Blue View – Publishing Your Own Book – Pt. 1

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Blue View – Publishing Your Own Book – Pt. 1

Whether you’ve just finished writing the ‘Great American Novel’, a collection of travel vignettes, or a compilation of old family recipes, you may want to take the next step; put it into book form and publish it. Maybe you’re hoping that it will become the next NY Times bestseller or maybe you just want to send copies to friends and family – in either case, the process isn’t that expensive or that difficult. Here’s how we do it…

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Blue View – What's Coming in 2019

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Blue View – What's Coming in 2019

It's a new year with lots of new (and maybe not so new) resolutions and plans. During the couple of weeks we took off from blog writing, we had time to plan out the year. It also gave me time to think about Blue View topics for the upcoming months. Here are a few of the things in the works.

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Thames Path – Oxford to Newbridge to Lechlade

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Thames Path – Oxford to Newbridge to Lechlade

Rain, rain, rain! We’ve definitely been beating the odds for rain in England this time of year, but it was bound to catch up with us. We were most thankful for our rain gear. The further we walked from Oxford, the less traffic noise we heard. Sirens and car horns faded away. We walked through wet, muddy meadows and fields, greeted by black-faced, long-tailed sheep and Angus cows.

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