Showing posts with label reader feedback. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reader feedback. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

I have fantasy, sci-fi, and horror plots running around. I'm still working on the other novels, but they don't qualify for the writing contest I'm doing, so....


hmmm.... I wrote a short story about a woman and a dragon that needs to be a full story. It would be an epic adventure. Her birth father kills the only father she's ever known and wants to kill her if she won't fall under his rule. She is a mage by birthright through her mother and a warrior by instincts and training. It's quite an interesting premis, but may be harder to write than starting from scratch. I posted it on Fan story last year and had some good feed back. Many wanted to hear more.

The sci fi is something that started as a dream, much like Rebellion on Piza 7. People disappearing, foreign animals, worm holes to Earth guarded by reptilian sentries, political intrigue are the basis here. Lots of meat for this one.

My horror story is a little different, although my husband says it sounds similar to a book he's read. A man, a writer, buys an antique desk for his work, he usually works pencil to paper for first draft before using laptop. One day his wife is frustrating him and he tells her to get lost, and she's never seen again. It takes him a long time to figure out she's missing.

The police look at him but don't seriously consider him a suspect until other people around him start going missing and others are wounded or killed that he has altercations with. We have, romance, guilt, violence, mind bends, mystery, rags to riches, and a touch of the fantastical. Lots of meat on all three of my books. No wonder I can't decide which should be the one to write for November. And, of course, I'll be writing on my other books as I'm stumped on the one I'm writing for this contest. at 3k a day thats 90k for the month and I need 50k+ for the contest. I can do it! :D

Have a good day!

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Rebellion on Piza 7

Thank you to everyone who has bought a book! I've said it before, and I'll probably say it again. Especially as a new author, it's exciting to know people have actually picked it up. some of you have told me you have ordered, but my guess is that there's more who've ordered and not said much. Post comments about the book here, after any blog I post. I'd love some feed back. Also, I'm at a cruz. I've changed my mind about a couple of things and the second book is likely to be longer. This one was just over 71k words. The next one will be 80-90k words, easy.

What I'd like from the readers, is ideas about who they want to know more about? Who tickled their fance so to speak, and now you want more information. Background, maybe bigger part in whole, or who did you hate? What did you like best about it?

I'm struggling to keep the next book as exciting or better than the first. As a reader, I know how disappointing it is if the second book flops. Maybe I'm putting too much pressure on myself, but I want the best book, and a new book, not a repeat of the first. You know what I mean?

Blood Traitors is proving to be tricky, but it's setting up for the final book in what has turned into a trilogy. Never fear. The story resolves itself, but you will want to read more. :)