Lovely Day

The Book is Almost Ready!

The Book is Almost Ready!

It’s All Coming Together

I received the paperback proof copy of my book on January 22, 2025. That’s a pic of me the day I got it. I was, and still am, so happy to hold something physical in my hands instead of seeing the words I’ve seen on a computer screen scroll by for the past four years.

Today, I made the last changes and sent them to the publisher! I’m sure I’ll notice many things I’d like to change after this point, but I feel really good that I made some small changes this late in the process. I like that this is happening on Valentine’s Day.

You can’t read the subtitle on the book in that pic because it’s so small, but it was one that I asked for your help choosing. The full title is: “Thinking About Speaking: The Adastra Approach to Mastering the American English Accent.”

The cover is the one most voted for with just a small change to the title format. I’m really happy with it!

It’s been great to be able to share so many milestones on this book writing journey with you. It was last February when I first sent the first 10 chapters of my book to the publisher for editing. I wasn’t very fast to review and work on the edits when they were returned to me multiple times, but I never had a deadline in mind so this got stretched out over a year’s time. I also had to put a renewed focus on my business last year so priorities kept changing. That makes it all the more exciting to be at this point one year later.

Besides setting up a way to buy the book on my website, I’m also working on putting the majority of the book (what’s not in the printed version) in a format that can be downloaded. That will be all the actual descriptions and examples of sound changes in pronunciation. I’d like to add audio to it, so that will slow down the process, but I’ll keep you posted.

Thank you all for your encouragement all along the way!