Blame Canada

Driving to work this morning I saw a van with "Schindler Elevators" written on the side. Someone missed a great opportunity to call their company Schindler's Lifts.

Anyway, random thoughts aside, I've been busy with yet another project lately. Not blogging (that's been a little neglected), not even writing articles (although I have been working on a few - see my website under About/About the Editor/Portfolio - there's new stuff under Beacon Magazine and Niagara This Week), but writing a book.

Yesireebob! The youth shelter where I work has been going for over 20 years, and the founder wants to write a book about how the place was set up and all the stuff that's happened there over the years. It's a Christian organization (but not in-your-face or pushy about it) and the focus of the book will be how youth have been helped and everything God has done.

So I'm interviewing the founder once a week (who's also contributing some of the writing) and doing a chapter on the basis of each interview. We've signed a contract and I've already written two chapters. Hopefully, by March, we'll have a first draft!

I'm even getting paid to write it (my hours and pay from reception will be transferred to working on the book). Plus there's royalties (but I'm not holding my breath on that one). So, ladies and gents, I am now (or will be when the book is finished, but I'm too excited to wait till then) an Official Author!

This is something I've wanted to be ever since I was able to use a pen (in fact, when I was a young child I even wrote little books in pencil - like 'Bowtie's Birthday', pictured right along with 'The Deer' and 'The Rabbit'). So it's a dream come true! : ))))