A new day; A new week!

I am going to take Sally's advice and try to focus on the positive this week :-). Getting started is always hard, but once you get a feel for what you want to do, things seem to fall into place pretty well. It's not like this is the first thing I have ever written for god's sake.

I decided this morning, after getting an email for my dean, that presenting my topic and research (though it's not complete, well, or started yet) might be a good place to begin. I am sitting here preparing a conference proposal for SEWSA (The Southeast Women's Studies Association). The focus of SEWSA's conference this year is gender and sustainability - WOW, right down my alley! So, I have outlined the presentation to include a brief history of CAFTA, the affects of CAFTA on Central American Coffee Farmer's, our (Greener Groundz Coffee Roasters) connection with Gun Sanpaul, our coffee importer who was in the peace corp in Central American working with coffee farmer's, and our quest to create a small, female-owned business using 100% fair trade/organic coffees that support social justice in Central America. Well, it dawned on me that I was yet one step closer to an outline and focus for this book. That's exactly the format I would like to use!

So, there you have it! I think this is a great start to the week. I am gathering my resources to write both the proposal for the conference and the intro to my book.

I also signed up for a publisher search that gives you the names of publishers who would most closely match your needs and mostly likely publish your finished product. They give you a realistic review of what you can expect given your topic and your experience - sounds fair enough, huh? They paired me up with 4 publishers I have never heard of any of them but I researched the companies and found that Wheatmark seemed the most suited for me. So, I downloaded their publishing information packet! Away we go....!