I’ve hinted in a few posts that I have a book deal.  I’m actually working on a couple of them.  The book right at the forefront is a tax book for businesses.  I also am working on a possible 2-3 book series colloboration with a well known author, that will be in conjunction with a large company.  Plus, I’m kicking around another collaborative project on the changing ways to make money in the Information Age.  

I still kick around a book I want to do that’s more just for me.  It’s the story of the 3 months I spent in Juarez while we finalized the adoption of David.  I think I need to get it on paper just to get it out of my head, as much as anything.  It was a very intense time of my life.  At one point, David and I were questioned by AFI (MX’s version of the FBI) because we were picked up in an Al Queda sweep.  No kidding.  It was a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Nothing came of it, but it was the closest I’ve ever been to thinking I wasn’t going to get out of something alive.  That’s just one story.  There are so many others.  And now with the closing of David’s old orphanage and a new mystery, there is a second chapter.  See!  I know I have to write this story because I can go on and on about it.  I need to get it out of my head!

Each project would have a different strategy for publishing and promotion.  There are so many options these days.  I think I’m going to go a quasi-self publishing route with Morgan James.  Google them.  They have an innovative approach.  The series will go to a regular publisher because the large company giving us access to their database pretty much insists on it.  The 3rd collaborative book is too new to tell. And the final personal book will probably be a free e-book.  I can’t figure out a back end on it and if anything, it’s more written as insight into living in Mexico, adopting a child from a foreign country and just in general how tough it is to run an orphanage in a developing nation.

Is it a B-I project?  I think so.  Books are really promotional devices.  They are the ultimate business cards, building instant credibility.  Imagine using the Internet and some of the strategies that Rob Fore is going to teach at the October Tax Strategy Camp to build up even more exposure.  It’s a brave new world out there.