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Ignite wrote: "... fom moe wods.."

Wow! When I read that out loud I realised people have already dopped the 'r'. I've head them on the steets

Heading people on the streets is normal in Yorkshire, I hear

Except David is heaing them on the steets of yokshie

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Except David is heaing them on the steets of yokshie"

well you would, wouldn't you

Will wrote: "Heading people on the streets is normal in Yorkshire, I hear"

Isn't that Glasgow?

Them too?

And in the rougher parts of Dublin.

David. You're not writing. I shall get my waggy finger out!

I thought it was david needed to get his finger out?

Just seen the final version of the cover (front & back)for The Showing. Whoot!

I got several fingers out (I type quicker that way) and got on with some writing. Don't want to get on the wrong side of Ignite.

I imagine it's rather exciting Will. Allas I can only imagine :(

Incidentally, David, have you got yourself a website yet?

I haven't got one yet, Will. I should look into it I guess. Yours looks great by the way. Some look so amateurish and if I did have one I'd want it to look professional.

Love the cover art too!

My website is free, with weebly. The only thing I've paid for is the domain name, 25 quid for 2 years. It was really easy to do, too.

It makes promoting a lot easier.

Did you do it yourself Will! If so I'm even more impressed. And I bow before you, sir

I'd like to boast, but honestly it was really easy.

Weebly is very, very user friendly.

And there was me being all Japanese

Well, don't forget the Japanese read and write backwards.

GL would be able to type thst backwards, coming from Ireland, but it's beyond my skillset

Two five star - Ignite reviewed - fantasy books (containing magic, wizard type people, dragons, dragon trainers, tiny people, swords, made-up critters, etc.) in a real world setting, with believable characters (definitely no vampires or werewolves), some romance, some quest, and written in such a way that those who think they don't like fantasy will certainly enjoy reading it (based on a survey of at least ten non-fantasy readers. . .

*pauses for breath*

. . . no that's it: for more, read the books.



http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fuel-to-the-F...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rulers-Desire...

Thanks, Adam. Thought I'd go for something a little less formal.

How you getting along on here?

With you on that. Not actually added them as such, yet, but they're there nonetheless. So many good indi books around.

Just finished the final re-draft of my third book, as yet untitled. It's been shelved for two years as I like to read my writing cold, with fresh eyes. I'd forgotten the ending and really enjoyed it myself. Can't wait to get it out there, but a serious edit now for typos etc.

David wrote: "Just finished the final re-draft of my third book, as yet untitled. It's been shelved for two years as I like to read my writing cold, with fresh eyes. ..."

I think you're absolutely right about reading your writing cold. It's the best way to edit

Indeed, but 2 years seems a long time to me.

I agree, but I didn't leave it for two years intentionally. Struggling to get an agent or publisher, rather than try over and over, I got on with writing other stories. I only discovered it was possible to self-publish on kindle in November, so I'm going back to stories I already have written, giving them a polish and an edit, and finally getting them out there.

Wow, two years is a long time. I bet it helped though and isn't it great when you read your own book and like it. I think I write about as inefficiently as is possible. Am currently writing the same scene several times because I can't quite decide which one will work best. I suspect this is the kind of conundrum a break would fix but I've tried it and the characters are doing my head in. Phnark.

Cheers

MTM

Hey,MT. If I get into that situation, I make a note of the scene and move on with the story. Sometimes the progress of the story helps me decide. If not at least you can read it back with it being tepid if not cold.

That sounds like an excellent idea. Right now, what's happening is that things are cropping up and then other decisions change. I think I've almost got all three plot strands off to a credible start and that's usually the major battle, once that happens, they can interact credibly and the rest falls into place... It's eating brain power though. It's really hard to concentrate on the Real World. Then again, being interrupted with things like dates we have to go to places or organising the minutia of every day life is like someone trying to 'diarise' with you while you're in labour. You just want the real world to fuck off for a bit so you can get on with what you're doing.

I'm sorry, I'm hijacking your thread but I'm wondering, do you - or anyone else reading - ever get that?

Your not hijacking my thread, it's great to come on here and find other members around, especially Gumbees.

Nice to know some of my feedback is considered good advice (I only know what works for me). I get interuptions all the time, and can only get down to any decent writing when the house is empty (not very often).

Just a quick update to anyone who cares to take a look on my author thread to say I will have a new fantasy coming out soon (just a last proof-read and cover design to finalise). For anyone who has read and enjoyed "Fuel to the Fire" and "Ruler's Desire", I am currently planning for a third book in the series.

Ohh, goodie! And of course, anything else your little mind can conjure. I'm up for it!

Looks like I have some decisions to make then!

Sounds great, I'll look forward to it. You know how crap I am, I won't get round to reading it for about 3 years but I will read it... eventually.

Cheers

MTM

Can't say I'm any better MT. My list of to read grows by a book a week, and I'm lucky if I manage to read a chapter a day.

Finished the cover for my third book, a fantasy of 110,000 words, which may or may not become a new series.

Top stuff. I am crap at design so I have to get people who know what they're doing to design my covers for me... to my exacting specifications.

As for the current W.I.P. I wish I had time to shelve it but I don't. I thought I'd sorted it, decided I hadn't and now a complication has cropped up and think it might work out after all. All I can do is finish it and see.

Cheers

MTM

Is That the question you posed on the gumbee thread, I looked in but too late to comment

Nah, the plot problem is that Fred wants to be crowned ruler of x under the old system (even thought he rules it already) but if gets to rule y as well before he gets crowned he has world domination and why does he want to get crowned. I think I can get out of that if he's decided he wants to come here, kill us and start some kind of brave new world in our version of reality... he may think that being crowned will give him some kind of power, I'm working on that or at least trying to without it sounding too like the Force. He knows it's science though, so I suspect he thinks it will open up new vistas to him.

I think I'll only really know if it works when I write it.

I think I would have to read some of the story to get my head round it. The book I have coming out next has some interstellar travel with some time loss for the traveller (others age by a few days while they don't). Still trying to understand it myself even though I wrote it, so I may have got it wrong.

David wrote: "I think I would have to read some of the story to get my head round it. The book I have coming out next has some interstellar travel with some time loss for the traveller (others age by a few days ..."

For what it's worth, I reckon there's no 'wrong' in a story if you're consistent with the rules you make up.

Cheers

MTM

David wrote: "I think I would have to read some of the story to get my head round it. The book I have coming out next has some interstellar travel with some time loss for the traveller (others age by a few days ..."

I still want someone to write a book where the reader doesn't age, no matter how long the book...

Tim wrote: "David wrote: "I think I would have to read some of the story to get my head round it. The book I have coming out next has some interstellar travel with some time loss for the traveller (others age ..."

I'd read it, again and again and again and again! Phnark.

Nice one Tim. I've read books where I'm young for the time I'm reading them.

Hello, I'm here to get you sorted out :o)

I just searched for the book and your cover is there! You didn't need me at all :o)

Who can say they don't need a Disney Diva? So you can see the picture? Maybe I didn't wait long enough :P

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce that my next novel "Alloria" (a fantasy of 110,000 words) is close to completion and will be available some time in March. I've posted it on Goodreads, and apparently some of you are able to see the cover. For some reason I cannot, so I'm trusting to faith that it's uploaded ok.

Were I as clever as some others out there I'd figure out how to place it in this thread, but I'm obviously not, and so I haven't :o(

I can offer blurb, however, and here it is:

Perhaps the night they celebrated Alloria’s tenth birthday was not the correct time for Thomas and Bessy Merryweather to reveal that they were not actually her parents. Perhaps they should have told her years before how they discovered her in the cellar of their cottage, bare-footed and clutching under her arm a rag-doll she called Saphjrina. Perhaps they shouldn’t have hidden away for seven years the amulet she had around her neck, with the promise of gifting it back to her when she reached the age of ten. Had they told her sooner, had they told her when she was less spirited, she may not have ventured into the cellar with her friend Nat and discovered how the amulet opened up a mysterious labyrinth. Had they kept it from her altogether, their lives would not be in danger; their lives may not have, but the plight of an entire planet would have been.

Alloria - how about that then! and I'm a granny!

Can you still not see the cover yourself, David?

No, Jud, I just see a blank narrow rectangular box with the book title in it :o(

Weird, maybe email goodreads about it? There's a help forum somewhere as well