Archive for February, 2008

Whew! I am happy to say that I have completed the first draft of the upcoming book “TurnKey Publishing”. It hasn’t been the easiest endeavor but I am happy to say that 90% of the book is written. The last 10% will be filling in holes I left out and refining the content.

I have gotten to the point where I will be soliciting feedback from my editor and other business associates on the book. I am going to take a chance and say that I hope to have this book published in the 2nd quarter of 2008. I am not going to say which month right now. It is still too soon for that.

The next milestone I want to hit is having a strong 2nd draft. I want this version to be reasonably close to the final product. Whereas the first draft is largely laying out the outline structure and fleshing out each section, the 2nd draft is where a lot should come together. That is because I will be getting feedback from advisors and my editor. I hope to complete the 2nd draft by the end of March.

This should allow me enough certainty to announce a more definitive release date. I will also be posting this update to the TurnKeyPublisher.com website.

Just a quick note to check in…

I have been mentally drained for the last 2 weeks not updating my blog because nearly all of my writing energies have been directed to the launch of my newest publishing project, “TurnKey Publishing” and its companion website TurnKeyPublisher.com. I have been logging some incredible late night hours writing and constructing my newest book.

Every time I think I am close to completing my first draft, I think of some topics to add to the book. Some topics I wrote had to be removed and sidelined because it belonged into another book and not directly relevant to the immediate one. And so, the past 2 weekends I was thinking I was close to finishing but now after yet another feeling the need to do more research to add more topics, I am now trying to finish a first draft 2 weekends from now. If I have to go into March 2008 to finish my first draft, I think I might choke.

This is probably the single most important publishing project in 4 years since I launched the “TurnKey Investing” series in 2004. I have learned a lot of lessons of launching a new book series and so I am trying to streamline everything. More importantly, I want to add at least 4 TurnKey Publisher titles after the foundation book has been released. Basically, I am trying to accomplish within one what it took me over 2 years to do with the “TurnKey Investing” series. I guess I just believe in taking things slow.

Truly, there has been a lot of news and issues to comment on and I eventually want to. But this blog has to take a backseat until I complete some major milestones.

Will try to update again soon.