reader99
1-21-14, 9:14am
I've been working on a book on thrifty living for a couple of years, and this month I actually finished it. When my income dropped sharply in 2009 I had to change how I spent money and how I lived. This could easily have felt like “Oh crap, I don’t have enough money, this is awful.” Because I made the experience into research for a book and documented the experience, instead it became “Wow, look what can be done with very little money.”
The book is now out in Kindle format on Amazon.com under the title Frugal Living for the 21st Century: Adventures in Using Your Money Wisely. By publishing it electronically my only cost of publishing was paying for cover art because I couldn't figure out how to use the freeware Paint.NET. I commissioned the cover on www.fiverr.com and it was $5 for the cover and $10 for the picture which would have cost me $30 if I bought it myself. What a change from just a few years ago when the only choices were the miniscule chance of getting published by a traditional publishing house or spending thousands to self-publish a physical book. In the process I discovered the joy of blogging, at adventures99.wordpress.com, so I got a new hobby out of it as well.
Reader99/Writer99
The book is now out in Kindle format on Amazon.com under the title Frugal Living for the 21st Century: Adventures in Using Your Money Wisely. By publishing it electronically my only cost of publishing was paying for cover art because I couldn't figure out how to use the freeware Paint.NET. I commissioned the cover on www.fiverr.com and it was $5 for the cover and $10 for the picture which would have cost me $30 if I bought it myself. What a change from just a few years ago when the only choices were the miniscule chance of getting published by a traditional publishing house or spending thousands to self-publish a physical book. In the process I discovered the joy of blogging, at adventures99.wordpress.com, so I got a new hobby out of it as well.
Reader99/Writer99