Love and Let Love

"We must promote love, teach love, and even endure love as no love is ever easy, but any love is worth the fight to have it." -Head Celebrant Vega, Child of Galina

Above is one of my favorite lines from Child of Galina, that line definitely reflects how I feel about life. I have been very blessed with love, but in the past it was hard and life wasn't always smooth. No one's life ever is, but now I'm just grateful that I've found the person that I can share my life with. I hope that everyone does. In the meantime, show love and compassion to your fellow man. Imagine how much more beautiful the world would be if everyone did.

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!