Lightbringer, Book Publishing & Other Stories

Sometimes writing blog posts is easy, I just sit down in front of the WordPress editor and I’m away.  Other times (like now) it is a painful process that could only be made more unpleasant by being presented with a large bill at the end whether I’ve written something or not.

Perhaps it could be something to do with the fact that I know have four domains and sites/blogs to take care of, and two of those need building from scratch.
Yes it is fair to say that things are a little hectic right now, but in a good way.  I think.  Ask me in a few weeks time for an answer to that one.

The primary reason for my tardiness in blog post writing is that I have spent almost every spare moment I have over the last month or so trying to launch a new business.  Not that I thought it was going to turn into a fully fledged company.
Around eight years ago my Mum wrote a book and tried to get it published.  The book is the story of her life and the development of her gift as a spiritual medium, spanning a weighty 250ish pages of A4 sized text at present.
But despite their best efforts no publishers were interested at the time, and it has taken until now with the advent of self publishing through sites such as Lulu.com that the book has been resurrected and finished off.

Mum wrote the book, Dad edited and put it into book format and now I’m finishing the whole thing off and getting it “out there” at long last.
This has proved to be a much larger task then I had originally anticipated.  Sally read the book through and proofed it herself initially.  I made her corrections and then had to read through it again myself, and there were a lot of changes that had to be made.  Not so much with mistakes (these were few and far between, and the spelling and grammar checker in Word made short work of them) but more with formatting and general sentence structure.

Fortunately what at times seemed like a never ending task was completed on Monday this week, so we have finally entered the home stretch for getting the finished product out the (virtual) door.
The book is entitled Living With The Light, and will be made available as a DRM-free digital download from the official site (currently under construction), and as a physical book which will can be purchased online from Lulu and through Amazon.  A free sample PDF containing a couple of chapters will be coming soon to the site, as well as the possibility of an eBook via Lulu that can be read on the Amazon Kindle/Apple iPad, etc.
We also have enough material for probably another two books, so if this one proves to be popular there is plenty more where it came from!

This new venture has also meant that we have had to form a new company to deal with it, so in a rather surreal way I am now the director of Cullen IT Consultancy and the newly formed Lightbringer Enterprises.  Five years ago I wouldn’t have imagined I would run one company, let alone two!
For the last month I have been IT Consultant Man(TM) during the day, and Wanna Publishing Tycoon at night, which is a rather tiring double act to be playing.  My primary IT contract will be coming to an end in a weeks time, and then we are taking a couple of weeks off before heading onto the next venture.

I might even get a chance to watch some movies or play some games!

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