Hello Everyone, I hope all is well with you. No complaints here in my neck of the woods. Yesterday, hubby watched the boys while I checked out the West Virginia Book Festival. This was the first year I attended the event and boy oh boy, I sure didn't know what I was missing. The civic center spilled over with writers and publishers from all over the state. I met Rick Robinson, author of Manifest Destiny (political fiction). His book was a finalist in the Indie Excellence Book Awards. Rick was very personable and clearly knew his way around the publishing industry. He even gave me his e-mail address in case I had questions about the business. I bought a copy of his book and though I'm only a couple of chapters in, so far it's pretty interesting. A review will follow after I'm done. I also won a full manuscript edit from Michael Knost, local editor and author of Writers Workshop of Horror. We discussed the rewrite of the first chapter of my book and I