Lindsey's Destiny

The last of my 'Destiny Series' will be published on the 6th July 2012. This will be available in many online stores -  Amazon.UK and many more.


Will you keep you posted when the Kindle version is available as well.


Again - many thanks to Philip Grizzell for his outstanding cover design.


I hope my previous readers and hopeful new ones will enjoy the final book to the series.  It answers a number of questions and I think ties everything up nicely.

New Book now has a Title

My new novel is to be called 'My Captive Heart'.


I have been busy editing it and hopefully in a month it will published and available via Amazon Kindle.


Will update here when it's finished.

New Novel

Over the last few months I have begun writing another novel. It is completely separate from the Destiny Series but is still a modern romance.


I have reached the final part of the story now and I'm still without a title.


I have been having mobility problems once again with my knees so I've had some free time to be able to get this far so quickly, while I've been resting.


Will keep you posted when I have a title for the book and when I begin editing.

4 books now available in 'The Destiny Series'

I'm pleased to announce that 4 out of the five books in  'The Destiny Series' are now available in book form and Kindle.

I am currently proof reading the 5th and final book of the series and hope it will be ready for publishing at ether the end of the year or the beginning of 2012.

I've found proof reading gets easier. I read through and edit a couple of times on my PC and then print out the whole book and read it through, marking errors/changes as read through. I've found the diferent format works for me. Then I make the edits and read through again.

The more you read through your work, I've found the better it gets, it tends to flow better with little tweeks here and there.

I read quite a lot and I now often find errors in a lot of other authers books, simple things though that are not easy to pick up on.

For example I, for some unknown reason, often type OUT insead of PUT - your eyes and brain read what should be there and often don't notice something like this.

I have had some feedback recently and I've been told that my books are improoving, which is good to hear.

If anyone reads this, I would love to hear what your methods are for proof reading.

Re-Publishing

I'm having my first two books re-published. Philip Grizzell, the very creative cover designer of my books, has started up his own publishing company called 'Creative Print Publishing'
 http://www.creativeprintpublishing.com/.


Due to the very many errors I found in Andrews Destiny, I re-read through Kristina's Destiny and found silly little errors all the way through the book.  Most of them were errors done by the editing of my first publisher.


I'd also had feed back from some of my readers, some thought the books had been very badly edited and were not very professionally laid out. 

I stupidly believed that everything had been edited when I'd asked it to be done. More fool me!


I will post here when they have both been published and are available as paperbacks.  They are already available in Kindle form.


I can only apologise to anyone who has read my first two books. I hope the errors did not detract too much from the story and enjoyment in reading them.

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.