Buy Elok's Book!

[Buster's Uncle]

Well, the epistolary format is tricky - it tends to be distancing, somehow.

[Rusty Edge]

Well, the epistolary format is tricky - it tends to be distancing, somehow.

That. The skill it takes to create is impressive, but instead of putting me in the shoes of one or more characters, I am a person removed. Also, if I'm reading somebody's correspondence, there's a loss of immediacy. It's after the fact.

I'll clear some time and try it again from the beginning this weekend, and attempt to binge read it.

[Buster's Uncle]

That's what I did - it really held together, w/ likeable people touring a strange, fascinating, world.

[Spacy]

A big part of what made it hard for me was keeping the names strait.  You had names of people, names of places, names of events, etc.  The fact that the names were all strange made it much harder.

Also, there wasn't headings to indicate when the perspective was changing at all the points.  I would get half a page in and go... what?!?! then have to skim back and realize that there was a gap between paragraphs and that was a complete perspective change and re-put what I just read back into context. 

[Elok]

Where did perspective change without a heading?  The ebook version looked fine, but I didn't read it line-by-line to check.  If there's an unheaded letter please let me know.

[Spacy]

I can do.  I got about 45% into it then had RL happen and haven't picked it up again yet. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I just wanted to point out a way everybody who's on Facebook can support Elok w/o spending money on his excellent book or going to any trouble worth mentioning.

 'Like' his author page. https://www.facebook.com/author.brayton.cole/ -it's an SEO thing I suspect he doesn't really understand, but it directly and indirectly helps him get the word out and sell his -I loved it- book. Y'all do One Of Us a solid, hear?


I think I'll torment him by also posting that verbatim at WooPCie...

[Buster's Uncle]

 

[Syn]

I'll look into buying this next month when I get paid. I like supporting others in their goals. Feel free to remind me near the end of April if I forget.

[Buster's Uncle]

Dunno if it's good, but Kyriakos has something out that he was pushing last year...

Elok's, I read the penultimate draft, as you know, and 100% confidence that unless he blew the final draft horribly -and he didn't- it's no freshman debut he'll someday be jokingly trying to buy back from fans. 

It's a first-rate, professional-quality, lovingly crafted and excellent, novel of Touring the Thing amid a time of chaotic political change for a princess on the planet Corban.  It scratches the SF and fantasy itches at the same time, with echoes of Dune, and excelling Sword of Shannara at combining SF and fantasy, and I cannot say enough good things about it.  A real honest-to-God page-turner about people you come to care deeply for, the adventures of a princess with 'magic' powers and her faithful retainers/surrogate parents, set well into the future on a far planet intriguingly terraformed.

-Elok, if I was anyone, that's a good pull-quote (or maybe three) -at least, if one, with some trimming for length and unifying the SF/fant and princess/planet points- and deserving to be shamelessly ripped-off in promotion and publisher pitches...

[Syn]

Hah, well, I would buy Kyriakos' stuff, if he didn't send me insulting PMs and if his stuff were in English.

I'm doing an order from Amazon on April 25th. I'll include the paperback in that.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've read the PM in question in the appeals forum, so I get that.  It is in English, though, and he's nothing like terrible in the language.

Note w/ hat on: He is a member here, though I haven't seen him in a long time and he'd never see anything in RC...

[Syn]

I made it less than a week before getting mod-hatted. Good start.

[Buster's Uncle]

Phooey.  That was just my job to bring it up in time as prophylaxis, no actual admonition.  You're fine.