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I deleted a bunch of posts that referred to your and your characters.

My target audience is Catholics, other Christians, and thriller readers, roughly in that order. I'm trying to minimize gratuitous violence, except for the crucifixions. Even there, I don't show the actual suffering, just the dead body. As for the stabbing, point taken. It may be too violent. I'll have to decide after I've written the first draft. It is an End Times novel, though, so suffering is unavoidable. One example is the two "locals" in the prologue, who are stung repeatedly by demonic locusts from Revelation. I'm happy I added the demons-with-bodies to the story to minimize human-to-human violence, but the shootouts were getting to be too much. Admittedly, I'm not sure if shooting a demon three times with holy water bullets is going to come across as less violent than the shootouts. Demons hit with holy water bullets will disintegrate to nothing, like the chief exorcist did. Demons dissolving into a mass of tissue and bodily fluids will only happen a couple of times until the cops have holy water bullets in chapter 12. Folks on my Catholic forum have told me, if violence is needed in the story, don't take two pages describing it in detail. Angels & Demons is a good inspiration for its Catholic/thriller elements, but the killer blows away cops at every turn, which I don't want. Human cops may be injured in my book but will not die since demons can't aim any better than stormtroopers.

I will eventually post the story on the other review site since it has active Catholic authors. That won't happen until I've written and edited the second draft. Hopefully the feedback won't require a full third draft. In the meantime, Clairedeplume has been providing me with Catholic feedback.

As for a platform, I'm many years away from publishing the first novel and don't want to spend time building an online presence until I'm closer to finishing the book. I may try for a Christian publisher, but there aren't many of them, so I'll probably self-publish.

I think that covers it.

Yup. Desktop version of Amazon also autocorrects your name. There's a small link at the top of the results page that takes you to the proper set of results (the ones I actually asked for), but it's easily missed, especially because their screens are so busy.

You're screwed.
Dirk

Thanks, Randy. Most Catholic literature I've read capitalizes Catholic terms that the CMOS would not. For example, Pope instead of pope. Also, the Council of Cardinal Advisors is a proper noun  I've since found examples online that say both  Council and council are acceptable. I went with lowercase.

Well, this is stupid. Chapterhouse spent a whole book building up the threat of the Honored Matres and, in particular, the Great Honored Matre (aka Spider Queen) only to have her aide kill her with a simple poison in her drink. Did somebody forget about the existence of poison snoopers, a technology that had been around for thousands of years? Not even an exotic poison from the Scattering that advanced Ixian snoopers might not recognize.

https://www.urbandictionary.com

You're right about the caps crap when it comes to earth. Expressions that mention earth are lowercase, otherwise caps. Same goes for heaven and hell. Go to hell is lowercase, whereas Satan lives in Hell. I was fortunate this time around because I use frequent Bible quotes that have to be quoted exactly as found in the Bible, right down to the punctuation. As a result, I'm forced to always write earth, heaven, and hell for consistency with the quotes. Most Bibles use lowercase, including the NRSVCE that I use. Pronouns related to God (he, him, etc.) are also lowercase.

Problem solved. The DNA sample disappears from the lab before it can be analyzed. What she doesn't know is that she's being watched at every turn by demons, who are trying to keep her from determining whether or not Connor is her son.

You might as well berate a cow for eating grass.
-- Chapterhouse (book six in the Dune series)

As long as you understand that "credit" comes in the form of being made fun of as characters in the book. For example, Kdot (formerly K.) appears as Lady Kay (a femme fatale). Also appearing are Janet Reid (a male ship's AI that fantasizes about becoming Queen Aussie), Janet Taylor-Perry (a child serial killer who invents all the poisons used in the book), njc (appears as the equation N=j^c2 needed for time travel in a coconut-powered time machine), and our dearly departed friend, Amy S, who appeared as Dr. Amy Ess, a vaccine inventor who brought civilization to its knees in the late 21st century, making the rest of the story possible.

Do you fancy yourself as a one-eyed parrot with a wooden leg who swears like a sailor?

You might as well berate a cow for eating grass.
- Chapterhouse

Unless things have changed, you can give regular reviews. I'm not sure about inline.
Send a message to Sol, or maybe he'll see this and answer.

Welcome to the site. Don't worry too much about the legacy accounts. Many people sign up for a free trial, but then realize they can't make enough time to be a serious writer. We also have many legacy accounts from an older site that was replaced by this one.

In honor of Australian writers past and present, I give you an excerpt from a book I was working on a few years back. Set in the year 4017.