Have you ever gone to the bookstore like Chapters or Barnes and Nobles and was hoping to find the book you needed? Mine was a book on learning how to rent out your cottage in Canada.  I bought a cottage in 2013 and wanted to rent it out to make extra money when I wasn’t using it, which wasn’t often. I loved being at my cute little cottage.

I search Chapters, local libraries, and through dozens of websites and found a few books about owning a cottage, but nothing really on how to rent it, what the rules are, and how to make money from it, where to advertise. After a few months, I didn’t find the book I was looking for.

I really wanted or rather needed to rent my cottage to help pay the mortgage, but all the information out there was all over the place and, I was getting frustrated.  After doing all the research I thought to myself “if I’m searching for this information, maybe someone else is too?”.  I thought about creating a website and linking to all the pages I found so people would be able to find it quickly.  Then, I stumbled on this book Get Paid for Who You Are by David Wood. It’s old, but the concept is still valuable today. He gave me the idea to write a book about what I know. And that’s when I decided to write my first book  Turn Your Cottage Into Money: How to rent your cottage and make a profit in Ontario and Quebec. However, that was just the first part. Next came how to get it published. I searched online on how to publish a book. I didn’t want to go the traditional publishing root because they take longer and they own the rights to my book! No thanks! I came across a course on creating and self-publish journals and get them on Amazon. I thought “wouldn’t that be the same thing as publishing a book?” I also thought “I am always writing in journals, so why not create my own and make money instead of giving my money away”. So, I signed up to learn about self-publishing and created my first journal and have been creating them for myself and clients since 2013.