Josephite Harvest Article Follow Up

I wrote a number of articles in the Summer edition of The Josephite Harvest, one of which detailed how one church in Baltimore City helped its community recover during the unrest that followed Freddie Grey's death. In the Fall edition of the Harvest, I wrote a follow up story of that church, and what has taken place in the neighborhood since then.

Click the link below to check out my article on pages 18-19.

Josephite Harvest Fall Edition

                 

Baltimore Book Festival--Done and DONE!

I had a good time at the Baltimore Book Festival this past weekend. I was able to sell some copies of my book (always a good thing!), but more importantly, I was able to do a lot of networking. Meeting other authors and us being able to share our knowledge and experiences writing and publishing was invaluable.

The first day of the festival was a bit slow, at least in the area where the Author's Tent was located. For some reason we were away from where most of the crowd was--I unfortunately didn't realize this until the event was winding down for the day since I couldn't leave my table. Hopefully this is something that will be noted by the organizers when they recap the event!





The following day was much busier as expected since it was Saturday. I was only there for about four hours, but was able to do more in that time than I did on Friday frankly, likely due to the bigger crowd and also because I was in a different location with the Black Writer's Guild.



All in all, it was a good experience, meeting other authors and having complete strangers take a chance on me by purchasing copies of my book--encouraging and humbling at the same time! I was a bit shy about it all in the beginning since it was my first book festival, but I got comfortable by Saturday. I'm definitely looking forward to the next one! :)