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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Readying for release

I am getting ready for release of The Karma Stone, and also moving forward on Face the Music. I will be heading on a trip to visit some friends and hope to have copies to take with me. A labor of love, it is still somewhat like giving birth, there is still that pain irregardless of how the end product makes you feel.

I am also completed the re-editing of Pplintered: Sierra's Legacy, stabilizing the time line, and adding a few extra scenes. Already for sale, I will update the re-release. I am hoping to have all three completed and out there at the same time so that my readers will have something to choose from for extra reading. Along with The Christmas Star, part of a Christmas Antrhology, Christmas Lites, I will have four works available. I am already looking at further work and should have something new beginning this fall.

The work is interesting, and I am enjoying the way the words fall together. I am ready to get these in print and e-book and on to the next.

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Have a wonderful day.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Book Covers and more edits


While waiting on my book to be through the contest, I have been looking a pictures for the cover. They will be somewhere along this line. I will be posting my choices soon, and hope to get some feed back from my readers. Due to the dark nature of the book, the pictures may follow that direction as well.

In the meantime, I am also working on edits of Splintered: Sierra's Legacy. I have gottern through several chapters and will upload and re-release when it is complete. I will be looking for reviewers at that time and will be sending out requests.

The reviewing world is a difficult one, there are so many authors looking for reviews, it is more difficult to get them now. You have to catch the eye of the reader, and connect in some way. I am looking forward to getting back into the swing, and ready to move forward. I will also be considering another installment of the Karma Stone, as I have had some requests, and will move forward on the rest of the Splintered World Series.

2 days more before the first faze of the contest is completed. Hope to make it through, but if not will re-submit next year. In the meantime, the book will move forward, I will just have to build a stronger pitch, the book speaks for itself. .

Monday, February 4, 2013

Editing Surprises and growth

I have been editing Splintered for the last few days and what I find is invigorating. I have grown and can see the errors so much more clearly. I have a few paragraphs that I told the story instead of showing and I found I could make the episodes involved so much more telling by tweaking a few words. I believe it really helps to step away for a time, we authors become entirely to fond of our characters and are not able to clearly characterize them without the distance. At least I have found that to be so here.  I remember now why I was so smitten and and excited to bring Sierra and her crew into the updated fantasy she deserves. I believe within a month I will be close to complete and will re-introduce the work with an updated time-line, Chapter headers, and a few or scenes. I appreciate your patience and enjoy your time. I smile as I think about moving forward on this project, it makes me want to mover foreword on the sequel.

The Karma Stone, as you know has been entered in the ABNA contest, but I already have Beta Readers asking me to write it as a series. I will certainly think along those directions, but the darkness of the telling takes a lot out of me. I will look for the next story to fit in, it is set up for such a direction should I so choose.


Thanks,

Leslie Ann Wright