Wednesday, June 8, 2011

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

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