Colleen's Destiny

I found a new publisher, his name is John Smale - emp3books.com
He was recommended by a friend, another author Norman F. Tate - a writer of children's books -  The Witches of Hambone and others.
He has been helpful and encouraging.


My third book in 'The Destiny Series' has now been published.

Why am I Re-Publishing 'Andrew's Destiny'

Over the last week, I have been re-editing my second book, Andrew’s Destiny.

When Mr Reggie Byram, my publisher, accepted my book for publishing, he informed me after a few months that he had edited it for me, spelling and grammar and he removed what he called ‘unnecessary’ material.

When he sent it back to me for checking he told me that I was NOT to attempt to put any of the deleted material back in – in fact I was told not to even read my original work.

This has caused the book to have huge problems – where he has removed certain information; details further on in the book make no sense.  I did try and persuaded him to allow me a add sentence here and there, to get around this, but I felt it did not work with how he had re-written my book.

In one instance he has removed almost a whole chapter, and added a stilted sentence preceding the text of the following chapter.  It made no sense whatsoever.

Reading through the book it looks as if there are two different authors at times.

Mr Reggie Byram was only interested in making money for himself.

If he had asked me to shorten the book, I would have done so.

He wanted my book to be shorter, to him it didn’t matter what it sounded like.  As far as he was concerned it would not be bought anyway.

I’m obviously no seasoned author, but I do know you cannot remove huge chucks of text without it interfering with the story line.

I think it was fortunate that this book was only available for such a short time.

Now I can get it re-published.

I can only apologise to anyone who has already bought a copy.

I had no idea how bad the finished book really ended up, until it was too late to do anything about it.

I am now confident the new version of Andrew’s Destiny, will be a lot more enjoyable.