World's Worst Edited Novel

World's worst edited book. If you have ever wanted to read the world's worst edited book, look no further than a book that was edited by its own author. You will have to resist screaming at misplaced commas, dangling participles, run ons, fragments, misspellings, and much worse. It is a horror story without even having an ounce of blood within its pages.

My novel, Child of Galina, is one of these lucky books that can be called the worst, merely because I was too poor and too stubborn at the time of self-publishing to have someone else do the editing work for me. I decided that I could do it. Surely, I, the self same young woman who passed all her English, grammar, and editing classes with As and would have had better grades had the grading scale invented a new letter to signify those with above par skills and shining red pens ready to mar the words of her fellow peers' hard work and writings.

But alas, when you are editing your own, you only see the things that are meant to be there, you don't notice the misplaced comma that was added when you were up at 3:00 a.m. stale coffee breath steaming up the laptop screen when that one scene just had to be finished before your brain would let you rest, get some sleep, oh sleep, how the bed called you, but your brain would.not.shut.UP! 3:00 a.m. writings result in a lot,  and I mean A LOT of grammar mistakes. And you wont' see them because this book is your beautiful baby that you have carried with you for x amount of years while you grew it and cultured it, and even allowed it a little room to play without restrictions upon the laws of the world that it was set in. Some of those moments were left unrecorded and that is for the better, as the public, who is already rejecting the fact that your book is the worst edited in the world, would truly reject those playful moments when your story turned upon itself and you reached in straightened things out and hoped no one else would know for the better.

So if you enjoy mocking misplaced commas and the occasional your instead of you're, then you should check out my book, Child of Galina, the story comes from my heart, the editing, well not so much.

Character Profile: Captain Faryl

I'm going to do some character profiles on the secondary characters from Child of Galina. I'm doing this to help open up the world of Galina to the readers a little bit more.

Captain Faryl:

Age: Unknown, guessed to be around 30 the first time he meets David Bahzro.
Race: Dreymew
Physical Description: Nearly 6 feet tall, mostly covered in tawny colored fur, human torso with a mane around the face instead of hair. Legs are those of a lion accompanied by a tail that can alert others to the inner feelings of the Dreymew. Like most Dreymews, Faryl became a soldier as it is their nature to fight.
Characteristics: Loyal, Fighter, Brave, Strong, Forgiving with time

Captain Faryl is highly thought of within the Dreymew community and beyond it. He is ruthless in his training of the soldiers beneath him, but it is for their own good. He wants his soldiers to always be on the ready for it may mean their lives if they are not trained properly. Faryl is loyal to the Bahzro family due to Keila's kindness towards him and his Dreymew bretheran.

Child of Galina in Paperback

I've finally finished proofing and fixing the formatting issues with the paperback version of Child of Galina. It is now available on Amazon.com and on Barnes & Noble's website. If you want to buy it at your local bookstore ask them and see if they are willing to order it in for you!

I'm really excited about this next step in my novel and I've got to get started on figuring out the marketing aspect of everything. Any tips? Please share them with me!

Prefer to get Child of Galina on the Kindle? Go to http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C90G8DM

Child of Galina and the Missing Image

Published Child of Galina on the Kindle last night. Everything looked good in the preview, but after viewing it on the Kindle it appears that the image at the end of chapter one is missing. I will be working on fixing this glitch, but in the meantime for those of you who are looking for the image I will share it here:

I am amazed that the journey of writing this story is finally at an end, but the true journey is just beginning. I cannot wait to see where the journey ends up going and a second book is starting to form in the edges of my mind.

To buy my new fantasy novel go to: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C90G8DM/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk

***Update: The symbol image was not able to be uploaded, the description that I wrote into the book to replace it is: the symbol was a circle with three tails inside of a blazing sun.

Editing a Novel

I've finally finished editing my novel, Child of Galina. This book has been in the works since 2005. It has traveled with me from Woodlawn, VA to Loris, SC and back to Virginia. It has changed, morphed, had better versions of it created and then lost, forcing me to go back to the original draft and start again. Now I'm in the final steps of learning how to convert it to a kindle file and sell it on Amazon. The journey of writing this book has been a long one, but a rewarding one.

Having taken such a long break from the novel when I went back over it, it was amazing to me how much of my life was reflected back at me in those pages, scenes written based on what I had been experiencing in my own life at that time. It truly makes me appreciate novels as an extension of the author's life. I don't think that any writer can completely take themselves out of their writing, especially in fiction. The story has to come from somewhere. Even in a fantasy that story comes from the heart and mind of the writer.

I cannot wait until the novel is up and available for people to buy and read on Amazon. I will let you know as soon as it is for sale!