Vennie Anderson was born and raised in Southern Illinois. A retired R.N., she graduated from the Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing in 1967. She earned a B.A. degree from Eastern Illinois University, an M.S. from Southern Illinois University, and a B.S.N. from McKendree College. She worked in various health care settings and wrote many educational materials. The final thirteen years of her nursing career she worked for the Department of Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center in Marion, Illinois. While there she received an award for Excellence in Nursing. After retirement, she traveled, including trips to Alaska, China, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, and Antarctica. She has one daughter from her first marriage. Birthing A Book is Anderson’s fourth book. Her first book, The First Year: Coping Widowhood, was published by Outskirts Press in 2021. The Shanty Irishman and the Lady and Nursing Shorts: Stories About Being A Nurse By A Nurse were published by Xlibris, also in 2021. Anderson resides in Crestview, Florida, with her floofy ginger tomcat, Tinker.
Birthing A Book
by Vennie Anderson
Birthing A Book
by Vennie Anderson
Published Feb 23, 2022
111 Pages
Genre: SELF-HELP / Creativity
Book Details
Essential for First-time Authors!
Have you always wanted to write a book? Have you written a book and aren’t sure what to do with it? Are you an avid reader, interested in how people write books and get them published? Birthing A Book is a humorous, fascinating look at the ins and outs of writing and self-publishing by someone who’s been in the trenches. Anderson describes her journey as a novice author from deciding to write a book, The First Year: Coping With Widowhood, to writing it, choosing a self-publisher, and going through the demands of publishing. She found herself comparing the experience with having a baby. This idea intrigued her, and she was inspired to write another book all about the writing and publishing processes—hence the title. What began as a sort of diary of writing and publishing her first book evolved into something more. Using the periods of downtime during publication, Anderson began working on additional writing projects, one of which became another book. Frustrated with her publisher’s complicated software, she sought a different publisher for the new book. That decision effectively took her out of the frying pan into the fire! Ultimately, Anderson restructured and revised Birthing A Book into two parts, the first dealing with the writing and publishing of The First Year: Coping With Widowhood. The second part became a combination of a cautionary tale and a mini-manual on writing, choosing a self-publisher, and keeping it all organized.
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