Morgan James

So just small steps, you know, moving forward in one space and stepping out of another space kind of, you know, got me to where I am today, which, you know, I just founded Brooks Storyhouse, which is my editing company.

I'm a production manager for Morgan James Publishing Company.

And I'm still writing my book.

My next book comes out in October 13th, 2026, A Girl in the Water.

That could be the time consuming thing is waiting.

So, you know, just always, you know, reach out to people, make sure you're using verified sites, make sure you're using companies that are well established.

With my publishing company, Morgan James Publishing, we have a list of preferred editors that we give to our authors so we know that they're using the right people because they're There are a lot of editors out there that will claim they can edit and there's no, there's no like certification.

Like, you know, when you go to a doctor and you see like their, their degree on the wall, there's no like editing degree that we can put on our wall, right? It's all, you know, experience and it's all mentorship and it's, you know, maybe you have an editor that had a degree in English lit or something like that, but there's no editing degree.

Terry is a prolific author of more than 60 books.

He's a highly sought-after book proposal consultant, and he is also acquisitions editor at Morgan James Publishing.

He's seen both sides of the desk as the creator of the IP and the executive deciding which assets are worth the publisher's investment.

Terry, welcome to Behind the Numbers.

Make sense?

Yeah, they absolutely are.

And I talk to authors all the time, Dave, and so I had a prospective Morgan James author that asked me, I mean, I've written this biography about Billy Graham that came out in November of And he said, well, how's your Billy Graham book selling? And I'm like, well, that's a good question.

I don't even look at those numbers.