Yesterday I met with Randolph Jennings (aka Randy Jennings), a friend and colleague here in Northfield who has book publishing experience. He gave me lots of feedback and several good ideas and we now plan to meet weekly to review the previous week’s writing. My goal is to write at least one hour per weekday. I’m targeting 7-8 am but will find other time slots during the day if I can’t or don’t get it done then. We’ll see if this weekly meeting and a public statement here is enough of a hammer over my head to get the book done by the end of the summer. Randy knows Don Leeper, owner of Pagewing which has Digital Publishing System: “…a web-based software application allowing publishers to create a book as a master XML file that can be stored, edited, and used to generate multiple output options on the fly, including high-quality typeset pages for offset printing, print-on-demand files, and various ebook formats.” Could be what I’ll need. Unbeknownst to me, Leeper got seed financing from a colleague, Gary Smaby of the Quatris Fund. And the guy who put the two of them together was another colleague, Mike O’Connor, formerly one of my bosses at gofast.net. Cool.
