About My Upcoming Book

When people hear the word "Paranormal". they think ghosts,vampires, shift changers, ghouls,and you name it. But what about witches? Witches are people who practice witchcraft--they have powers that do not come from God. I have a friend who told me he saw nothing paranormal about my story at all. So I did some research. I would advise anyone who has doubts to visit this website: Paranormal Haze .
 Just like vampires, and werewolves, witches are evil too. Of course Wiccans will tell you that they  do good, but all witchcraft is an abomination to God.  There is a lot of evil in my story. But evil is overcome.

My story is Christian. It involves a married Christian couple who becomes victims of a seduction scheme by a brother and sister who are Wiccans,but as I said evil is overcome. God offers forgiveness to the victims and redemption. My heroine gets  a new lease on life and later is able to resist succombing to witchcraft.
It wouldn't be called Jesus Paid It All for nothing, if God didn't forgive them. Jesus died on the cross for all sin except the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

Redeeming Marge?

I never thought I would see the day that my redemption plan would fail. What am I talking about? A Second Chance at Love was my second chance at redeeming myself after my former publisher allowed all the mistakes and typos we both made in my book. I rewrote it and thought it was pretty good.

However, my hopes of redeeming myself were dashed: no one wanted to buy my book.

 

I have a friend one Facebook who wanted to help. Although I think my book is fine as it is, there were people who didn't. I let her look at the first three chapters and this is what I am told basically:
 

"You have two many point of views."

Okay so I have to stick with one for each section or chapter.

"Romance readers don't like the Ominscient point of views."

That means I can't let me readers know what certain characters are thinking or feeling at my given time.

Why do they have to be picky? By changing how the POV is written, I have  actually changed the whole dynamic of  my story?  It is no longer  how I have  written it but what others want.

Currently my book is selling for 11.99 but I am thinking of setting at 13.99. Why? Because I am rewriting it to please my picky readers. That book has taken me years to perfect and yet no one is satisfied with the finished product.

Thoughts on Publishing

I am sitting at my desk, working on my masterpiece. My first book is so full of problems that no one wants to buy it! Granted though, that I did pay someone to edit it. I was suppose to be my pride and joy and now its a pain in he you know where. So what to do? Should I leave it on the proverbial shelves and hope that no one noticed, or  take it off? I prefer to take it off that way someone else can't point out every little thing that is wrong.

Before I started writing, I wanted to  have my books published  but not self published. It is like this: It is nice to be a bridesmaid, but wouldn't it be nice to be a bride? Have you ever dreamed or imagine the kind of man you want to marry? Then someone who would just rather not marry would say, "There is nothing wrong with being single: you can do what you want without having being told what to do." That is fine for a spinster, but not for someone with dreams! I am not putting self publishing down, but I had too many headaches and I much rather have someone else take care of all the formatting. etc.  It is nice to have your own freedom to what you want, but it is also nice to have someone special in your life--even if you have to be submissive.

"Yes," you say, "but what if the person you marry gets to be controlling or abusive? What if he puts limitations on you?"

"Well, I doubt God will have someone like that come across my path. He knows who is good for me."

 In fact, if someone does come across like that, it would be  because I didn't wait upon God. This reminds me of my first publisher. I have a friend who had some problems with them so I knew not to ask them to publish my first book. However, instead of listening to my friends' advice, I followed one person's recommendation--someone who I highly valued and trusted and had found my self with a publisher known as a scam!
No, they didn't take my money, but they bogged me down with their "Promotional services", service that really are none at all, and messed up my book, adding a price too high no one wants to buy!  Because I didn't seek God more or first, I got stuck with a no good publisher. I believe if I did, he would have led me to someone better or maybe to self publishing...
 Back to my point, I am pleased that my second book is doing better with reviews, but even with that I had problems. I even had to make some changes after it has been published.
There is digital company that I had thought of using for my upcoming book until I read the pros and cons. Sigh. Again: What do I do? I so wanted to use  Smashword but not if they are so picky with formatting and not great with keeping up with sales and holding back on royalties! My current work in progress is worth more than those headaches. I want what is only the best and it looks like SW is not it. So should I go with a brand new website called Draft2Digital or use KDP all over again? Both are not just worth it but what should I chose? All I can say is: Wait on God. Perhaps I will find out what God has to say.