Books, Banter, & Beyond - 28 Books and Counting with Emily Camp
Episode notes
Can a book be faith-filled and real? Emily Camp thinks so, and she's been proving it for 13 years.
This week on Books, Banter & Beyond, Donna sits down with Emily Camp, a TikTok friend and indie author of young adult and new adult mysteries and romances. She has 28 published books, and every one of them is fade to black. Emily talks about why her teen characters with real faith and real problems didn't fit at a traditional publisher, Christian or secular. She also shares the story of a novel she wrote in high school, inspired by The Outsiders, which still sits in the folder she handed her freshman English teacher 33 years ago.
Donna and Emily also get honest about the ups and downs of TikTok Live, why your editor needs to be brutally honest with you, and the snack Emily can't live without. (Bring her blue Jolly Ranchers at your next signing.)
In this episode:
Why Emily chose indie publishing for gritty, faith-based teen fiction
Young adult vs. new adult, and keeping romance closed door
Where to start with her 28 books: the Canbrook series, What Is Hidden, Torn Apart, and the Falling series
Her favorite of her own books, and her most popular one, Obsessed
TikTok Live as her main marketing tool, and why YouTube Shorts get her more views than TikTok
Her writing process: pantsing, writing a "purge on the page" draft, and drafting each book in both first and third person
The best advice she's ever gotten: you can't edit a blank page
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