Tuesday, December 18, 2012

From Blog...To Book!


Some pretty exciting news to report today:

"An American Teacher in Taiwan" is now a book, exclusive to Amazon Kindle.  If you happen to notice that this blog is now a mere shell of its former self...well...that's because the rights of this blog are now exclusive to Amazon, and they don't really want me to compete with myself.  Can't blame them.

The blog is still up, but from this point it will be mostly to publish any letters I might get from readers, videos, and (of course) promotion for the book.

I have to give Christy most of the credit for this happening.  She was watching a news program on Sunday morning that ran a story on "Self Publishing" and she suggested that I try it.  I began writing that story as a book anyway, but changed it to a blog since I didn't think I had enough material (turned out I had more than enough...since I'm still working on the second part.)

I also want to give a plug to the guy who created the cover.  I tried for hours and hours to create my own cover, but it looked like total, unprofessional shit.  So I found this guy on a website called "Fiverr" who designs Kindle covers for $5.00 (everything is five dollars on Fiverr, thus the name).  His screen name is "idrewdesign" and he did an awesome job for me.  Hopefully I can make that $5.00 back in sales of the book.  :)

So here it is...my first book....for the low, low price of $2.99.  You can click the link to go straight to the Amazon page here.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

US Citizenship Ceremony Video

This is the video I took of Christy's citizenship oath in San Antonio last August.  The video runs about 3 minutes long.  It wouldn't be that interesting if it wasn't for the wacko shouting after the country "Sudan" was read.  Listen carefully and you can hear Taiwan right after.