Lincoln Writer's Club and Word Weavers Land of Lincoln will host
workshop Tuesday
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[August 03, 2012]
Linda L. Allspach Sheehan, originally
of Mount Pulaski, will be at Lincoln College on Tuesday evening to
demonstrate how to use online tools to publish a book. All area
writers and would-be writers are invited to this workshop.
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Her presentation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Room 104 of Gehlbach
Hall on Hennepin Street Sheehan has self-published two books:
"Animals and More Animals," using Lulu.com, and "Five Cheetahs,"
using CreateSpace.com. They are the first two books in a series
called "Grandma Goes to South Africa."
At the workshop, Sheehan will use her computer and a projector to
show how to use these publishing websites; how to obtain, adjust and
insert images into a manuscript; how to make a book suitable for
Amazon; how to set a book price; and other self-publishing
activities.
Linda and her husband, Dennis, grew up in Mount Pulaski and
farmed in that area until 1994. They served 11 years as missionaries
in Jamaica and Poland before joining a humanitarian enterprise -- a
Howard G. Buffet Foundation agricultural research farm -- in South
Africa. They are now located at a branch research farm in Arizona.
While in South Africa, the Sheehans encountered scores of
unfamiliar animals and participated in new activities -- like
driving a Gator (John Deere ATV) and fighting a bush fire. Linda
longed to share these experiences with their grandchildren. She
finally realized she could do that by arranging pictures and stories
in book form.
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Although she is producing this series of books with her
grandchildren in mind, she has designed them as high-interest,
informative books to be read by other children and used by schools
and libraries. "Animals and More Animals" features large print and
simple words for young readers. It also contains teaching tools like
"new words" lists and questions about the story. "Five Cheetahs" is
written for students in fourth through sixth grades, with in-depth
information and a conservation message.
Area writers with a story, some information or a message to share
are invited to the workshop to learn how to publish as many or as
few books as they wish.
[Text from file received from
Celia Milslagle]
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