First 2 and 3 star reviews
Well, I got my first 3 star review, and I'm sort of taking it in stride. I knew that AGL was going to be a story people either liked or didn't. It just was. But the reviewers did have some good points that I wanted to discuss.
1) Typos: yes, there were typos in this piece. I had a wonderful editor and I also had myself, unfortunately it was just the two of us. Just us and over 150 pages of writing to get through. We couldn't catch everything, and I'm hoping for my second book I'll have my normal editor and a final editor.
Sometime you just need a completely different set of eyes to look over the piece to catch the mistakes.
2) Confusing: I absolutely agree with the reviewer. AGL is confusing! AGL makes you think, makes you re-examine, makes you go back and re-read, re-check, and widen your scope. Everything I add in to AGL, the visions, the music, the setting... everything has a reason and is meant to make you think.
My favorite books are books that don't necessarily resolve, but spin out so you can widen your imagination, look up new things, discover things you never even thought about.
I draw A LOT of my inspiration from Karen Marie Moning, Jeanine Frost, and Christine Feehan. One thing most of these authors have in common is that they never give you even part of the picture. They give their readers puzzle pieces and say: "Here you go!" I love that, and I have tried to model that myself.
But I'm rambling again. *sigh* I do that way too much!
My other point is on the characters themselves. It seems that all the developed characters I read about have gone through SHIT! I mean that all my favorite characters have been through the ringer, and their personalities have developed through their endeavors.
At this point, Grim hasn't gone through the ringer. In comparison to Nina, Grim has been treated with kid gloves. Of course there is a reason for that. I'm not going to tell you the reason now, but let's just say book two books Grim through SHIT! If you haven't already read A Grim Love: Can't Fight Time and my short excerpt from A Grim Love: Can't Fight Fate, then I suggest you do so. You will totally get what I am talking about then.
So, I'll just part with this: I hate who Grim becomes in Can't Fight Fate. I didn't really have a choice in how I was going to write him because it was the natural progression of the story. In Can't Fight Time, Grim wasn't pushed, he didn't really have to sacrifice anything or work for anything half as hard as Nina. In this story... *blowing out a breath* I don't even know.
1) Typos: yes, there were typos in this piece. I had a wonderful editor and I also had myself, unfortunately it was just the two of us. Just us and over 150 pages of writing to get through. We couldn't catch everything, and I'm hoping for my second book I'll have my normal editor and a final editor.
Sometime you just need a completely different set of eyes to look over the piece to catch the mistakes.
2) Confusing: I absolutely agree with the reviewer. AGL is confusing! AGL makes you think, makes you re-examine, makes you go back and re-read, re-check, and widen your scope. Everything I add in to AGL, the visions, the music, the setting... everything has a reason and is meant to make you think.
My favorite books are books that don't necessarily resolve, but spin out so you can widen your imagination, look up new things, discover things you never even thought about.
I draw A LOT of my inspiration from Karen Marie Moning, Jeanine Frost, and Christine Feehan. One thing most of these authors have in common is that they never give you even part of the picture. They give their readers puzzle pieces and say: "Here you go!" I love that, and I have tried to model that myself.
But I'm rambling again. *sigh* I do that way too much!
My other point is on the characters themselves. It seems that all the developed characters I read about have gone through SHIT! I mean that all my favorite characters have been through the ringer, and their personalities have developed through their endeavors.
At this point, Grim hasn't gone through the ringer. In comparison to Nina, Grim has been treated with kid gloves. Of course there is a reason for that. I'm not going to tell you the reason now, but let's just say book two books Grim through SHIT! If you haven't already read A Grim Love: Can't Fight Time and my short excerpt from A Grim Love: Can't Fight Fate, then I suggest you do so. You will totally get what I am talking about then.
So, I'll just part with this: I hate who Grim becomes in Can't Fight Fate. I didn't really have a choice in how I was going to write him because it was the natural progression of the story. In Can't Fight Time, Grim wasn't pushed, he didn't really have to sacrifice anything or work for anything half as hard as Nina. In this story... *blowing out a breath* I don't even know.
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