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In Wiccan terminology, a moon day is when you bleed for your period. Not positive but pretty sure on that.

Pony up, New Jersey.  How old are you?

K?  (the mysterious man who releases a fact each month in the hope that someone will show up at his doorstep and freak him out)

To answer the same question as I'm asking, I am also 21. I've been 21 almost 29 times, in fact.

Toot Toot New Jersey!

Classy.  However, Janet and I both have 2 boys each. Farts are part of waking up and daily conversations. Better than Folgers coffee in the morning.

Eh, give him a glorious shiner and swollen eye. You can fracture his face and he can still fight. He'll have an awesome bruise, but nothing will stop him from playing with a sword.

What you said sounds reasonable.

Remember that if you fracture a nose really well, you get black eyes on both sides. However, you can usually see out of them unless the orbit got cracked

As to being worth half of the TNBW fee…well…shucks! I'm remembering that commercial…Cost of a TNBW membership…50 bucks. The cost of a self-published book…couple hundred bucks….the cost of verbal abuse and someone tearing your life's work to pieces just for the fun of it?  Priceless :-)

I love you guys.

I've read this thread twice and I'm still trying to figure what to do. I absolutely agree with previous posts that Jaylene needs to be talking to Kha rather than Melody. Jaylene gets mentioned in the other book, while Melody is a side character for now.

I agree that a common prologue or starting point to each story that links it to the Earthwound is a fabulous idea. I've underplayed the concept thus far because the answer isn't going to be found in these books (rather than making the Earthwound the focus and then failing to deliver) No one except Airen remembers what happened and Kha won't believe her in the beginning.

I agree that there can be clues in each prologue that forces a person to go back and reference the material.

I agree that the magic has to be established in the first paragraph so that the reader knows this is a fantasy world. Elisha did it. One other that I've read has done it. I'm still working on that skill.

I agree that it needs to be trimmed. It seemed to wander IMO, but I got all the necessary info into the chapter. And I got to put Kha into a diaper. Nothing makes me happier than making that man squirm.  It is one of my true delights in life.

Janet, I'd love for you to read the romance parts of my story. I didn't manage to get the bubba-hubba-bang-bang parts written. It's more like mind-games-pet-pet-smooch (and then curtain goes black). However, I'm pretty proud of Kat and Anver as they figure out they are a couple.  If you want, I'll figure out which parts are juicy and have you read them out of sequence.

Either way, I'm going to make a try to satisfy the limitations that you guys have placed before me. As I said before, what is a couple more thousand words? 

First a review or two as thanks for you guys.

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I'm game to try. it is an interesting challenge. I tried to put a brief flashback in Jaylenes story (first draft) but deleted it because Alda was a better beginning.

I have two days off. Some of that time will be for writing.

Helluva week. Major overtime before Xmas, but it is seriously limiting my fun. People keep shooting each other. They are doing a major wreck-job on my ability to relax at work.

Not even close. Just getting ready for the big day. Kind of like collecting stuff for my hope chest. I don't want to dive into the many pieces of marketing that will be required. So I joined Facebook last year. This year, I'm going to make the website and started using Twitter to watch and keep track of publishers (not friends). The year after that, I'll probably make a Facebook-exclusive author site. Till then, I'm just assembling the pieces.

Why not? This publishing house also takes submissions for romance. Wanna take a class with me? Please, please, please? The class critiques each other on a forum as people revise their letters. What better thing than to have someone else on the forum who knows the book almost as well as you do?

#fingerlessgloves=guilt

I'm working on the twitter thing. How am I doing?

OK, that's funny!

Just to spite you all, I'm going to listen and take the advice. (As opposed to others who will remain nameless.) What's another 10 thousand words? Piffle.

Oh, I started researching publishers. I found one who is willing to read submissions about high fantasy and she is teaching a class on how to write a query letter. What better way to get your foot in the door? It is only $99. Anybody interested? It starts December 1.