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I recently received a gifted audiobook from a dear friend and successful indie author.
In the process of clearing out my office for a fresh start to the new year, I decided to upload the CDs to my hard drive so I can put them on my iphone to have with me to listen to while I travel, as it's looking like 2016 is going to be busy busy.
And I came upon the single most frustrating thing I have found in using audiobooks:
The CDs were not formatted with author information, book ttitle, genres, or CD number.
So I got to sort out which was which.
It takes a fair amount of time to do this. Time I didn't want to lose - I'm too excited to "read" the actual book!
So my first writing tip of 2016 is this: If you do an audio version of your book, FORMAT THE CDs. And upload yourself to online databases like itunes so it updates any changes in the description you may make at a later date.
Hope this helps!
Love,
Rachel
In the process of clearing out my office for a fresh start to the new year, I decided to upload the CDs to my hard drive so I can put them on my iphone to have with me to listen to while I travel, as it's looking like 2016 is going to be busy busy.
And I came upon the single most frustrating thing I have found in using audiobooks:
The CDs were not formatted with author information, book ttitle, genres, or CD number.
So I got to sort out which was which.
It takes a fair amount of time to do this. Time I didn't want to lose - I'm too excited to "read" the actual book!
So my first writing tip of 2016 is this: If you do an audio version of your book, FORMAT THE CDs. And upload yourself to online databases like itunes so it updates any changes in the description you may make at a later date.
Hope this helps!
Love,
Rachel
My book Hacking the Earthship is finally available!!
Hacking the Earthship: In Search of an
HAPPY SPRING!
We didn't have a lick of funding to make it happen, but with perseverance, awesome investment support from pre-orders, and the AMAZEBALLS help from our co-authors, all 390 pages of full-color design goodness is finally ready!!!
Hacking the Earthship: In Search of an
Earth-Shelter that works for EveryBody
is ready to purchase!
Just click on the logo beneath the version you want to buy!
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Rachel Preston Prinz is an architecturally-trained American designer, preservationist, documentary filmmaker, and artist working in sustainability and architectural engagement. She graduated with a Masters of Architecture and Certificate in Preservation from Texas A&M in 1998. After working in traditional architectural firms for more than 10 years, Rachel started Archinia in 2007 so that she could live her dream of promoting the craft of architecture and the Genius Loci, or Spirit of Place, especially pertaining to U.S. Southern, Mountain, and Southwest indigenous, vernacular, and modern design.
Despite having gone partially blind, Rachel has served as a preservation commissioner in Taos, as the host of the UNM-Taos Sustainability Institute, and as co-host of TEDxABQWomen. She has won the Echoing Green Work on Purpose challenge and has been named a Green Guardian. Rachel has given multiple TEDx and Pecha Kucha talks on modern applications of vernacular design and critical regionalism, landscape preservation, pattern languages, and photography and Epicureanism. She has given presentations, tours, and lectures and written nearly a hundred articles integrating archaeology, architecture, place, culture, and emerging trends in sustainability.
In 2016, Rachel was named one of Albuquerque Business First magazine's 30 "Women of Influence". She was also invited into the "Emerging Social Sector Leaders" cohort at the Santa Fe Community Foundation for her groundbreaking work promoting the craft of architecture through her hybrid firm comprised of the for-profit organization Archinia and the non-profit Architecture for EveryBody. Rachel's preservation and sustainability work has been featured on HGTV’s “You Live in WHAT?”; Bravo's "Untying the Knot"; NMPBS’ “Colores!”; “Home made” on Canadian PBS; and she’s been a featured guest on radio and television, including CBS Radio Women’s Media Center live with Robin Morgan, Women’s Focus, New Mexico PBS, PBS, CBS, Good Morning Vail, and KUNM. An emerging leader in the field of sustainability, Rachel’s been written about in Prime Your Mind For Confidence; Bermuda Quest; The Girls Guide To Swagger; and Accessing Intuition: Stories from Architects and Designers.
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notes from my work journal that I thought I should remember...
"On a personal note, the meeting at Acoma today meeting was REALLY special for me personally because one, I FELT the lightning when I looked at the etched windows... I was struck by it once several years ago while driving and I KNEW what that window was long before Emerson told me because I felt its essence move through me again (just not in the "have I been shot?" kindof way like before, but in the gentle remembering way), and that was very magical.
I also realized in one of the conversations with the Acoma grandmothers that some of the things I thought I had lost out on, being a white girl from a family whose lines were erased by choice, I really hadn't. As Marilyn and Prudy described their grandmothers teaching them traditions and telling stories, I realized that my (Eastern Band Cherokee) grandmother had actually taught me some of the same things - telling stories as she taught me to make "alabama cornbread" which, somehow until that very moment, I had not put together was really her version of fry bread! So I felt "at home" with them, and I am so thankful that it worked out the way it did. I honestly had no idea what I was going to be so deeply affected and reconnect to my own family/people/Source."
I love when I am awed.
"On a personal note, the meeting at Acoma today meeting was REALLY special for me personally because one, I FELT the lightning when I looked at the etched windows... I was struck by it once several years ago while driving and I KNEW what that window was long before Emerson told me because I felt its essence move through me again (just not in the "have I been shot?" kindof way like before, but in the gentle remembering way), and that was very magical.
I also realized in one of the conversations with the Acoma grandmothers that some of the things I thought I had lost out on, being a white girl from a family whose lines were erased by choice, I really hadn't. As Marilyn and Prudy described their grandmothers teaching them traditions and telling stories, I realized that my (Eastern Band Cherokee) grandmother had actually taught me some of the same things - telling stories as she taught me to make "alabama cornbread" which, somehow until that very moment, I had not put together was really her version of fry bread! So I felt "at home" with them, and I am so thankful that it worked out the way it did. I honestly had no idea what I was going to be so deeply affected and reconnect to my own family/people/Source."
I love when I am awed.
Some days Swagger is something I want and do not have. It’s something to aspire to. Something that I can use to find my way back to center. Like a light in the darkness.
Some days I am so far out of my comfort zone that nothing seems possible. I don’t know where to begin, let alone where I am going. Like now.
I have embarked on the biggest, most bodacious project I have ever attempted. I’ve invested my savings, my time, and my heart into a project… that forces me to face my limitations… every single day. Where I was once just an architect and historic preservationist, I am now also attempting to develop and produce a public television show and multimedia education portal about architecture, archaeology, and sustainability for the people of the American Southwest,
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