The book is done!
Hike with Me: Idaho Centennial Trail Sawtooths is finished. The large print softcover is available through CreateSpace and Amazon. The ebook is available from Amazon right now, additional retailers soon.
I use Smashwords for distribution to additional retailers and unfortunately, I stuffed this book so full of beautiful pictures of the Idaho Sawtooths that the file is too large for processing. There’s a way to get around the larger file size, I think, so I’m going to give that a try. But for now, it’s available, if not as available as it will be. The work is almost done.
I’m happy with the amount of time that it took me to produce this one. It was a longer trip than in previous years, but I think the main reason that I took longer with it was that my attention was split between doing well in Spanish class and writing this book with a good amount of thought and style. The one year that I finished my book relatively early was the same year that I was taking a creative nonfiction writing class. The class itself helped me focus on the work of my book. The Spanish class took away from focusing on the book, simply because it was a very different type of learning.
Every one of my Hike with Me books is better than the last. It’s not just that I’m having bigger and better adventures, though that is part of it. It’s also practice and experience and the fact that my husband has become less hesitant about giving me critique that can help improve my writing.
I’m excited to put this book out into the world, and I’m excited to move onto my next projects. There’s another nonfiction project in the works, and I still have a story to finish from last summer. I’m finally going to do an online writing workshop that I’ve wanted to do for years and I’m going to keep writing, keep publishing, keep improving and keep enjoying sharing stories.