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That’s what it is looking like. These take me a while. Even if I get more writing time I have some other series waiting in the wings
[quote]I may have used google translator to translate the last two books of a 3 part series from Russian to English because only the first book was published in the US.
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OK, now that’s hardcore.I use GT a lot for short phrases and a few news articles where context isn’t so critical….but a novel? Not so sure.
Actually it’s interesting that there are plenty of “Editing Services” out there for independent authors but there aren’t or I have really found a lot of translation services. My guess is that while an author can easily tell if the editor improved the editing/content of their book, they probably have no idea if it was well translated.
Yes, this is a good point that I previously agreed completely with, and editing is mainly what I did…but mainly because opening my laptop on a plane/bus etc was such a pain. For a while, years ago, I had a really small Sony Vaio…incredibly small and it ran WinXP so that worked great on a plane/train, but later when i got larger notebooks…it was a nightmare since I sort of had to work in a V formation with the keyboard at a weird angle.
however, once I got a decent attached keyboard/stand thing for my iPad and reliable software, I could do it…slowly. Once Word for iPad came out, that was big because the translation between formats nearly goes away.
It’s coming…slowly, but faster than it was this summer.
I am hoping for Spring, of course we have to get through Winter, and I really could stand to have a Westeros style winter this year…
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Beta request noted, and we’ll post an actual sign up list here with priority (if needed) for people who have spoken up here.
There is not a thread per se, it’s just in some threads people have expressed interest. I’ll scan the thread and put people on the list when it’s created and will have it officially posted so people can add their name.
All true, and of course, one can also “buy” more quality by using higher powered tools, better renderers and server farms.
Of course, even so, the modeling work needs to be a lot better for the super res images, but chances are they have really good tools for that if they’ve made the other investments.
I will admit, you really have to know more about the “how” with 3D to truly appreciate the mona lisa’s That was one nice thing about cghub when it was still alive, people would/could list what tools they used. Then you could better appreciate the effort if you knew the toolset they were using…some programs are much easier or harder for different types of images.
Thanks for noticing and paying attention! You’ve got a great eye…this is why covers need to be beta previewed as well as beta readers.
Actually it’s not a mesh glitch, it’s more of a body part posing thing.
What you are seeing is his wing as it attaches to the collarbone/spine and the trapezius musscles.
His wing bones are scaley and they merge at that point with his back, depending on how high his wings are posed there is eclipsing of his body and the wings which are separate objects.
Thanks!
Catgirl’s back story, I can promise is coming big time…in book 2 even….
I am seriously thinking about a prequel with the retrieval of the book. Lenamare’s henchmen will be showing up in the not to distant future…so their original adventure is something of interest to me. It’s very unusual fantasy story, if you haven’t guessed (powerful wizard hires a party of adventurers to get magic artifact for him–I am sure none of you have ever encountered this plot line)–the big trick is that it takes place in Oorstemoth so the dialog is a bit taxing to write…
Antefalken’s backstory is very very long (as is Exador’s) I am thinking those two are a whole bunch of adventures spanning across a few thousand years.
Lenamare is human, so his back story is easier in that it only spans decades…
I agree, there is a lot to be said for allowing the first impression of a character to stick as the record.
Which is why I am thinking more short story back stories. And maybe not so much biography as “incidents in the life of” which is particularly interesting and relevant for people who’ve been around for a long time.
There are actually authors who manage to write a book with a character and then go back and write origin stories and pull it off. Michael Moorcock and Marion Zimmer Bradley come to mind.
Speaking of MZB, I will once again bring up my recommendation for her brother’s work: PEZ Paul Edwin Zimmer (now deceased) who wrote the Dark Border series. If you want to see the blue print for A Song of Ice and Fire, that’s it (although the pre blue print goes back to JRRT and before that Thomas Mallory I supposed and then Beowulf).
Something like Flakes’ #2 actually happened with a wizard in a D&D campaign I ran continuously during college and sporadically after that.
Except it was the character’s wizard’s apprentice who went back in time and became the wizard, the wizard character had started later in the campaign and just showed up at 7th level, so the tale of how he got to 7th level was told later in the campaign when the older version was 20+ level. Of course, no one knew (including me) that the apprentice (his second, the first one fell down a sphere of annihilation) would end up travelling back in time and becoming the wizard until he ended up time traveling rather by accident, and happened to be 7th level, and while back in time, ran into the party and joined them.
Thereafter he was known as Mooo, the Mobius Magi of Might (like a Mobius strip) (of course by this point the wizard was actually a crown with his soul in a jewel, and he’d spent a good deal of time possessing his apprentice—so this might have something to do with it also)
However, back to the story. I’ve promised no time travel in public spaces….or at least none to solve the Rupert conundrum.
I think that depends on the character and circumstance.
I know there will be “short” stories about some of them. And by “short” I mean novelette. Not sure I can write in less than 200 pages.
But I’m thinking of doing short stories for several, and not sure if those will be in an anthology or just free on the web/this site.
Right now, thinking free on this site, and then collected for people who want a “volume/book” and charging a minimal price for the anthology, they could otherwise read for free here at this site.
comments/thoughts/recommendations welcome…
I think he does it after about the 6th or 7th book.
Actually MZB had some cowriters, especially in anthologies and those generally worked pretty good. Darkover is a complex enough world with a long history to write in that there are a lot of stories, and none are super long. So that’s one place where it works. Of course, those are about lots of different people in different times. Only a few of the stories were actual multipart books.
I think world books can go on for a very long time and still be original. Thieves World is a particularly good example, and there’s a lot of authors writing there.
But a single set of characters…not sure that can legitimately go longer than 6000 or so pages…other than A Song of Ice and Fire, of course. There are always exceptions.
Anyway, I love long series if there is a story being told, but if it looks like the author is just cashing in, then i cash out.
Well that’s pretty a bad job on the art in that case o:)
The scene is inside the tent in Exador’s camp when Jenn and Gastrope’ were tied up and Rupert summoned Tom.
So the girl is Jenn, the boy is Rupert, the guy that’s tied up is Gastrope’ and he’s wearing a turban. There are better pictures of him and his unusual clothes on the site.
On the preview…you should be able to see something like 50+ pages. I really haven’t checked to be honest, I know KLL/KU people can read the first 100 pages before it’s counted as checked out. On Goodreads I have a manually created preview.
The problem with the Amazon store is that I have no control over what they show/don’t show and the size of the preview. I just upload the file and they do what they want with it.
Maybe a preview edition on this site might be an idea. But again, I’m not sure how many people know this site exists, since Amazon does like to keep traffic internal to itself when people are shopping.
