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Jim Ellis

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in Manhattan, The United States

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Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy

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December 2012

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As a child I always loved reading comic books and other light reading. I was never really one to read books of deep substance. I remember taking my lunch money in seventh grade and using it to buy comic books now and then. My parents were not happy when they figured out what I was doing and took my small collection away from me. It hurt watching them be thrown into the trash. Being a preacher's son was different, I was not allowed such books.
After high school however, I collected them for a while before finally giving my collection to a young man who now writes for Marvel Comics. I moved on to reading novels, still lighter in nature for the most part. The Hobbit and The Talisman were the two I liked the most. I probably read The Talisman As a child I always loved reading comic books and other light reading. I was never really one to read books of deep substance. I remember taking my lunch money in seventh grade and using it to buy comic books now and then. My parents were not happy when they figured out what I was doing and took my small collection away from me. It hurt watching them be thrown into the trash. Being a preacher's son was different, I was not allowed such books.
After high school however, I collected them for a while before finally giving my collection to a young man who now writes for Marvel Comics. I moved on to reading novels, still lighter in nature for the most part. The Hobbit and The Talisman were the two I liked the most. I probably read The Talisman at least four or five times. If it had magic, action, supernatural abilities, I was in. In the past few years I read the Twilight Saga and most all of the World of Warcraft novels. Yes, I know, it is a video game but the books are fantastic and I found each of them hard to put down.
In the summer of 2009 I decided to start writing a book of my own. I had the time and I was feeling creative so I began. At first I was pouring words onto my screen as fast as I could type. After page ten, I started slowing down. Two years later, I had not made it to page 40 yet. Finally, in 2011 I became more serious and finished writing "Gifted" in the summer of 2012.
As long as it took me to finish writing the book, I never dreamed how dificult it would be to edit it. It seemed that every time I read it I found more errors. I am sure if I were to go through it again, I would find a period out of place. I am also sure that if an English major were to read it, they would find ways of improving it.
I sent many query letters and recieved many rejection letters. After some research I found I could self publish on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. With some help from a fellow author, I obtained a nice looking cover and now am working on promoting the book. Gifted is the first of what will be a trilogy as I have already started on the second book tentively called Gifted: Birth of a Vampire. ...more

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Revising GIFTED

With certain things about my book brought to my attn, use of redundant phrases, character development, and a storyline that moves too fast. I have decided to do a complete revision of the book. The story will stay the same, however, I plan to put a bit more history into the characters, I also want to build a bit more romance between a couple characters (but not too much as the first book is suppos Read more of this blog post »

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message 4: by Jim

Feb 02, 2013 04:50PM

Another few pages done on my second book. I hope to hear good news on GIFTED as I am having it edited more professionally. My goal is still to have the second book done by Summer, it will be called Birth of a Vampire. The third book should be done by Christmas, no name yet for it.

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message 3: by Jim

Jan 25, 2013 09:55AM

GIFTED will be on sale for only .99 this weekend!!

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message 2: by Jim

Jan 22, 2013 07:08AM

I have had some problems with my categories on Amazon. As a result, GIFTED has fallen into an abyss and is nearly invisible amongst the thousands and thousands of other books. I am still experiencing the problem and hope it will be fixed this week. I tried a .99 sale which failed to pull it out. Going to go back to writing my second one for a while.

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message 1: by Jim

Jan 18, 2013 04:48PM

GIFTED is on sale for a limited time for only .99!!! Revised and improved = )

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