering.  I will share it in the next post, it isn't quite done yet. But I got an idea of just a video showing people reading Alzheimer's Trippin' with George .  Maybe I will add it to the professional video I have or make one on its own... who knows. BUT I would like to get picture

Riding Writing Flying

Yesterday I went and rode the Van Fleet Trail.  It is one of my favorite trails.  Some people find it boring, so very straight and not a single hill.  But it goes through the Green Swamp.  So we get to see wildlife. Yesterday I saw a wild turkey and three very LARGE otter.  I rode with a trike group that was visiting our area.  There were two velo-mobiles riding with us. I AM FEELING CELEBRITY I got a poem from Kathie Heimsoth, my neighbor and fellow author.  She framed it for me. Last week Heather that takes pictures for the trail newsletter was out with her camera.  Then I got my picture on the Withlacoochee Trail facebook page!  I love the picture. GOOD FEEDBACK And I have to share this news.  So excited to get good feedback on my book.  The book club in my neighborhood chose my book for their April book to read and discuss.  I gave them two copies to pass around.  One of the guys wrote me an email today and said, " I am reading your book and I can'