The Black Pearl of Fararanga Part 1:
The Turning Zone
(A Weavers and Watchers Adventure)
Well it's been a long time since I last posted mostly because I have been incredibly busy trying to finalise the manuscript of my first novel(title as above) and create some illustrations. I've also begun the long haul of trying to get an agent or publisher interested in it but I'm also considering self publication and marketing it myself through the internet and promotions at book shops etc.
Added to this I've also become the membership secretary for the Petersfield Arts And Crafts Society and as the membership subs are due on January 1st it is the busiest time of the year for the membership secretary.
For those of you following my progress on the golf course I advise no holding of breath! Big Bertha must wait for fairer weather and the lengthening day.The first edition of my novel is for family only and thus will be a valuable and rare commodity in years to come. In return for such benificence I am hoping for feedback and some copychecking before it goes global!
"Sam shrank with horror as the mice raced along the branches and began gnawing at his flesh and stabbing him with lit tapers. Death, he was sure, must be close to hand."
"She was very thin and her arms were
wound round
her chest like fine twine on a spool.
‘I was told two,’ she
said, her eyes
flashing like steel swords.""It was an unseemly landing,
with much crashing and breaking
of branches, to which the protests of the crows, dislodged from their nests, added a raucous chorus."
"The Black Pearl sat in the middle of her palm. Yamamina
could feel the weight of a thousand eyes pressing down on
her, watching as her wings and antennae dissolved."
"In the manic
flurries they threw up, Sophie thought she could see weird, disembodied faces. Perhaps they were travellers, like
themselves, who hadn’t found the one and only way.
‘I don’t want to look,’ she said, turning her head away as
they drew closer."
As a taster I have posted some of the illustrations and a preliminary bookcover to wet the appetite.
Constructive comments welcome.
