6/22/2012 Just When the Ride Begins... It’s a wildly morbid tale about a young woman’s experience in cheating death and falling in love after she dies. When life and death collide there is no telling where it might end. Sally Mertill is spending time with friends visiting her beloved state. They’ve spent the day poking around Pike’s Peak and looking as far as they can see, but everything changes on the way back down the mountain to Colorado Springs. In a flash they careen off the side of the mountain. With no guardrails it’s not surprising that no one survives. And yet within days, Bocnic Drewings will call upon the metal drawer where her body awaits an autopsy. For whatever reason the powers that be have chosen Sally to join the ranks of the undead—and there’s a kick, Sally also possesses a power only one other undead has ever had, which is to control and bring back anything that has died. As Bocnic teaches her the ropes of not living, it becomes obvious that not all the undead share her enthusiasm for life—or have a heart. Sally is caught between worlds as also learns what it means to be undead when The Cross, a branch of the Catholic Church, seeks to destroy her. Words to live by and learn from. http://ow.ly/bAoa3 Lulu's Blog - The Editorial Process has great advice for writers of every level.They're right that traditional publishing houses help their writers immensely with fine-tuning a manuscript. What does a self published author have to look forward to? Well, there are friends, family, and a sometimes pricey editor (depending on the author's word count) to wade through innocent mistakes missed on the first few revisions. These people are invaluable to a writer as is a large publishing house is to a well-known author. Whether an author seeks out professional advice from a publisher or a friend, he or she must always remember what advice comes back negative in a good way. They want to see you succeed. Take what has to be said and run with it. Read more tips from Lulu's blog to improve your editing. Don't forget to visit Panhandling Fantasy or the Dead and Rising homepage to see what's coming out next from me. |
About the Author
Adam Santo is a SciFi/Fantasy writer who enjoys the quiet moments to write stories. His debut novel, Temperature: Dead and Rising, took the world for a ride they would soon not forget. Santo began plotting out the second paperback novel, Temperature: Bitter Cold, before the ink dried on his first book. Santo continues to write nonstop because he knows there is always a story waiting to get out. Archives
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