February 18, 2014
I created this blog to publicize, talk about, brag about, discuss, defend, and rue the day I decided to publish this thing (available in paperback and eBook. Cheap! Buy early and buy often!)
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My first self-published book, "Selected Salvos from the
Loose Cannon Libertarian," was officially born on or about February 16
when I clicked the "Approve" button on Lulu.com and it was officially
unleashed upon an unsuspecting public.
I chose Lulu as my publishing source because they offered a
book template in Microsoft Word .docx format.
I knew that would make it simple for me to bake my own book.
During a career as a freelance contract technical writer I
had used nearly every iteration of Word at one time or another to create end user,
repair, theory of operation and maintenance manuals for an eclectic collection
of clients.
In fact, my introduction to Word came about during a project
in which I had to create a technical manual from blank screen to finished
product using an early DOS version of Word. No Windows, no mouse, monochrome
monitor. All design, layout, margins, headers & footers, page numbering and
text were keystroke driven.
It's not that I claim to be a Worldly Word SME (Subject
Matter Expert). There were many things in Word I never needed to learn in order
to produce a tech manual so I didn't learn them. Moving from client to client I
learned what I needed to learn to get the job done and then moved on. Sometimes
I wouldn't see much of Word for months, even years, while I was working in
other packages such as Word Perfect, FrameMaker, PageMaker, Arbortext and other in-house proprietary
programs while supplementing the text with graphics in AutoCad or Visio or
CoralDraw, or otherwise performing logistics support analysis using SLIC,
LEADS, CLASS, ILSA and whatever.
But because of that experience I had little problem creating
my book in the latest version of Word and the template Lulu offered.
"Selected Salvos" is a collection of 20 of my earliest
articles, all six from NewsGuy and the rest from Loose Cannon Libertarian from
the years 2001 and 2002. All, then as now, were written on my own various
computers using various versions of Word.
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February 23, 2014
It appears my first official for-real review appeared on
Amazon.com Books, a 5-Star write-up from dear longtime friend Mama Liberty, who
admits she hasn't even read my book yet but she is certainly familiar with my
work.
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February 23, 2014
First Entry on Selected Salvos Blog
I was poking around online and discovered a profile I had written for a Google Blogger blog back in June 2006.
But I abandoned it after creating the profile and never launched the blog. Still, I somehow managed to garner 1010 profile views over the years.
Since I just published my first book, "Selected Salvos from the Loose Cannon Libertarian" I decided to launch this blog as a place to talk about it.
Unfortunately I couldn't find any way to translate the old profile into a new blog so I've had to start anew.
But here's the old profile. Very different than the one the current Blogger went out and pulled off the net for me. I like my old one better:
Garry Reed
On Blogger since June 2006
Profile views - 1010
My blogs
About me
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My standard mini-bio, until
something better comes along: Garry Reed is a freelance writer. His articles
have appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the LP News, Miss Karrer's
Fifth Grade composition scrapbook, and his own website called The Loose
Cannon Libertarian.
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When
you open your eyes underwater, do you ever worry that you'll drown?
No, I just wonder how I can get a job that pays me to write
these incredibly stupid and irrelevant Random Questions.
