I haven’t been on my website for a while and in the meantime, I’ve created a new romance novel so different from what I’ve written before. In the past, my novels were about heaven and hell, angels and demons, cherubs, etc. And I’ve a couple more in the making sometime down the road.
However, in this new novel, "Whispers of the Wildwood”, I've decided to step out of heaven’s realm into a new magical realm outside of mortal lands, while keeping to a romance theme. Originally, the book was titled, “Shadows of Elysium.” Well, I should have done my research because there was a novel already with that title and another one close, and both had less than 4 star reviews, which means there’s a lot of people who found fault with those books. When I’m choosing a novel to read, I like to see over 4 stars so I know the majority of readers found the book entertaining. Now that’s not always the case. There’s a series of books about heaven and its angelic creatures engaged in war, etc. The book has over 30K reviews so who knows how many people read it. I loved the idea behind the story, but the way in which it was written was like reading a political war in heaven. I do not care at all for politics. But liking the story idea and the first couple of chapters, when the author started diving into the politic, I decided, I was not going to read the entire novel nor the followup novels. What I did do, was read the first few chapters, until the put-me-to-sleep political conflicts began between angels and then I skipped to the last few chapters - and I missed nothing of value - simply to find out how it ended. Fabulous stories read that way, and that was the way I reviewed the rest of his novels with apologies to the author. What I could not understand was how he got so many reviews for that type of novel. There must be a huge number of people who enjoy reading about political intrigue. I’m not one of them, and thus, you will not see any obvious politics in my novels, but a lot of conflict between certain characters, namely the king and queen and their divine council, and a bit of the erotic. I thoroughly enjoyed writing this romance novel and the characters, as well as the evil ones who caused so much conflict. And one sought redemption. One main character starts out as a rogue, becomes a wonderful guy who, because of his cheating wife, falls from grace, briefly. (He cannot be too good.) The wife-to-be starts out as pure and then being enchanted (so she has an excuse for her behavior) falls from grace and leaves the king her husband for a nefarious character. You guessed it, the enchanter who uses her poorly. How it all turns out is for you to find out. There’s an excerpt on page one of the website with the first sixteen chapters included. Enough to intrigue you further I hope. And with any luck and some diligence, I may be back to write another blog in the near future.
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