Connecting with the Audience - Brenda Chapman

Question: What do you remember about the first time you read your crime fiction work in progress or finished novel/short story to an audience?
My first novel was a young adult mystery entitled Running Scared, which pretty much sums up how I felt reading from my own work in front of those first young audiences. I'd worked as a special education teacher, but somehow, presenting my own writing was more daunting than working from a curriculum that somebody else had devised.

I cannot remember the ex...