Wednesday, January 14, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Clouds
remain as
Kitzhaber
begins
fourth term
By Jonathan J. Cooper
Associated Press
SALEM (AP) — Gov.
John Kitzhaber enters his
fourth term Monday with
the dark clouds of his third
lingering.
After a largely successful
start to his second stint in the
governor’s office, Kitzhaber
hit setbacks with the trou-
bled Cover Oregon health
insurance exchange and rev-
elations about his fiancée’s
personal life and business
arrangements.
When he gives the inau-
gural address Monday, he’ll
lay out a vision for the next
four years and try to turn the
corner. It won’t be easy.
In the coming months, a
state ethics commission could
rule on whether Kitzhaber’s
fiancee, Cylvia Hayes,
broke the law with her busi-
ness arrangements. And the
Legislature will likely vote
to dismantle Cover Oregon,
the failed health insurance
exchange that was supposed
to be one of Kitzhaber’s sig-
nature accomplishments.
Of a certain age...
By Diane Goble
Columnist
Yay! My book is finally in
print. Do you have any idea
what it takes to get a book
into a finished product these
days when you do every-
thing yourself? Publishers
don’t want anything to do
with you unless you have
an agent, and agents won’t
return your calls unless
you’re already a best-selling
author, so self-publishing is
the alternative for wannabe
authors, unless you can pay
someone to do it for you.
Even if you could find a
willing publisher, they still
expect the author to do the
marketing and buy their own
books so why not do it all
yourself anyway? It gives
the author more control, too.
But, OMG, who knew
it was going to take me 10
months to actually birth the
thing? I produced babies in
less time!
I started this process in
May thinking I’d have the
editing, proofreading, for-
matting and cover ready to
upload to the online POD
(print-on-demand) book
printer by the end of sum-
mer. You can probably sense
how smoothly that went!
I’d actually written this
text 10 years earlier and
it’s been available as an
e-book under a different title
for several years. I felt the
urge to have it in print and
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to make it into a workbook
because that’s really the kind
of book it is. When I re-read
the content I realized I had to
update it and add a section I
didn’t put in the e-book ver-
sion. So I decided to make
the print book a second edi-
tion, revised, and to give it a
different title.
This required a lot of
shifting around of text and
a change of chapter order,
which led to a lot of typos
and sentence fragments so
editing took forever. Then
because I typed it in Word,
it had to be transferred into
InDesign and because I don’t
know InDesign, someone did
it for me then couldn’t con-
tinue and I had to find some-
one else, and that person
decided it would be easier to
format the document accord-
ing to book specs herself
than to teach me how... and
that took months because I
kept finding so many errors
caused by the Word-to-
two-different-versions-of-
InDesign transfers.
The same thing happened
with the cover. One graph-
ics friend came up with the
front cover design pretty
quickly but then wasn’t
available when I was ready
to work on the back cover
and spine width calculations
so the other friend who was
doing the text volunteered.
She also has her own design
business going on so she
worked on my job as she
could.
In the meantime, I had to
keep moving my release date
goals on my blog and web-
site where I was letting peo-
ple know about the book’s
progress to build up interest.
I think my first projected
date was September 15, then
I’d add another 30 days and
30 days later, add another 30
days. It was actually released
January 1.
Is that the end of this
story? No. Now I’m strug-
gling with Amazon.com try-
ing to figure out how to do all
the things the author needs
to do to get their page up
and take advantage of what
Amazon offers authors for
marketing purposes. I know
they think it’s simple, but it’s
giving me a headache! Still
can’t figure out the Inside
the Book thing and they
don’t offer customer service
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on weekends. What’s up
with that? I’ve come to hate
weekends. Everything grinds
to a halt for two days. This is
not a 9-to-5 job!
Also along the way, I’ve
been forced to learn social
networking as a market-
ing tool. I still have no idea
when I send something out
on Facebook or Twitter who
sees it or how some of the
things I get find their way to
my desktop. I can’t wait for
my grandchildren to learn
this stuff so they can do it
for me and I can get onto my
next book.
So I thought I’d like to
start an authors’ support
group to share tips and sto-
ries and help each other
figure our way through this
self-publishing and mar-
keting maze. It’s too much
for one person to do alone,
along with continually hav-
ing to learn new software
and new ways of getting
published and marketing
our books online. Volunteer
editors, proofreaders and
reviewers are welcome to
join us. Contact me if you’re
interested at dianegoble@
mac.com.
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LETTER FROM SISTERS CITY HALL
In an effort to better engage the public and keep the public informed, every two weeks in this
space you will fi nd information about what is happening in Sisters from the City’s perspective —
projects that are underway, how they are progressing, ideas the Council is considering and general
updates. We want to do our very best to keep you informed.
Here’s what’s going on in Sisters:
City Council Three councilors were sworn in at the January 8 City Council meeting.
Returning Councilor David Asson and newcomer Nancy Connolly will serve four-year
terms while returning Councilor Wendy Holzman will serve a two-year term. They join
Council members McKibben Womack and Chris Frye. New Council leadership was elect-
ed, with Chris Frye to serve as Mayor for a two-year term. McKibben Womack was elected
to continue as Council President for an additional two years. Appointments were also made
to the various intergovernmental agencies Council members serve on as representatives of
the City.
Chamber of Commerce Building The building that houses the Chamber of Commerce
is in the midst of a facelift. Hardwood fl oors were recently installed by Public Works staff
and so was commercial lighting. Next on the list will be interior paint. Drop by and admire
the improvements.
Joint Meeting The City Council and City Parks Advisory Board (CPAB) will be hold-
ing a joint workshop to discuss Creekside Overnight Park once a mutually agreeable date
has been set. Prior to the joint workshop, the Council will have a workshop to review the
data collected on the park and receive a briefi ng on what has been covered in previous
CPAB meetings.
Urban Renewal Grants The City will again begin accepting urban renewal grant ap-
plications from interested businesses located in the Urban Renewal District. Grants will be
for façade improvements. Look for further details to follow.
Winter Lights The winter snowfl ake lights have been such a hit with businesses, com-
munity members, and tourists that the City has decided to leave them up a little longer to
brighten our short days and long nights. They will stay up until sometime in February.
As always, if you have questions or concerns about anything going on in the City of Sisters, please
contact one of your City Councilors (their contact information is available on the City website,
www.ci.sisters.or.us) or City Hall at 541-549-6022.