Hello. I'm known as Kj. My husband and I started writing during COVID. We write from the heart and from our experience. We are looking forward to publishing our first book very soon. We have plans for several other books: some already written, some in the process, and some in the early development. We hope to continue this through our retirement. We like fishing, supporting our community and enjoying life.

I'm in the early stages of creating a non-fiction book. My goal is to provide historical achievements by African Americans that usually get overlooked. My problem is the format which I want to use. I want to have several short chapters with several different figures. I don't want to write a biography on them, just their contribution to history, I want the motivate the audience into digging deeper on figures they may have never been exposed to. My question is, would the best format be more like a story or more like a history book because that will dictate what information I seek out and how i should form it. I've only written college essays, so I still don't understand how a book and an essay are different/same. Are citations written the same? The format written the same?

Greetings to all, my name is Shawn. I'm 57 years old and live in Jacksonville Florida. i served 22 years in the Army followed by a short stint as a property manager for single soldier barracks and a stint as a security guard. I'm divorced and live with my younger sister who needs a caretaker following a dozen strokes over the past two years. I went back to school and earned my history degree last June (2024) since I won't be leaving the house to work I figure that I could do research and writing from home. My focus is to discover the vast achievements of marginalized people and write those experiences. I hate 'Black History Month'' because it has dissolved into recognizing a dozen names in history when there is so much more that has earned being memorialized and not forgotten. Anyway, no real hobbies anymore though I spent the past 18 months teaching myself how to cook and history reading. So, I look forward to interacting with everyone.

Almost there! Hoping to get to #1 in Rome travel with my stragglers from the launch team today!

Hello fellow authors. I am looking forward to walking in the motto- Self-publish and succeed. I am working on book 2, Soaring Above the Solvable Worries of Life, and preparing to get out there and push for a successful 2025. Glad to be in the community with you. Pressing on...