Regina Yuill

I'm Regina Yuill, the genealogy enthusiast in my family and author of Preparing

to Write and Publish Your Book: Tips and Tricks for the Writer. My concept

for a family history book began many years ago after several genealogy

adventures with my mother. After adding more genealogy records to my

mother's genealogy collection (which she had started in 1948), I began to wonder

how we were going to preserve all the genealogy records and family knowledge

we had gathered.

Little did I realize the daunting project I was about to begin. I had limited

experience with preparing indexes, table of contents, footnotes, endnotes,

photographs and plain old writing techniques. So I decided to attend genealogy

society meetings and national genealogy conferences to learn more about the

writing and publishing process. However, as I soon discovered, there was a lack

of writing and publishing guidebooks geared towards genealogists and family

historians. Despite this, I decided to jump in with both feet forward and published

my first family history book in 2005.

And as any proud author would do, I'm always happy to show my book to fellow

genealogists in the hopes that I can encourage them to preserve their own family

history by also writing a book. I'm a firm believer in the preservation of history

and have given lectures explaining tips and tricks on writing and publishing a

book.

Even with these lectures, I realized that many genealogists were still struggling

with their writing and publishing projects. So, I decided to write Preparing to

Write and Publish Your Book: Tips and Tricks for the Writer, which explains

the tips and tricks I used in preparing my own book. I hope my book will make

the writing and publishing process easier as you prepare your own family history

book.

Good luck, have fun and I hope you succeed in publishing a family history book

for others to enjoy