Chapter 5 of The Balance added to the samples today

I’ve added Chapter 5 to the draft samples from the upcoming book, The Balance. I also changed the way that they are presented. Now it is a single pdf file that can be downloaded and read on your computer.

 

Thus far, the following sections are a part of the sample document:

 

Introduction: What Came Before— this is background information from the history before the story began and is important to understanding what’s going on. Naturally one can glean this information from the story, but it emerges only slowly and your understanding will be much better if you read this first. Don’t worry, it’s only 2 pages—much less than the original set of background pages.

Prologue: Also important to read, more for tone and to grasp how Sensitives begin to mature.

Chapter 1: Is This Real? This is a key chapter to the immediate story, although why may take a while to see

Chapter 2: Burnt Toast

Chapter 3: The Steel Tower

Chapter 4: Classes

Chapter 5: Lunch With Sarah

 

The complete book contains more than 50 chapters, although I’ve cut quite a few sections and a lot of backstory content from the full manuscript. This final version of the story is actually the 23rd version of the story, which has evolved since I finished the initial draft Jan 1 2012.  At its peak, it was a 150K word book. The current word count  (which can change) is around 112K.

I actually plan that The Balance will eventually span 3 volumes, since it is an epic tale and the story encompasses a lot more than the YA story contained in this volume.  The other two volumes are plotted to an extent, although I reserve the right to keep changing the story, as I have done with this first volume.

 

The downloadable file can be found at:

 

http://michaelselden.com/?page_id=7

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