Any of you wanna critique the sample chapter? It’s too late to make changes, but any over coyness or clunky phrasing can be taken into account when writing my next book . . .
Again, please bear with me, this is just my way of jumping up & down and yelling “woo-hoo!” in a Homer Simpsonlike manner!
How do you do it? T.V. interviews, AMC, writing biographies. I write fiction and the amount of research I have to do is close to annoying.
Yet you do all of this plus, you are here at this distracting, production reducing, addictive, board.
Kudos
Whew! I’m going to have to print that out and pore over it to see if I can improve it at all, or only “improve” it (I’m sure you know the difference).
I’ll email you my edits if you really want me to…some people say they want your criticism when they really just want you to tell them it’s wonderful. (I am not, of course, insinuating that you are one of those people.)
Eve Golden once again picks up her brush, and with bold, sure strokes, paints for us yet another portrait of a bygone era. This time, the spotlight is on Anna Held, the charismatic and enigmatic darling of Broadway at the turn of the century.
Golden’s meticulous and scholarly research reveals to us such little known facts as Held’s Jewish parentage, her previous marriages and an estranged daughter, while deftly weaving a tapestry of sights, sounds and events of a magical era that is long gone.
We discover that, were it not for Held, there might never have been a Zigfield Follies. Golden takes us by the hand and leads us to Paris to introduce us to the Folies Bergere, bring us back to new York and shows us Broadway as it was, takes us behind the scenes and into the lives of the famous, the almost famous and the infamous. She leads well, for she knows the way.
In conclusion, buy this book, or I will hunt you down and kill you.
Dubbed The Skunk of Holes by some putz who’s name I have fortunately forgotten.
Thanks, y’all, I hope you enjoy it! Boy, this thread sure jumped up around lunchtime!
Wally—Are you hinting that you want to be quoted on my back cover? “Buy this or I’ll kill you!” says WallyM7 of the SDMB!
Chef—What I really would like is STYLE critiques; if my publisher spelled something wrong (there are a few missing punctuations and misplaced itals in the piece online, which better not show up in the book!), I don’t wanna know, as it’s too late to fix.
But if you think I’m being overly glib, or not glib enough, or use run-on sentences, etc. Y’know, things I can watch out for in my next book.
Wally, Eve autographed my copy of “Vamp”. The result? All of my friends are very jealous - the message was a personal inside joke and hilarious any way one reads it. Our Eve doesn’t dissapoint!
Eve! What are the names of your other books again? I look for your name every time I go to Borders, but I never see it. I am desperate for that Theda Bara book! And now that I’ve got a credit card, I may have to do some shopping online.
Unless you wanna send me a free copy…
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