Friday, March 12, 2010

INTRODUCTION

Hello out there.

This blogspot was set up as a way to give away some manuscripts I have, free. There are three stories in the original series, with each story separate and able to be read without reference to the others. The fourth is set in the same era, the first century Roman world, but the characters have no relationship to the family who appear in the first three.

I have not blogged before and am still working out the finer points, so please be patient.

Hopefully I will end up with an outline and sample chapter for each story available first, with the choice then to download a PDF of each full novel.

The stories were written for a publisher who, as sometimes happens, after L O N G deliberations decided they could not be published under her company's guidelines. They were however, too skewed toward that genre to be welcomed anywhere else. They are litle stories written in a few weeks and meant to be read in a few relaxing hours, not works of great literary scope, but I hope some of you out there might enjoy them. It costs nothing to find out.

I welcome comments.

With warmest wishes to all,
Letitia Coyne.
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2 comments:

  1. I've come to have to use the good ol' internet to put out my stories and books simply because I can't afford to have them published the old-fashioned way. It's just too darn expensive. So, if you'd like to click on my budgie on your followers, you'll find the I manage quite a few blogs in two that are books: Fry Nelson and You Can't Go Back and Other Impossibilities. The former is a series where you must start at the first story and follow it through. The latter book is one where you pick and choose any story as they are short stories and novellas that aren't related to each other but are deliciously fun and right out there. Both are based in Brisbane; as it's my home town.

    I hope you enjoy mine as I'm enjoying yours.

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  2. Heya.
    I read the Caledonia Sample chapter and I like what you've written. The story flows and the characters come to life.
    If I may make a couple of suggestions, the story needs some editing work done, grammar and punctuation, to make the story flow better as it can be a bit difficult to read at the start.
    Also, is Brinnie a pet name for Eirbrin or is Eirbrin simply a typo? It's not really clear.

    You obviously have a talent for writing, rejection can be hard but I wouldn't stop at the one publisher. Perhaps you could have your manuscripts edited and then try forwarding them to smaller publishing houses?

    I remember reading a story in a Reader's Digest Condensed Book, it would've been a very old book, but it was a romance novel set in a similar time frame.... No, I think it was a lady who heard hoof beats, something about a ghost, it was a soldier from the Legionaires, his wife had died and the lady who could hear hoof beats was a spitting image of his deceased wife....

    Anyhow, the point is it was a romance novel, but also historical set in a similar time frame to your novels.
    So don't give up hope that you can get your stories published, if at first you don't succeed try, try again.

    Gyps

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