My blogging friend, AJC from 7million7years, has launched a new site called 7m7y. There, he will choose 7 Millionaires in Training.

YOU could be one of them!

Money Hacks: 7 Millionaires in 7 Years!

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Yes, you read that right: The Books. I think I'll be writing several eBooks rather than just one. One book with all the material I'm planning to write about would weigh more than The Phone Book (I know, it's an eBook so it weighs nothing, but you get my point -- it would be long).

So here's the idea: I will write an eBook on each of the following topics, maybe more. Each eBook will cost between $5 and $10. Buy multiples in the series, get a discount. Buy the whole series, get a bigger discount.

Topics

• Earning
• Spending
• Saving
• Preserving
• Investing
• Multiplying

In my initial post, Your Money Is Your Life, The Book, I talked about writing a book on all of those things. Now, due to a slight change in strategy (really, practicality), I am calling this

(get ready)

(wait for it)

Your Money Is Your Life, The Book Series

I may choose to publish out of order. For example, I may finish the Investing book before I finish the Earning book. Odds are, I'll make whatever I've finished available. It doesn't matter, though. Each book will be able to stand on its own.

I'm still working through the toolset I'll be using to publish the eBooks. I haven't made any progress whatsoever on the writing instrument. A typewriter seems as good as Google Docs and Zoho Writer. Seriously. They both suck. Word on a flash drive might be the way to go, with electronic storage on Box.net or something like that. I'm not really sure yet. The idea, of course, is to be able to create and edit virtually anywhere (where there's a web connection, of course!) and the only way to do that is via an online tool. I don't want to be a slave to a flash drive, but I also don't want to be stuck when I don't have internet access.

But I digress.

If you have any thoughts on any of the above, I'd like to hear them. Leave me a comment or email me at billspaced at money-hacks dot com.

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I've been using Microsoft Word forever, and before that, Wordstar (yeah, long time ago). I thought I'd try something new, so I embarked on using one of the online, "webby" tools, like Zoho Writer or Google Docs.

I don't like either, but for very different reasons. Zoho is feature-rich, but clunky. Google Docs is pretty sparse and it doesn't work in some environments (not sure whether it's the firewall or something else). Should I go back to Word or should I just grunt it out and use Docs with a portable drive for writing on the road? I suppose I could always use Blogger...

And since I'll be publishing the book, Your Money Is Your Life, in eBook format, what tools converts to such easiest?

What do you suggest? What tool or tools do you use?

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Like every other financial blogger, I am writing a book. It is to be called "Your Money Is Your Life." The site, Your Money Is Your Life, will serve several purposes, the first of which is to chronicle my authorship of the book. It will serve as a diary about how things are going with respect to the book's development.

Secondly, this site will serve to sell and promote the book. Yes, sell it. I'm being blunt. If you don't buy stuff, go to my other financial blog, Money Hacks. There, you will find a plethora of articles about personal finance covering the gamut from earning more money, spending it more wisely, preserving it once you get it, and growing it.

Thirdly, Your Money Is Your Life, the web site, will serve to link to other really great books -- books that have already been written and books that are being written. I will use this forum to recommend books that have helped me through the years. Additionally, it is here where I will lend support to my fellow bloggers also writing books. I will offer links, recommendations, advice, and general support. It may serve as an affiliate site, in a sense, where I sell others' books while I write my own.

I don't expect daily entries here, but perhaps once or twice a week, with the occasional shout-out to my friends also writing books. I think there's enough of a market for the type of stuff I write about so that we can all prosper without crowding each other out.

I will say that I expect my book to be published in eBook format, for around $10. The plan is that this is the first of many. There's so much to cover in the personal finance area that a 20-volume encyclopedia might not suffice. Further, changes in the economy, the culture, and the tax code, among hundreds of other possible changes, will always allow new material to enter into this broad market place.

The really cool thing about blogging about personal finance is the fact that I can post information as it becomes available. So, too, can I do the same with eBooks. No need to republish to paper when I can simply type some edits, or add to an existing volume, and republish electronically.

So publishing electronically will allow me to keep you abreast of changes that take place in a much more rapid way than if I simply published to paper.

Are you with me? I hope that this endeavor brings all of us a little closer to the financial stability and stature that we so richly deserve.

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