Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Musings for June 1, 2026.
In April’s blog I wrote about, ‘what comes next’. I might have found what actions needed to be taken, with the mound of paper work, binders of images and files in general, that I managed to create with each and every book that I had published. Just taking a step back for a moment, I found that when working with the more than 200 images you need to have per book, that knowing how many images, and where they would be placed could be very over whelming to work with and keep straight. I decided to make a ‘mock book’ in the form of binders, where page protecters were used for each page needed, and in those pages images could be places and moved around when necessary to give me a complete look as to what I would need and what I might still be missing. I was able to number my pages and then when my images were placed, numbered the images, something very important that Arcadia insists upon.
Next came the container of file folders that I managed to collect full of information, images, contact information for individuals that were involved with the making of the books. These file boxes would hold advertising images, and anything that connected to the book I had been working on. So now what do I do with all this material, for the books that had already been published, did it still have value, but to anyone else but me?
Having finished these books, and not sure if I will write another, my thoughts turned to, what do I do with all this material, that I had acquired? In talking with the librarian, Stacie, at the Community Archives of the Kezar Library in Romeo, I was saying that I wondered if the Macomb County Library in Mt Clemens would want the material from my first three local history books, with me giving the same material from my lighthouse books to the Lighthouse Association in Mackinac. She asked me, why wasn’t I giving the material to them? All of the seven books! I guess I hadn’t thought it had any value, except to myself, because it showed all the work and commitment I had put into each and every book. To say I was overwhelmed and honored would be an understatement. The collection would be listed under my own name, that in itself, being a very humbling experience.
So what was next? Putting these files and binders in a manageable order. So three containers down, only four more to go! Now what do I do with all the shelving that was used to store this material?
On that ‘wee note’ till next month, Monday July 6, 2026.
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