Struggling Authors

Good morning lads and lassies.
Richard asked me to update you all on what has been happening to me over the past few days so..............
Against all my gut instincts I finally put my baby "The Eye of Erasmus" on to the 'net. The Authonomy site to be precise. It was so hard to let it go out and face the world alone but my nurturing had to stop at some point. I'm now so glad I cut the umbilical cord because he has grown beyond recogntion.
I'm still trying to do some editing but I haven't had the time as I have also been reviewing other books. However I hope to do some editing this w/end.
Since going live on 31st October my little one has risen in the ranking from 6000+ to its current place of 1319. I am a bit gobsmacked I must admit.
Richard asked me to include some of the comments I have received. I have also included the warts an all.
Backing/shelving means its pushing my ranking further up.
So here goes..............



REVIEWS OF THE EYE OF ERASMUS

Doug Bremner
I agree with other commenters that this is potentially powerful stuff with the air of myth making about it. However the initial paragraphs are dense and you need something good to pull the reader in in the first pages. I would consider show not tell in this space and the most compelling image is of the sister being dragged out to be hanged as a witch. Maybe showing this as an event with dialogue etc. Backed for potential. Doug, The Goose.


A very enjoyable read! I'm looking forward to reading more. Backing!
Camille
The Hobble Knobble Gobble Tree


Onthedottedline

Apart from the very long and sometimes turgid paragraphs, this is a good read, and will interest fantascists everywhere. Good luck with it. Backed. Best wishes, Tony.
DMC

Teresa
This is so enchanting - what fun!
You have a grand adventure here, full of exuberance, magic and prophecy. Ha-ha! A time travelling lover with attitude has to go a long way.
Shelved with my best wishes
David
Green Ore


mikegilli
An eternally repeating story...WOW...shelved forever or..
Erasmus and Shasta are super attractive characters
and this flies along...Excellent.
Suggestion.
Ch 1 is has a lot of explaining. You could possibly do a clip flashback
of her sisters death, also maybe leave some of it to emerge
later?
Lots of fun with it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Mikey The Free


Pia
Dear Teresa,
I was attracted by the cover and the Title.
What you got up here reads like a fairytale, quite lovely.
Ocasionally a little space between scenes would help orientation.
I'll drop in to see if there's more to come.
Best Luck
Pia (Course of Mirrors)


Urania (A published author many times over)
Theresa, a subject after my own heart! I love the pitch, the title, the premise. And the writing to boot. I'm not usually fond of books that set the scene and tell the history of someone's life before getting to the action, but this works. However, it may be that you need to bring it to life sooner and thread the back-story through the action., or bring some of the growing up elements to life.
Anyway, love the whole feel of this tale, mythical, yet enough flesh and bones to make it real. And to me, myth is reality.
My only other suggestion would be to break up some of those rather lengthy paras (particularly in Chapter two). Great read, and shelved with pleasure.


Excellent, cover, title and pitch. I loved the opening, very descriptive and tells us what we need to know. I thought it so sad that her sister was accused of witchcraft, dragged out of bed and hanged, terrible. Excellent writing in a genre that I like very much. Shelved with pleasure.
Sandie
The Crown of Crysaldor



Bill Cheall
Good story Theresa - good luck with it! Paul




Illusion
This is interesting. I have put this on my watchlist. It will be good to read more of this


Matt Walker
This has an interesting premise. There is certainly an 'other wordly' feel about all of this which adds to the intrigue. Overall your writing is good, but just watch how many adverbs creep in. I liked it, well done!


Great work Teresa, you must be one of those lucky people who didn't lose their imagination at puberty. I'll keep an eye out for it when it, (undoubtedly) gets published.
Good luck, it's on my Watchlist to show my support.
Reg.


maryinflorida (Edited version)
Teresa,
There’s a long tradition of using Christian history as underlying themes for fantasy stories aimed at young people.

CS Lewis and “The Chronicles of Narnia” come to mind as a prime example. So you’re certainly in good company with this venture.
I’ll move this to my bookshelf
Mary

............So there you have it peeps. Many thanks to CQ for also backing me and i have sent him a private email with added thanks.

If you wish to view my baby, (I'll try to clean him up a bit and slick down his hair by the w/end) or you would just make a comment you need to go to www.authonomy.com then register and then enter the book title "The Eye of Erasmus.".

Remember....... when I joined SA a couple of years ago I never dreamed I would get this far. It's all down to the support I received from Richard, CQ and Sammi. Many times they picked me up and dusted me down again when I was at my lowest ebb. - AND - I really mean it when I say if I can get there so can you - It's just Faith, Determination, and bloody mindedness with guts:lol:

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Mad Tee (The Eye of Erasmus)

Am at work and hungover so don't really have the time/brain to comment too much at the mo, but just wanted to say a quick congrats . I did read it when you sent me that email the other week but haven't had a chance to get back you about it yet. When I get home tonight I'll come back and celebrate with you properly

Ew........there's an excited little bunny here. Am trying to get round to editing today but life gets in the way

Hair of the dog woman !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also when you are compus mentis can you do an abc of how to put a picture of me under "Forum Legend" please. Tazee

As an update to Tee's update....

Her book, The Eye of Erasmus, is now at 998 in the charts. It's the fastest rise I've ever seen on Authonomy - I hope Harper Collins are taking note

congratulations Tee - hope you'll sign my 'Tee'shirt one day!

R

TEE - YOU ARE A FORUM LEGEND!!!!

I wanna be a forum legend as well!!!
("Patience Grasshopper, like the stone that grows in the kidney, only with time can it gather momentum and weight."
"Yes Master Quaffer".
Deleted scene from the cult television series, "Kung Fu".)

Woohoo !!
I AM a forum legend !!!

Seriously Colwyn, whilst we're on the subject of your forum picture....

Would you mind standing there with your hand raised and shout "You shall not pass!", please.

Thanks

Richard the Gray(ling)

Lol! He does look like Gandalf there! Was that intentional CQ?

Sorry I didn't come back sooner as promised - I'd like to claim that I've been hungover for over a week, but in fact I just forgot. My bad. I think I did a guide on how to add a pic a year or so ago in the 'How To' forum - I'll grab the link for you in a sec. Very, very happy that your book is climbing the Authonomy charts so quickly, and I hope that some clever publisher sits up and takes notice. Just make sure you remember us when you're a famous author!

Here ya go Tee, it's nice and quick and easy : re-pickys-of-me-t132.html

Larfs I nearly bust a gut at that pikky CQ. What were you thinking? You look like someone out of the "Life of Brian" (Who it is will come to me eventually). Oh Oh what about ET when he's riding the bike through the skies.
AND another update to Richards update of my update ... I'm now 840 and rising! Thats in the ranking system as opposed to age (Before me ole mucker CQ gets in there with a comment).
Richard when I get published I will BUY you all a Tee Shirt with the EYE OF ERASMUS on it.
Sammi thanks for your lovely comments. Maybe I can dig out one of me pics now then. Give everyone a fright. I think I have one of me in the West Country drinking.......now there's a funny thing...............

Ok hunny my pikky is now sitting on my desktop awaiting to upload onto here. Can I just do a paper cut out and stick it onto my screen on SA cos I can't see how else to do it. Amazingly I have had no problems with uploading on my blogs/web. So where do I go on SA to play with it then? Eh Eh?

Rank 823 now with a rise of 123 places

*insert thumbs up smilie here* and celebration smilie here*

My little baby is now ranked 797 and still rising.
I'll stop bragging now until it gets into the 500's