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Monday I Became Immune

 It's with great relief and hopeful feelings that I announce that it has been two weeks since my second COIVD shot. I can no longer get the disease, and if I'm careful, I probably won't spread it.

Who Ray!

I'm hoping to download my edited and formatted files to Ingram Spark this week.

This means my novel 26 Women will soon be available in digital form. (Nook, Apple, and Kindle) It will also be available in a Trade Paperback version that will soon be available through your favorite bookstore or online vendor.

The journey down this trail of self-publication is both an education and a trial by fire. Anyone that tells you it's easy has already done it more than once. There are demands made, particularly in formatting the files that are not for amateurs.  

John Gresham does not concern himself about allowing for the bleed in his book size configuration entries. 

Nor does he have to be aware that the first paragraph in a Chapter has no indentation. 

The Font in the chapter heading is different than the one in the body. 

Quotation marks are like not like this ", they are like this“. 

Fonts are important: serif, non-serif, their size, when to italicize,  bold, etc., and when not.

Spacing between chapter heads and body, between sentences, between paragraphs. All have importance and precedents behind them.

If my daughter, Mary Jo, wasn't a professional, I would
A. have a computer screen with a huge crack in it sustained from multiple strikes by a computer mouse thrown in anger.
B. I wouldn't have a file to publish with because I would have given up.
C. or I would publish a very amateurish, ugly-looking book.

File-This: Under You Never Know When What You're Watching Will Become An Incon Of History.

I decided to watch both games in the NCAA Men's Basketball Semifinals yesterday. The Baylor Bears took care of Houston rather easily by building a huge halftime lead and then winning by 19.

In the game that was supposed to be a walk in the park for Gonzaga, UCLA put up an amazing fight. They played almost good enough to win and certainly memorable enough to earn respect. They tied the score in the first overtime, leaving 3.3 seconds on the clock.

As UCLA basket to tie the score and potentially send the game to second overtime went through the hoop,  Gonzaga player Cory Kispert pulled in the ball and fired it to Freshman Jason Suggs, who sunk a half-court three-pointer to wn the game.

https://youtu.be/Sx3LuhZOFn8

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