Bridge Between Worlds

My Debut Novel (eventually series) - Bridge Between Worlds First time Author Promotional and Beta content https://cabarnes-bridgebetweenworlds.mystrikingly.com/

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Hello! Welcome to my blog, my name is Carlos Barnes and I am an aspiring author writing my debut novel series Bridge Between Worlds. Here you will find promotional content, authoring commentary, novel reviews and alpha and beta submissions. As well as the illustrations I create for this novel

My novel is a queer romance/fantasy focusing on the main character - Bridger who is a trans man with vitiligo. He lives a difficult life with a complex and ultimately violent relationships with the people closest to him in his life. He has a gift that allows him to see other places and landscapes that couldn't possibly exist on earth in the reflections of everyday objects; for years he has believed that this was the result of mental illness or some sort of brain anomaly, but no one has ever believed him and no one else can see them. Until one day he falls directly into one of these reflections and finds himself in the place he had witnessed from the other side of the reflection. Now he has to fight against all knew unknowns to get home, but he doesn't do it without help, and he might even make some friends along the way...and potentially find love.

I take asks, feedback and am looking for beta and alpha readers for my debut, so please, interact with this blog any way you feel you would like to. All support and involvement means the most to me.

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What is my book about?

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My Official Website:

https://cabarnes-bridgebetweenworlds.mystrikingly.com/

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Hey, just so you know you don't need to edit and write your book in order. You don't need to write the whole thing and then spend the next 6 months editing it. You can go back and edit the first chapter after writing the first 3, or more or less. You don't have to do everything massive sections

You don't have to WRITE and then EDIT. You can write and revise, fix spelling errors and keep writing, or you can dedicate one month to writing only and the next month to editing only.

Hell, it doesn't even have to be linear, write all of your favourite scenes, all the best dialogue, and then connect it all with everything else.

Writing is complicated and complex but at the end of the day it should be fun and inspiring, so do what feels right to you!

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Being a writer sometimes means looking up what tense the word "has" is from

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Official Website

I have an official website for my book complete with blog, art, and updates as well as eventual content from my alpha and beta readers. Consider checking it out and subscribing to my newsletter

https://cabarnes-bridgebetweenworlds.mystrikingly.com/

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Notice

I've been on a bit of a hiatus at the moment with life throwing a few challenges my way but I'm back writing again and am excited to put more content out there for y'all to see

Please consider following for more updates and reblogging my content so more people can see it

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Introducing my Website

I made an official website for my book and all things about my journey as an author, if you could check it out, subscribe to my news letter and show this post some love my reblogging it that would be greatly appriciated!

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The Tropes of my Novel

⟡ Strangers to Lovers

⟡ Forced Proximity

⟡ Tent Sharing

⟡ Magic

⟡ Campfire Tales

⟡ Curse(s)

⟡ Dragons and Beasts

⟡ Found Family

⟡ Grumpy x Grumpy

⟡ Interaccial Romance

⟡ Kidnapping

⟡ Training

⟡ Queer romance

⟡ Unrequited Love

⟡ Royalty

⟡ Slow Burn

⟡ Touch Him and Die

⟡ Yearning

⟡ Mild Gore/Injury

Does this sound interesting to you?

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What is my book about? [Spoiler free]

My main character - Bridger Banks; a trans male university student with vitiligo and sectoral heterochromia in one eye. He's loosely connected to his fellow classmates with a secretly abusive relationship with a bully from his childhood. Not to mention a terrible relationship with both his mother and father.

Bridger also has a gift, he has the ability to see places, landscapes and scenes from other worlds - he believes this to be a medical condition though he doesn't have the ability to get it diagnosed. This ability leads to him ending up in one of these 'other' worlds where this center of this novel takes place.

My secondary main character (and love interest) - Calix Ashide; a young royal born into a lineage of both Woodland and High Elves with a Mother; the Queen, who rules the country with an iron fist. He is adept at protective magic and has a personal love of litrature

He stumbles upon Bridger when Bridger finds himself having been transported to one of the reflections he was so used to seeing. Confused, cautions and ultimately distrustful of Bridger, Calix escorts him back to the castle where their journey together begins.

Where does this all take place?

The country where the large portion of my novel takes place is called Concordé (pronounced Con-core-day), a country that is highly diverse but ruled by the Queen who herself is a High Elf. Concordé's major climate is woodlands complete with caves, water ways and caverns. There is a major port town that connects Concordé's trade to other countries and a cursed forest that has all manner of unholy creatures living within it's depths.

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Voice Claims for my Characters

Bridger Banks - Tyler Dichara Calix Ashide - Dougie Baldwin Dylan - Peter Evans Erinan - Oona Chaplin Aridia Ashide - Elisabeth Olson Sir Greer - Patrick Seitz

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Based on this blurb alone would you read my book?

[I am looking for feedback on the early stages of my novel, so please interact with this post constructively]

There is a theory that this world doesn’t exist as a singularity, that across space and times there is a possibility for life to exist. There is also a theory that suggests that there are worlds in difference places, different dimensions or universes.

Bridger has a gift, one that doesn’t make sense. And it’s one that most people don’t believe exists

But he knows, because he lives it. He can see into other worlds, a miraculous gift to some; a curse to young Bridger.

And his namesake just so happens to be the exact thing that his gift is: a bridge between worlds

This is a story where a boy from a world much like our own is thrust into a world of the magical and the fantastical being drawn into the political and an adventure that many would never even dream of in a quest to get home. Not all is as it seems, and not everyone wants Bridger to return safely back to the world he came from.

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Voting ended onApr 21