She’s Here!!!
It’s THE EDUCATION OF DIXIE DUPREE Release Day!
I sincerely appreciate your support, thoughtful comments and shared excitement throughout the last 19 months. Thank you from me, and from Dixie.
This is a collage of moments, pictures to capture my journey to publication:
It all began here…(notice who’s website is up…I’d forgot about her other background)
A lot of time was spent here, working at Nortel, going back to school to get my degree, writing THE EDUCATION OF DIXIE DUPREE until…in March of 2012…
AGENT!
But, the writing continued…below are the completed manuscripts of THE EDUCATION OF DIXIE DUPREE, THE REDEMPTION OF TRUITT AMES, and A BLACK WATER SEASON <– the manuscript that would eventually affect my path to publication. (–>BLACK WATER was the ms actually on submission when it was passed on, but the lovely editor who would become my editor asked to see something else. Note to writers – always have a back up.)
Meanwhile, life changing events happened…I lost “my girls” in late 2012, and my father in early 2015…
Just when I really needed things to look up, in April 2015, THE EDUCATION OF DIXIE DUPREE sold to
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And the process begins. I received this package from my lovely editor.
And, after the editing was done, including not only revisions, but copy editing, the book cover was designed by the awesome Art Department at Kensington, a cover we ALL loved. Then, along came the ARC’s, like Christmas in the Spring!
I began to do the First Sentence Friday’s in the early summer 2016, when publication was still months away. Feedback from the Sales Department indicated booksellers wanted the title of the book highlighted, so the Art Department came up with this design, which we loved even more.
Meanwhile, publicity was working hard to get the word out, and boy did they. I found out I’d been invited to the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) a huge trade show for booksellers, sales, and authors. It was G.R.E.A.T.!
And in the meantime, the work between everyone from Marketing, to Sales to Publicity was paying off, when THE EDUCATION OF DIXIE DUPREE started receiving recognition.
And now?
She’s in your hands, dear readers.
I hope you’ll fall in love with my brave little heroine, Dixie Dupree.
Drop me a line …let me know your thoughts!
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