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Those of you who have been around a while and who have seen my posts know that I have been writing a book for some time. I am about halfway through a major rewrite that was inspired by comments made by a publisher, he liked my style and the overall book but felt it dragged too much at the beginning. I also recently discovered a website called webook where prospective writers can post their work for review and editting. Thing is I don't like the idea of openning it up to the general public audience, so I am considering posting it in the private section where I can extend invites and or except invites for peer review. My plan is to get comments and edits on the book through webook and then selfpublish through createspace. As I do not have a large amount of funds just lying around I was planning to reimburse anyone who helps me with the book by listing them in the dedication section and sending them a free copy of the book. So if they are any interested parties please reply here and early next week I will post the first few chapters of the book.

Spiral War: Academy

PS, I am also looking for a cover artist, my wife, a very talented artist, has volunteered to do the cover, but is too busy with the house, kids, animals, etc... to get much work done on it.

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Those of you who have been around a while and who have seen my posts know that I have been writing a book for some time. I am about halfway through a major rewrite that was inspired by comments made by a publisher, he liked my style and the overall book but felt it dragged too much at the beginning. I also recently discovered a website called webook where prospective writers can post their work for review and editting. Thing is I don't like the idea of openning it up to the general public audience, so I am considering posting it in the private section where I can extend invites and or except invites for peer review. My plan is to get comments and edits on the book through webook and then selfpublish through createspace. As I do not have a large amount of funds just lying around I was planning to reimburse anyone who helps me with the book by listing them in the dedication section and sending them a free copy of the book. So if they are any interested parties please reply here and early next week I will post the first few chapters of the book.

Spiral War: Academy

PS, I am also looking for a cover artist, my wife, a very talented artist, has volunteered to do the cover, but is too busy with the house, kids, animals, etc... to get much work done on it.

For what it's worth I am a professional technical writer and proofreader at an instructional design firm. If you've got something interesting to read I'd be happy to read over it not only for content, syntax, spelling & clarity but I also have a pretty firm grip on what makes for a good story (not that I can manage writing anything of significant length myself)... I routinely edit proposals for million dollar propositions between my company and the major auto manufacturers and write online lessons.

So, that said, I hereby volunteer and will do it as long as you put "Thanks to (my name here)" in there somewhere. If that sounds like a plan to you and you can give me a week or so to get through it (longer dependent on length...)...

So yeah.

Shoot me a PM if you're interested.

-Nick, AKA RF-26

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Hey there Knight26,

I'm really nothing but a simple reader, a fan of all kinds of sci-fi. So I certainly wouldn't tout myself as any kind of expert, but I would consider it a priveledge to be able to check out your work and give you an opinion or any suggestions that may come to me.

Just let me know what you need me to do and hopefully my input can help out in some way.

Hope to talk to you soon,

Bill

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Will have the book ready by the end of the week, was sick this week and did not have time to work on it, any more takers?

Well I'm a lover of good sci fi and I hate robotech - do I qualify? :)

I would be happy though to give you my thoughts and see if I can pick up any "drafting errors"..

Hmmm... and I'm also a big fan of Ender's Game (even before Macross F).

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Hey everyone, I have finished with my rewrite and am ready for the review/editting cycle. Anyone who is interested please fill out the attached form and e-mail it to me at the e-mail address within. This is just a standard contract, more to cover my butt from anyone stealing the book then anything else, and it will also provide me with your addresses so I can send you the book when it publishes.

contract.doc

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There is a short synopsis on my website, see below, on the about page. As for what I was looking for in a cover the idea I had was to have the following, In the lower left corner three of the main characters would stand, Blazer in his standard duty uniform, Marda in her flight (but pealing out of it, helmet off and removing the chest armor, and Arion in his combat armor, helmet off. leading up and to the right a trio of trainers would be seen flying up and away from the trio towards the academy on its home asteroid. And the background would feature a spiral galaxy or similar stellar structure. I could make it myself based on some of the artwork I have on hand, but it would look disjointed and not very good IMHO. I would off course provide all needed reference material for the artwork.

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