Hello it occurs to me I never told you guys I wrote another book. I'm attempting to put it on Barnes & Noble's self publishing system (but will likely add it to Amazon later bc I'm unsure how Barnes & Noble works internationally but I do know Amazon's process for that) but before I can do that I need to make sure there aren't any errors.
In summary: I switched the POV of the entire story from first person alternating to third person limited alternating. This is obviously a major change with high risk for errors left behind.
Was wondering if anybody would be willing to read through it as a beta reader and let me know if you catch any errors? I can discuss details about that if anyone is interested but for now here's a book summary for in case that affects anyone's opinions:
- female lead: a "witch" named Rieka Rovara hiding her true identity in a crooked deal she made to protect her family after her parents died and the world fell apart. Her nation has been ravaged by a weapon called the Arsenal, which is owned by the Council (the new government); the Arsenal has taken countless lives, leaving entire cities burned to dust. Rieka is going to kill the Arsenal. Until she meets him, realizes he is not at all the monster the stories say he is, and breaks him out of the Council's control. The story is dual timeline; in part one, Rieka tells the present tense timeline where she is in her mid 20s and dealing with all of the stuff I just mentioned. In part two, the POV swaps, and Rieka tells the past timeline of her childhood before her parents died, as it turns out the past has a lot of answers that feed into the present.
- male lead: the Arsenal. He is the monster in your fairytales. He is the most powerful being to ever walk the earth. And he is telling you the past timeline in part one, but his memories don't always add up, and he seems to be clinging to any clue that implies he was ever happy. He has never seen the sky or the sun, and he has never felt dirt or spoken to another child. He yearns fervently for a life he cannot have. However, his memories are falling apart faster and faster, and one night, when he recounts them to a new friend, they shatter entirely. In part two, the Arsenal tells the present tense timeline as he tries to reckon with the past that he has lost.
It's a love story. It's the "sad pathetic man gets saved by cool buff woman" trope. Unreliable narrators. Werewolves. Childhood friends to separated by tragic events to lovers. Funny sibling dynamics in part 2 when the sibling characters are introduced. I wrote it for my sister, so I tried generally to include her favorite tropes. I'm sure there are more I'm missing.
If anyone would be willing to beta read for me let me know! I'd be willing to offer something in return, though what that is might depend on what the beta reader would want :)
Thanks for considering. Sorry I haven't been as active on here recently; I got kind of frustrated with my art recently bc I was working on Nico With Long Hair for a while and failed to get the hair right and then also I was working on Jean Moreau from All For The Game and accidentally deleted a layer that had a lot of the work I did on Jean's hands :/ which is frustrating. And I keep getting halfway through fic chapters and getting stuck. Honestly, I think I'm starting the chapters in the wrong place and that's why I keep hitting a wall on that. Which probably means I'll have to start over from scratch on all of them. Which is also annoying. But all of this is to say I haven't had a lot to post about recently, as my projects keep having issues
I hope you're all doing well!