Beyond the Bookery | About BtB and Our Founding

Hi! It's Abigail here... sharing a bit about the face and mission behind Beyond the Bookery.

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I've been writing, blogging, and whatnot since I was 15, I've dabbled in graphic design and photography since I was able to see Momma working on either since I was 6 and I would "work" myself, but I really started doing graphic design and such seriously when I started blogging.

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Beyond the Bookery is the meeting of my two dreams, The Bookery Boutique, and my small press, CDXC Aurora Lux Libri Publishing.

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Something I've dreamed of for years, both an online store and a small press.

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You see, I remember sitting on the floor, Mom's laptop in front of me, setting up my first blog after doing school. I had a notebook, pens, and another notebook for writing beside me. I was thinking about how I'm going to be horrible at this, but this is going to be so much fun!

I couldn't write, I didn't know anything about blogging.

All I knew was that I loved following indie authors and they inspired me to start writing and blogging.

I tried and failed NaNoWriMo that year, I had my neon green pen, my pink and purple pens, and possibly a red pen, I was armed with the craziest spy thriller with 13 siblings in a royal family from a fictional country. I failed then.

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But that wasn't the end. It was nowhere near the end! 

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With my having published a novella, and a short story in an anthology for another small press, I was talking one day with my friend, M. L. Milligan, about hosting an anthology together. Here we are now!

 

It happened so fast, it was so much fun, and I really felt like it was time to start really thinking about doing a small press. Not long after Seize the Night was published and we were working on Seize the Love after lots of prayers, talking over so many things, and a crazy story later came the start of Beyond the Bookery.