Far After Gold by Jen Black is up on Amazon
Kindle at a very low price!
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The paperback has been lying forgotten on my shelves for a couple of years since Quaestor ceased trading in 2010 due to the owner's ill-health. The book had just over a year of life as a viable paperback, and I suddenly thought - why waste all that effort? why not put it up on Amazon Kindle?
Checking my pc, I didn't have a file for it. None of my USB sticks held a copy. The thought of re-typing it all from the paperback, or scanning it, was not encouraging. Finally I found a copy on an old hard disc, which reminded me How Things Have Changed in a few years!
So I began with an old computer version. I put it into text to take out all the Quaestor formatting, and then began the laborious task of putting all the punctuation back in again. It takes time. As I inserted paragraphs and suchlike, I began tweaking the words themselves; a word here, a deletion there, but soon, I was taking out and rewriting whole chunks. All I can say is I wrote FAG, as I call it, about six or seven years ago, and I've learned a lot since then.
So, it's now a smart, sexy, romantic tale of a young Christian girl bought as a slave by a young Viking warrior.
Here's an excerpt:
“Come with me.”Amazon
The paperback has been lying forgotten on my shelves for a couple of years since Quaestor ceased trading in 2010 due to the owner's ill-health. The book had just over a year of life as a viable paperback, and I suddenly thought - why waste all that effort? why not put it up on Amazon Kindle?
Checking my pc, I didn't have a file for it. None of my USB sticks held a copy. The thought of re-typing it all from the paperback, or scanning it, was not encouraging. Finally I found a copy on an old hard disc, which reminded me How Things Have Changed in a few years!
So I began with an old computer version. I put it into text to take out all the Quaestor formatting, and then began the laborious task of putting all the punctuation back in again. It takes time. As I inserted paragraphs and suchlike, I began tweaking the words themselves; a word here, a deletion there, but soon, I was taking out and rewriting whole chunks. All I can say is I wrote FAG, as I call it, about six or seven years ago, and I've learned a lot since then.
So, it's now a smart, sexy, romantic tale of a young Christian girl bought as a slave by a young Viking warrior.
Here's an excerpt:
“Steady, steady,” he murmured, as
if to a nervous animal. “I thought you’d rather be free of this.” He gave a
couple of gentle tugs on the leather collar at her neck, and before she grasped
his intention, the steel sliced through the hated thing. She never even felt
the coldness of the blade.
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Furious at being frightened and then gentled like a nervous horse, Emer
seized the hated collar and hurled it far out over the loch.
3 comments:
Sounds thrilling, Jan.
Sounds great, Jen. I've twittered and Fb'd it.
Thanks, ladies. It all helps!
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