Socci Books Publishing blog

The Socci Books Publishing blog contains bits and pieces of commentary based on the wook-writing process and interesting observations associated with Amanda’s books-in-progress. While some of the information may be outdated, the blog serves as a great historical tool to capture Amanda’s thoughts exactly as she was going through certain things

Future blog posts as well as the Socci Books e-newsletter will highlight current progress and future publishing projects.

Tracking Progress on Dance and a Recent Heartbreak
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Tracking Progress on Dance and a Recent Heartbreak

While the Socci family is working on multiple book writing projects simultaneously, it makes sense for us to start adding...
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Celebrating the Concept of “Short Books”
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Celebrating the Concept of “Short Books”

Amanda had been swishing around the idea of writing a book and publishing it for a long time, sort of...
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So many updates! Titles, Descriptions. Book Covers
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So many updates! Titles, Descriptions. Book Covers

We are often apt to get frustrated because things are not going as quickly as we hope. The fire to...
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New Book Writing Project Underway

We can barely believe all that has transpired in the last 2.5 weeks. If you read our blog post from...
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Abrupt Change in Plans
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Abrupt Change in Plans

In a move that makes no sense to anyone except Amanda, Amanda decided to briefly pause work on her current...
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Serious Website Revamp
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Serious Website Revamp

In the last few days, we spent the bulk of our time working with WordPress to find another theme and...
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Follow Us!
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Follow Us!

Cool animated clip, isn't it? Socci Books is unlike anything you may have seen. We are a family of four:...
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Guess what? I’m not related to a Dictator after all. Hooray!
faith-based memoir

Guess what? I’m not related to a Dictator after all. Hooray!

On day ten, which was yesterday, I wrote the final punctuation of my faith story involving my Latino and “Italian”...
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The Cringe Factor is a Useful Tool
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The Cringe Factor is a Useful Tool

The more I take away from my book, the clearer I’m seeing my book come to life.  It is like...
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Old Stories, new Titles
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Old Stories, new Titles

I am continuing on my path of reviewing faith stories I had written back in 2012. I love reliving my...
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Clarifying my Book Plan Vision
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Clarifying my Book Plan Vision

Progress on my faith-based memoir has been a bit strange for the last two weeks. I noticed I’ve done less...
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Rejecting a Faith Story from the Book
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Rejecting a Faith Story from the Book

As I have been plugging away working on the faith stories I want to include in my book, I made...
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Creating Specific Categories and Inventing Good versus Bad Faith Stories
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Creating Specific Categories and Inventing Good versus Bad Faith Stories

I can’t even begin to say how enthusiastic I am right now. I’ve really taken this book writing plan to...
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Spending two weeks solid on the Introduction
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Spending two weeks solid on the Introduction

I sort of do feel bad for not updating this website or the accompanying Instagram profile more frequently. I’m well...
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Writing Introduction to “Transformed” Memoir
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Writing Introduction to “Transformed” Memoir

I had been jumping around with my writing projects for a while, seemingly chasing after creative leads that take me...
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Writing contest for kids
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Writing contest for kids

One of our parenting groups shared a link that interested me. I learned that our local public access television station...
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Launching on Palm Sunday
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Launching on Palm Sunday

If you would have told me twenty years ago or even as recent as a year ago that we would...
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