It is all coming together

I am feeling great.  I just finished almost the last outstanding items on my to do list for the cookbook.  I can’t believe when I look at that dog eared pile of papers on the table that I have been using to proofread that I am this close to completing the book.  I just finished logging on and setting up my ISBN number.  I just finished setting up my account with the publisher, and now just have to sign the agreements and email them back to them tomorrow.  I have selected the size of the book and even calculated the width of the spine and the weight of the book, 282 grams if you are wondering.  Not too heavy to carry around with you all the time no matter when you go, great for a night on the town or light reading on the beach!  Seriously, I can’t believe it is all coming together.  I can’t believe it.  Seriously, it really hasn’t hit me yet that in a few weeks I will be a published cookbook author with his own publishing business and getting ready to sell it to anyone who is interested. Oh don’t think I won’t be urging you all to put a link to the cookbook in any status lines you have on any social media, like Facebook or MySpace and hoping that you will tell all your friends and family that it is finally released.  But mostly I am in shock that this is really happening.  Normally I am too wordy for my own good but honestly I am speechless to describe how this feels right now.  The achievement is in sight and I can hardly believe it.  I know there will be more work ahead of me but to get to this point already is amazing to me, the struggles, the set backs, the fights with myself not be lazy, the urging I always received from my guy and his support.  This will be his success as much as mine.  He got me here, despite me getting in the way most of the time.  The night is still early so I am going to do some more editing but I wish you could see it already.  The pictures are ready, the text is ready, the publisher is ready, all just waiting for me to say I am done!