Dawn Judd - Author

This one is not Eternal. I know I promised that one first, but I had a project come up that I needed to do. This project was 20 years in the making.  When my daughter was 9 years old she wrote a story about her toy dinosaurs. I then took her out and took pictures of her and her dinosaurs and did some editing on my computer to make them look bigger than her. Once I got the pictures back and put her story on it and gave it to her. About 3 years ago I came across the pictures and I thought when that make a great children's book. I wanted to surprise her for Christmas that year but I didn't have anyone to illustrate the book and I didn't feel too confident in my own artwork even though I do really good artwork. So I put it off for a little while and then talk to my other daughter and she agreed to do it. Unfortunately life happens and she was unable to work on it for me. So I put it off again. Then a few months ago I came across some art tools and played with them and realized ...

 I'm sure some of you are wondering where I went. I was so excited about working on Eternal and getting it finished and then crickets. Well, I have a really good excuse. My daughter just got married, and the last few months have really taken up my time as I was helping her prepare for the wedding.  I worked extra hours so as to have enough money to cover expenses and whatever free time I had, I use to help her with whatever needed to be done.  While I'm sure those of you who are waiting for this book to come out or not excited about that, I am excited to say that the wedding was beautiful and it was worth all the hard work we put into it. Now that that's over with, I'm hoping to get back to work on the book. However, I will warn you all, I also have a new grandbaby on the way. But I promise I will continue to keep working on my manuscript.

 I hit 46,000 words today.  I'm so close to being done with the second draft.  I CAN'T wait!!!!  I have my beta readers lined up.  I still need to contact my editor.  I'm really hoping this will be ready to send to the publisher by the end of June.  

 Before I start, I just want to say that this is not set in stone yet. A lot of things have to happen first.  I've been talking to the founder of KAP and some of the other authors that are members.  I am thinking about going back for the fall faire.  It's been six years since I last attended.  They invite me every year, but there's a lot that needs to happen for me to go.  First off, it's an eight hour drive.  I don't do so well in the car these days.  My nerve damage is at an all time high, and some of my medications make driving a nightmare.  But I'm willing to try to do it if I can work everything else out.  I work every other weekend at my job, and with my current schedule the weekend of the faire just so happens to be the weekend I'm supposed to work.  I will have used up all of my PTO by then, so the only way to get that weekend off is to be able to trade days with my coworkers.  One of my coworkers did say she would trad...

 A few weeks back I realized that the manuscript to My Zombie Body was not in any of my drives, nor was it saved on my computer anywhere.  I began to panic, thinking I accidentally deleted it somehow.  It's been a while since I worked on it, so I couldn't remember which drive it would've even been in.  The next day it occurred to me that I never actually typed it out on the computer.  The whole thing was handwritten in a notebook.  Even more panic, because I had no idea where that notebook was.  I even remembered that at the time I was writing it, I had taken it into my office to start typing it, but had to go do something else.  When I finally had time to go work on it, I couldn't find it.  My office is also my craft room, so things get moved around in there all the time.  Now, it's been well over a year since it disappeared and it's never turned up, so I was beginning to think maybe the notebook got thrown out, or packed away in a box ...

If You Love a Book Author and Want to Help Them ...18 Ways to Help a Book Author You Love Eileen Flanagan, author of The Wisdom to Know the Difference , wrote a blog post about a year ago telling friends of book authors how they could help the author sell more books.  Here are some of the highlights of her help list, along with comments from some other authors, providing a few more ways that friends can help book authors to sell more books. If you have a friend who is a book author, please use these suggestions to help them out. If you are a book author, please share this page with your friends (so they can help you out). 1. Buy your friend's book. Encourage other friends to buy the book. Go to your local library or bookstore and encourage them to buy the book. Buy books as gifts. 2. Don't put off buying the book. Don't wait for the holidays to buy the book as a gift. First, the sooner you buy, the more confidence you'll inspire in your friend. Second, media and other...

 I have started the process of adding the new covers to my kindle titles.  KDP has approved them, but currently when you go to Amazon, they are still showing the old covers.  I will not be updating the covers to the paperback book until the store is redone in third person. Naturally, I won't be working on that until I've finished the final edit of Eternal and have sent that over for publication. (Soon, I hope!)  I will also be working on making a hardcover edition as well, but again, not until the rewrite is done.  I will post again when all the changes have been processed and are available on Amazon.  I will also be ordering copies when the new versions are ready, so autographed copies will also be available.