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Indie Author Day at Hutchinson Library 2016

- October 07, 2016

This event wasn't quite what we thought it was. When they invited us, they made it seem like we were presenting to readers. It was actually them presenting their writing tools to us, trying to tell us that as indie authors we weren't good enough. So what we mostly got out of it was networking with other indie authors. And I got to hang out with some of my KAP authors outside of KAP.

Indie Author Day

- October 03, 2016

While I am sad that we did not have the Authors Pavilion at the Ren Faire this year, I am excited to say that several of us will be attending Indie Author Day in Hutchinson. Stop out and join us!! (And don't worry, the Authors Pavilion will be back in the spring!!)

Dawn Judd grew up in a small town in South Dakota. Her creative streak began early in life, with a love of all things artistic. She loved drawing and painting, and spent most of her school years in art classes. Poetry was another love, but one she kept to herself, with the exception of two of her favorites, which were later published in anthologies. She stayed in South Dakota until she moved to Chicago at the age of twenty-one. She spent the next several years as a military wife, and moved from one state to the next until she found herself living in Kansas. It was there that she discovered the love of writing stories and wrote a handful of short stories for her own personal collection. In 2007, she began work on Reining In, a story of the Network, an organization created to protect 5,000 year old vampire, Khalida. Although she didn't originally intend for it to be published, encouragement from friends, family and fellow authors convinced her to share it with the world. In 2009, Reining In was her first novel to be published. It was soon followed by Phantom Rising, a continuation of the Network saga. Soon after, she founded the Breakout Books page on facebook, which was followed up by Breakout Books Reviews, a book review blog. She used both sites as a way to promote her fellow authors. Breakout Books has grown to over 700 members and is still holding strong.