Lea Carter's Blog - Posts Tagged "silver-princess"

Ok, I've got the completed manuscript and the cover photo. After I put them together and fill out Amazon and Bowker, I can upload Silver Majesty to the Amazon Kindle website.
Best of all, I will give Silver Princess one last free day (2/14/2013) in honor of Silver Majesty's Kindle release. :-D

Silver Princess began as an attempt to record something that had happened to me, personally. As I wrote in the third person, I accidentally created a character with her own distinct personality and story to be told.
I found myself working in fantasy because it was easy for me to mold and shape. Most genres require a certain deference to existing rules, like gravity or time. Fantasy, on the other hand, is an absolutely blank canvas to be filled with the story as it is created.
I should probably admit that I rarely worry about describing what a character is wearing; in fact, I usually don't know. In general, my characters are wearing modest, sensible clothes that suit the occasion - a dress for a dance and slacks for riding. Right, moving on. ;-)
As a reader I find myself far more interested in what the character is doing and why than in what they are wearing. My style of writing reflects that preference. Silver Majesty was almost a teaching exercise for me. I still spent most of my word count on events rather than clothes and furniture, but I began to enjoy adding a little color and depth to Princess Rebecca's world.
I look forward to finishing Silver Sagas with the third story, whose title I'm still searching for. I also look forward to trying a new genre for me, science fiction. I have written a few short stories in that genre but nothing I was really satisfied with until lately. More on that later. :-)

Silver Verity will be out soon, and it should tie up the loose ends I've left throughout Princess Rebecca's story so far.
I'm currently working on taking the Silver Sagas story in a new direction. It's still set in Fairydom, of course, but it's no longer restricted to just Rebecca's story. Therefore, I'm having a marvelous time getting to know Prince Cambrian, second son of the Sky Fairy King.
Hoping to have Silver Verity available for your enjoyment in the next couple of weeks!

Thanks again for your support, everyone. I hope the book(s) have been enjoyable all the way through as they seemed to be at the beginning. :-)
It isn't the writing alone that takes so long, it's trying up all of the loose ends! I guess you might call it a yarn-hydra. Tie off two loose ends and get four more! lol, no it's not quite that bad. I just have a lot to learn still. Which is why I'm here.
I'd like to do a promotional free period with Silver Princess (#1) and Silver Majesty (#2) on Amazon, in preparation for releasing Silver Verity (#3), but all of my research indicates that having more reviews yields more downloads (even for free stuff, lol). That being said, I'd really appreciate it if those of you who have read either Silver Princess or Silver Majesty (but haven't reviewed them) would please take a few minutes to review them on Amazon (since that's my sales platform). Any and all Goodreads reviews are also (sincerely) appreciated!
Thank you in advance, it really does make a difference.
:-)
Links to their respective Amazon pages can be found here: http://leasbookshelf.blogspot.com/p/b...
Thank you, Lea Carter

I started writing Silver Princess as a means to capture a memory. About sixteen years ago I was in an accident and was knocked unconscious. Up to that point, I had no idea that I could be knocked unconscious! I'd been clotheslined once before, while playing Red Rover at a Church Young Adult activity, and landed flat on a college football field. No helmet. After I recovered my breath, I walked away. But when I came off a young horse and landed on a gravel path not far from my friend's house, well...Mother Nature had to throw some water in my face to wake me up.
When I came to, blinking against the raindrops, I had no idea that single experience would spark a series of books. Books about fairies, no less. :-) Someday maybe I'll try again to record the actual experience, who knows. For now, I just wanted to state that I have never fainted, blacked out, or swooned. So I'm not sure why Princess Rebecca fainted at the sight of Hugh's blood, at the end of the book, except that shock is a valid medical situation. She survived the assassination, or I guess murder is more accurate, attempt, only to find that she'd been lucky. And maybe she was just soft-headed by then, after getting knocked out twice before that in the storyline. lol...
Don't worry, I don't always play that roughly with my characters. And they do tend to fight back, so it can get kind of interesting. That's usually when I start floundering, because I know next to nothing about self-defense. But Silver Sagas began as an accident, including the fact that it ever became a full-blown story instead of just a snapshot of something that happened to me when I was a kid. Lea Carter

I am now in a position to put my books out in print through a Print on Demand company called Lightning Source. I thought that signing the contracts would be the hard part, but now I'm not so sure.
For those of you who have read Sherwood Smith's book(s) Crown Duel, you know that she combined the first two books of that series in a single book printing. Now I'm wondering if that would work for Silver Princess and Silver Majesty. Silver Princess is the shortest, but comes out at over 150 pages when adjusted to a 5"x8" format, which is what will happen when it gets printed.
I haven't adjusted Silver Majesty yet, but I'm worried that putting them together like that will result in a monster of a thick book that really won't fit in an ordinary pocket/purse, etc.
Now I'm polling the audience. Put them together? Or print them separately? And why?