I want peoples' opinions about a book i may be publishing... Its about a girl in her sophomore year who likes a senior, but he's already told her he loves her as a little sister, before she even ever confesses. she desires to go to the same collage he does after she graduates and confess her love for him... How does it sound? If its bad then tell me i can take it... or if its good. then i thing i can also take that.... maybe not.... :P

Also if you will like to read and help do the editing the first one to privet message me will get it. and if i want more than one then i will do it. it just depends how well i think you are for editing. of course i will test you... :D

I'll try to be as realistic as a publisher would be for you during their interview.

It's clichéd. It will sell only for half a week because it'd be advertised as "new fiction" at the front of B&N. From the grammar in the summary posted above --- using the word likes instead of loves, pushing an even-ever clause --- you will not get anyone outside of the 10-15 year (Grade 4 English) range, which means small sales, which means a publisher wouldn't want to back you. This leaves you to independent publishing, which requires a lot of personal cash, and you won't get any publicity from publisher book clubs.

That makes sense I totally agree with you! Thanks for the comment! I thank you for the comment!

It's very difficult for me to comment on the premise of your book with so little information, so I'll refrain for now.

Moving onto editing... Editors exist mostly to help authors fine-tune their works. They shouldn't be used to fix basic things, like grammar or spelling, in large amounts. Only sparingly (for the occasional slip-up). In other words, it's mostly the author's responsibility to get the grammar at least 97% correct before an editor first sees the work. Use computer spelling and grammar-checkers if you need help with those.

A fiction editor should be treated as a partner in helping you create a coherent (logically ordered) and complete (no missing necessary exposition) original story that doesn't overuse hackneyed phrases or techniques. They help you spot errors of that nature and give you ideas on how to fix them.

In the meantime, I hope you'll read a wide variety of literature. Draw from many genres for ideas and inspiration. Don't limit yourself to the romance genre, or you'll find yourself too easily mimicking common romance-writing techniques. Also keep writing and getting feedback on your writing, and keep learning, so you can improve your grammar and not be too dependent on an editor for those kinds of things. Good luck. =)


You can read a bit more about editing at this webpage (http://www.sfwa.org/for-authors/writer-beware/editors/).

Thanks it means a lot to me! your to nice! i will definitely try harder! ^__^

Yeah, glad to help. Please write some more. I'd love to read it and help review your stuff, but a one or two sentence premise isn't much to go on, ya know?

I think story has a lot to do with characters in which are involved throughout the whole story... so I can't say if I'll like it or not... but if the characters are good... then it's a refreshing story.

Alright thanks for thee comment I thank you for it!

Were you planning on writing the book in Japanese or English? Because, well, to put it bluntly... none of the grammar you've used in any of your posts so far is correct.

I am not sure yet. Right now I am going to school for both to become an English lit. Teacher in Japan.

Well I hope you do well. :D

Thanks!!!!!!! I hope I go good! I love writing, but I just hopes it comes out as good as it is in mind!

I'd recommend a quick gloss of the CCC Grammar (http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/) site. It's very concise about things in an approachable way.

Thank you so very much!!!!!!!! ^__________^