We open a vein and pour our blood into our stories. Not something we can help. If we don’t put everything in it, the story won’t possess readers. This is all, slightly, romantic and all, but there’s a down-side. We can become defensive to criticism. My book has gone through beta readers, my publisher, an…
This past week was the first time my employer/publisher, Aubey LLC, exhibited at BookExpo America. We were super excited when we arrived on Wednesday to set up our booth, especially when we saw our company name. We got to see the exhibit hall before opening day. It was awesome seeing BEA behind the scenes. The…
My mother, Deborah Johnson, published her first book! Awesomeness. It’s called Finding Me…Again?-a poetry book/autobiography. It’s amazing and I’ve never been into poetry like that. She self-published it through CreateSpace. When she got the print version in the mail, she told me she mauled the packaging. Wished I could’ve seen that. It had to have…
My beta readers gave me some great comments. Since I have a better understanding of where my series is going, I’m editing my first novel differently this time around. If I come across a pivotal scene, I make a note of it as reference for the series. This book brought up a lot of questions. I’m writing them down…
