Exciting Announcement

I have started working on a new LDS Fingerstyle Guitar book featuring 75 more hymns (including ALL of the Christmas songs from the hymn book), and I'm thinking of using my wife's recent picture of the St. George temple on the cover. The process of putting a music book together is quite involved. It will likely require several months of intense work and then a lot of waiting before it will be available for sale.

I love arranging hymns, and each of my books is a labor of love. I'm excited about this one for several reasons. First, it features some great songs that I didn't have room to include in my last book. Second, I've learned a lot about the publishing process and believe it will go more smoothly this time. Third, I'm going to make these arrangements even easier to play (without sacrificing quality).

Here is a behind the scenes look at my process:

1. Choose hymns (complete)
2. Create a base Sibelius template for each arrangement (complete)
3. Create front material and table of contents (complete)
4. Create draft arrangement of each hymn (in progress)
5. Finalize each arrangement
6. Add fingering and chord diagrams
7. Prepare cover art
8. Paginate book and send draft manuscript to printer
9. Review printed copy and make adjustments
10. Send final copy to printer
11. Create practice tracks
12. Update web site
13. Send final book to distributor

I'll post periodic progress updates and announce a release date as it gets closer to completion!