By Jennifer Bowen on Saturday, January 30th, 2016 in BookHive Corp. No Comments
I gave up my to-do lists three months ago. I wrote about that decision here. Paralyzed by my perfectionist approach with BookHive, workaholic tendencies, and staggered by my third failed IVF attempt — I was in a desirous state to let go. I discovered pretty instant results. Maybe I had a sense of the treacherous […]
By Jennifer Bowen on Saturday, January 30th, 2016 in BookHive Corp. No Comments
My mother met Kate Waite last year and first told me about her inspirational story which resulted in her writing the book Beauty Unfolding which was published by Morgan James last year. Personally, I’ve been reading the book and have found a lot of nuggets of wisdom. My interview below with Kate covers her process, […]
By Jennifer Bowen on Monday, January 18th, 2016 in BookHive Corp. No Comments
I know Fay Wolf back from the college acting school days when we’d run around barefoot and feel our feelings in a Boston classroom. Today, Fay is still being creative and my eye caught the title of her first non-fiction book – New Order: A Decluttering Handbook For Creative Folks (And Everyone Else). The subject […]
By Jennifer Bowen on Thursday, January 14th, 2016 in BookHive Corp. No Comments
I soft launched BookHive about a year and a half ago. We do beta reader research for authors with Fiction, YA/Middle Grade and Memoir manuscripts. I’ve learned a lot about what makes a great beta reader and am still learning. Our results for each testing are a 35+ page report full of feedback, both qualitative […]
By Jennifer Bowen on Friday, January 8th, 2016 in BookHive Corp. No Comments
BookHive tested Leisl Kabbery’s second book in her YA series Titanian Chronicles, and I’ve since been super impressed by her ability to promote and connect with other authors, especially on social media. The book we tested Ormnhi Moon, is being released this month. Leisl was one of BookHive’s authors-of-the-month and a favorite of our beta […]
By Jennifer Bowen on Monday, January 4th, 2016 in BookHive Corp. No Comments
I met Derek Bergman at the fiction writers conference weekend at the New York Writers Workshop (a great, informative resource to check out – www.newyorkwritersworkshop.com) We tested his book (then titled Lost and Found) six months ago. Then he came back to BookHive, incorporated some of the changes from the testing, renamed it Edge of […]