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Tim Arnot - Flick Carter #1: FREED!
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I don't read it. :)
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Ignite wrote: "I don't read it. :)"Nor me. ;)
St. Michael. I've got a label to prove it!
I'm George. Just checked.
Haha- Tim, that's EXCELLENT!
Price goes up on Sunday. Just thought I'd mention, in case anyone's dithering over buying... ;)
Buy, buy, buy! Get it while it's - erm - tepid?
Did I do that right?
Still a few hours at the old price...I've been pondering the idea of chapter titles. I keep doing it, although I also keep deciding against, at least in the ebook version I have anyway. But I'm working on readying the 2nd edition paperback (it's a bit sooner than I'd prefer, but I've got a decent selling opportunity in October, and it'd be nice to have the new cover etc ready for that, even if book 2 won't be out yet.)
I'd be interested in your opinions, either as readers or writers - to title or not to title...
Anyhow, I sneak peaked my working titles on my blog - http://www.tim-arnot.com/?p=603
I used to like chapter titles, but now I prefer not. I think they work well for a young audience. Seems a lot of new books don't have chapters, never mind titles.
Yes, it seems that more YA books do than don't, and this is ultimately a YA book. But I'm used to not having them, which is why I keep vacillating...
Peeked? I rather like chapter titles. If they're clever they can add a great deal.
Depending on the genre, a clever chapter title can act as a neat little trailer as to what the next few pages have in store. You're chapter titles on your blog would certainly do that.
Ignite wrote: "Peeked? I rather like chapter titles. If they're clever they can add a great deal."Cos they're the tops...
Got me first 1* on Amazon. Suppose it was inevitable really, but not the best way to start a monday. Ho hum. Onwards and upwards...
But please don't rush off and downvote it - nothing worse than hitting off on a 1* reviewer!
With only three reviews you're not exactly being dissed by a big-hitter. People do take that into account.
Oh, and I'm also working on a Christmas Special, for, er... Christmas!
... starring Socko Garrett and Dan Barnes.
Tim wrote: "I'm easily cheered up... just bought one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008ZREAE2 :-D"How old? Christmas special. Like the sound of that! Do you get the prize for the first mention of the season?
Twas the night before Christmas and inside the palaceA thief crept about, his heart filled with malice
The silver, locked up in the chancery store
Next morn when they looked, it would be there no more.
The gold, it was gone, the silver and more
A big chest of money to give to the poor
But that isn't all, for our thief, he was shoddy
And left in his wake, all bloody, a body
Jessica's away doing her 'princess thing',
The Kingsmen are busy guarding their king
Just Socko is left to figure it out
With Corporal Dan, will they do it? No doubt!
I demand a 'Like' button! :)
Got another nice 4-star review this evening:'Being a “Hunger Games” fan made me decide to read and review this book. At first I thought that this is just a mock-up of the Hunger Games because of its post-apocalyptic storyline but then when I read the book every turn of the page proved me wrong. All were delivered differently, storyline, characters, themes and style. I love the way the author did the world-building which was expertly done that makes the story more believable. There may be some scenes that the book could go on without. But all in all this is a great read and I can’t wait to read the sequel. I’ll definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves post-apocalyptic stories that would keep you on edge.'
:D
Didn't get a lot of yer actual writing done today - probably only 500 or so words, but what I did do was change a major location, which integrated two locations into one (saving on all that messy travel). Lots of rewriting needs doing as a result (:() but there's a couple of good new scenarios coming out of it, and we meet a new character (codename Kilo India November Golf) in a highly unusual way...Going to have to do a set visit to check a few things out. The new location? Blenheim Palace!
Did you feed him blackberries?
Tim wrote: "Going to have to do a set visit to check a few things out. The new location? Blenheim Palace"If the weather's lousy you could just watch Branagh's Hamlet. If memory serves all of the exteriors were shot at Blenheim Palace and its a magnificent piece of epic cinema to boot.
For fun, I rewrote my blurb to be exactly 100 words. A drabblurb perhaps... Anyway, feel free to pick it apart. :)23rd Century England. No oil. No electricity. The few remaining people get by as best they can, improvising and living off the land, or scavenging through long-derelict cities for scraps and trinkets.
When Sixteen year old Flick Carter saves the life of an injured Scav, she discovers he has secrets. Secrets the authorities want badly. But someone else wants them too, and they will will stop at nothing, not even murder.
For Flick, the small town of Faringdon is suddenly not safe. Accused of murder, and with no one left she can trust, she must flee for her life.
I'm in no position to comment on blurbs, Tim. In the 1st blurb competition I only came 6th :~( Obviously I need to hone my blurb writing skills.
I didn't enter that - obviously there was no point since I was book of the month all summer. But I might just try a 50 word version, to see if it retains any coherence...
A quote: "I've managed to pull some strings, Miss Carter. I'm not entirely without influence in this town..." Lt. Jessica Dixon (HUNTED, Flick Carter #2)
I love the drablurb! At school (on the Ark!) we used to be given a passage from a book and asked to reduce it to 50 words and still keep the sense. You can make every words count but you can't start with too long a piece. I used to enjoy it which is probably why I like drabbling. That, and the fact that sometimes it's a stretch to make one of my thought long enough for 100 words. I could probably write sound-bites!
The 50 word blurb:Flick Carter is just an ordinary sixteen year old in a ruined 23rd Century England. When a boy she saved from a plane crash turns out to be wanted by the law, everyone she knows is put in danger, and she finds herself on the run and wanted for murder…
Flick has just met someone very "influential", although she doesn't know it...
Tim wrote: "Flick has just met someone very "influential", although she doesn't know it..."Is it Sir Menzies Campbell?
Okay I see... it's cos I had influential in quotes, isn't it!
That and the obvious influence that a Liberal Democrat conference has upon the environments that writers of dystopian worlds create.
My money's on Kingie. No quotes!
Ignite wrote: "My money's on Kingie. No quotes!"Kingie rather than Mingie? Interesting...
That's what Pratchett's Wee Free Men say!
Well, he's a bit liberal with kingie's scotch, whoever he is! Thing is, she was trying to steal... no, I'd better not say!
It took ages for Amazon to sort it out, but finally it looks like the update to WANTED has now been made available to everyone. If you delete your copy of WANTED from your Kindle, and re-download it, you should now get the latest update. Or it might happen automatically if you have that option enabled.You can tell if you have the latest version because it has the date code 20130903 on the copyright page (and the new cover, & chapter titles).
You're such a tease. I think I shall get a paperback for my collection. It won't be signed though. Would you mind popping you signature on a £20 note and sending it to me? Then I can slip it into the book. Probably. Fnar, fnar.
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