The Cheapest Vacation You Can Buy

Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy -- Charlaine Harris

I took a mental vacation this past few weeks. I'd just completed two non-fiction books in a row. One I'd worked on for two years, since it's a training manual for a 16 week program for Hiking and Nordic Walking training. I had to test all the protocols and take all the video and photos upon which the book was built. It ended up being 340 pages, 88 photo illustrations > 120 spreadsheets.

Summit Success: Training for Hiking, Mountaineering, and Peak Bagging

While working on that I created a webinar based on my training and goal setting protocols from my 5th place finish at Elbrus Race 2013, which used the skills and techniques I learned training for my unsuccessful attempt at Elbrus Race 2010. The webinar was such a hit, with my highest attendance and best reviews that I created an enhance and expanded edition with double the content. While writing the script for it I realized that it would make an excellent book in the self-help time management genre.

Finding Time to Train

And to relax after all of that, which resulted in two paperback and Kindle books being published in a ten day period, I opened up an old fiction project about a post-apocalyptic dystopian world where the preppers had managed to survive and form loose bands of civilization. To make it an even more interesting world, I added in some young adult relationship angst. Not sure what genre it should be, but it looks like it's going to be a hat trick for me - published in the next week.

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