Changes
Posted on December 06,2009.I had a meeting with this editor recently who’s going to help me with Twin Fangs, my personal project. And I’m glad I’ve made a step forward after all these months of being stuck.
Here’s the current status of my chapters/short stories:
Story 1-2 – for further review
Story 3-5 – has been sent to third party for editing
Story 6-7 – I’m not yet done editing myself
The Title. Yes, you’ve heard it right. It’s no longer called Rapiers: Twin Fangs. It’s just going to be Twin Fangs. To cut the name short I’m removing the name Rapiers as its title and will stick with Twin Fangs alone. Why? The word Rapiers is too defined and based on the feedback I’ve received from the local fantasy fiction industry, the initial book cover for Rapiers doesn’t suit well with the title because the sword is too broad and it doesn’t look a rapier. I said the two swords on the cover were meant to be the Twin Fangs and the crossed rapiers were the empire’s emblem. Well, a book cover shouldn’t be that complicated to explain and I still like the original cover personally. Now that I’m looking back at what Ryan Francisco (the artist) did for me, it was all good. I guess, if Muhammad can’t go to the mountain, the mountain must go to Muhammad. Therefore, I will fit the title of the book for the initial book cover. It just has to be tweaked a bit.
The books. I told him, the editor, I started reading the fantasy genre. And with this premise it could make any serious fantasy book author scratch their head why would anyone dare write a fantasy book if he hasn’t read one? My personal background: computer games and movies. It didn’t do me good.
I was in a Power Books store and I was browsing the titles in the Fantasy section and I picked a Raymond E. Feist. The editor smiled at my choice. If I did ask him, he would have picked that author for me. My first choice was the Dune but at that time, the store didn’t have the first of its six books. I wanted to read the Dune because it’s Jessica Zafra’s favorite and I trust her judgment.
I said I picked a Feist because it was easy to understand compare to the other books of the same genre. And my goal with Twin Fangs was to make it an easy read that even nerdy teenagers or those even as young as 10 to 12 would be able to understand it.
It was a fluke (tsamba).
The editor smiled at me that I have this frustrated look in my eyes every time I talk about Twin Fangs. Who wouldn’t? It’s been years since I started writing it and I feel like I’m just slowly budging from where I started. He said, first books are the most difficult to get published, with quality at that, and it takes years. It’s like everything I feel about it is NORMAL.
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