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Tada! It’s called “Keri on Driving.”

300,000 printed, and that’s the circulation number, not the readership :D

It was a rush, seeing my name and words I’d written all printed down the page.

Click to read it on the 24 Hours site; they have a clear PDF you can zoom in on, page 18.

I’m proud of my first one, I like it. Thanks for the emails from you guys saying so too, and nice to meet you!

I was beside myself all day. 30 seconds after my eyes opened, I was out the door to the closest orange box. I ripped out that one and carried it around with me all day in my purse. It’s still in there.

My hand position here belies the butterflies in my stomach.

Now the trick is to keep it going, quality every week, learning to write well under that under-the-gun-all-eyes-on feeling.

I tried to give myself a head start. I’ve kept a list in my phone of car article ideas forever, I have 40. This was me last weekend organizing them. Next week we’ll talk about pedestrians, and something else.

Of course I blurred out the printing, otherwise you too would have good car article ideas.

I tried to collect copies all day, went looking on a walk last night, I ended with up only three. The Sun circulates.

I’ll link up my articles here on KeriBlog every time, and pumped to be a part of the team, Sun Newspaper!

Back to ‘Keri on Driving’ – Index

Starting tomorrow, I’ll have a regular 300-word column about car culture for Sun Media, specifically the paper 24 Hours Toronto, their automotive site AutoNet, and potentially in Sun publications across Canada.

I’ll be writing about car culture. Topics like: how to make fast sharp turns safely; pedestrians need to back up; go for a lazy drive down to Cherry Beach because, when was the last time you did?

Best parts about this:

1 – I’m paid to write about something I blogged & videod for 5 years: I love driving

2 – my email is published at the bottom of each article

3 – I made a blog make money

Meet my editor Joe Duarte, and welcome to my blog, Joe!

We met at Honda’s First Ever Manual Driving School. He emailed that I almost hit him, I replied eye roll, he emailed back the below photo.

This photo is funny, and proves nothing.

This will be my profile pic for now, until their official photographer can book me in. Which thankfully is not this week because omg look at my hair. No don’t.

Taken while waiting in the lobby. Is this happening?

Am I signing this? I won’t have full control of something.

I’m most excited to see my name in print,

**in ink, on paper, to hold it in real life.**

You can blog and blog and video and blog, and no matter how much you make, you can never hold it.

1 – my celebratory burger & beer
2 -I’ve been concerned about making the adjustment from blog writing to print writing, and seeing this made me feel better, “totes”
3 – this too. I had that exact Fiesta in the spring. I can do this.

Let’s DO this!