Monday, January 28, 2013

Big Thanks To The Beta Readers: Rewrites Start Tomorrow

First I want to thank the beta-readers for taking the time and reading our story. And a big thank you for the feedback. My co-writer J.D. and I went over them all the last few nights and have mapped out and are outlining the changes we are going to make. We knew what some of it was going to be but wanted to hear the reactions from the readers.
One of the changes is going to be more scenes and chapters involving the Olympians. They were a big hit with the readers and every beta reader wants to read more with them involved. So we heard you and we are going to oblige your requests.
We are also going to change the prologue and may just start with a chapter and bring the story from there, we are going to write both beginnings that we discussed and see which one fits our particular story.
We also know some didn't like two of the characters and we are rewriting their profiles and will adjust their scenes according to their new profile.
As far as making it longer, it will undoubtedly be longer, but I think it will still stay a novella, just a longer then usual one. With these changes, it will bring automatic changes to book two which has already been started. We still will have chapter one of book two at the end of book one as a teaser.
As far as a time frame, we are still looking at the dates we had discussed earlier. We knew we wold be doing rewrites so this hasn't changed the time frame at all.
Once again thank you for those that were beta readers, and thank you to those that have been reading my blog.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Pilgrimage of Angels is with the beta readers

I haven't written a blog post in a little while, and I really need to get better at this, but a lot has been going on and decided to fill everyone in.
My co-writer and editor J.D. Rice, you should check out his blog at
http://unscriptednarration.wordpress.com/
he writes some great flash fiction besides his own stores, is receiving the feedback from our beta group for the first of hopefully many stories to follow the "Of Angles and Olympians" series. As many of you know the first book is called "Pilgrimage of Angels".
Well anyway JD is getting the feedback and we will be going over the suggestions that are made and see what we agree with and what we like and incorporate or change what we feel will make it a better story and more interesting for you, the reader, to enjoy it more.  This is going to be a big year for me as far as writing goes, and I know it is also going to be for JD. I will, after talking it over with JD, probably post the cover art in the next few weeks, I came up with the idea and format for it and JD has been kind enough to let me run with it, so in closing thanks to the beta readers, and to my buddy JD, and  a special thank you to everyone that reads this.