Off to get opinions.

I've finally finished the edit!  I have sent out a few copies to friends, and one off to my poor editor to pour red ink all over the pages.  I hope to get it back in a few days with some notes.  So far it's looking like I will be posting the book on the Amazon Kindle store and on the B&N nook.  I hope to have it out soon.  The series will be titled "Prey for Vengeance".  The working title for the first book is "The Price of Young Love".  I'll post here when it is officially out.  When the book is ready for release I will post a sample chapter here on the blog so you can get a sneak peak.

Still editing

So I am about half way through final revisions of the book.  I have been quite dogged in this experience.  I have found it strange how my usual procrastinated nature has been subdued in the face of this project.  Most of the time I tend to get side tracked on new projects, but even with me doing the 2 Lazy 2 B Otaku podcast, I have been able to keep up with the shows I need to watch to review and still keep pounding out the edit. 
        I think I have found the process of editing, irritating as it is, is far more preferable to the marketing that I will have to plunge through to get the book e-published.  I don't relish the time I will need to start trying to alert people to the book.  I haven't firmly embraced the social media sites yet, and I fear that I am going to have to wade into it, doing my best not to get swarmed by spammers.
        If nothing else, I can finally cross writing a book off my bucket list.  The pride I feel of bringing something into the world of my own creation gives me a feeling that is unmatched by any other experience.  I can't wait to bring this work to the masses and hope that I can reach people with the story I am still crafting.

Chris Dodson

Editing my first book.

First post no presure,

      I am about halfway through editing my first book.  It's been a long time coming.  The working title is "The Price of Young Love."  I'd like to keep the "Price" theme going as the series continues.  Prey for my Vengence is the name of the series that the book starts.  This series started out as one novel, but soon just kept blossoming into a juggernaut.  This first book started as a five page forward if that gives you any kind of idea how much effort this undertaking has worn on me.  I started somewhere around November, 2010.  The problem I kept running into while going back over my first draft, was the gross vagueness I employed, and knew that I was throwing away good stories in throw away exposition. 
       How did I get started you might ask.  A friend of mine requested that I help him take a couple of his characters created for a pen and paper game and work them into a web comic.  Sadly I have never been much of a comic reader.  We reached a compromise with me writing a novel, and he could adapt it into a web comic.  This started the war of words that were rattling around in my head.
      I hope to release "The Price of Young Love" by the end of summer, but as this is my first time writing a book, I wish to send it out to several people whose opinions I trust before I finish the final draft.  I will do my best to release the book in iTunes, Amazon Kindle, and any other market I can find for ebooks.  The price hasn't be set, but I am looking at a lower scale for first time self published authors.  I will have a English Major who will graduate the end of this year, to edit the book, and I trust his judment and expect him to dump red ink all over it.  I hope you take a chance on a first time author and I will publish more about the story in future posts.
Thank you in advance for your patronage.
Chris Dodson