Showing posts with label Scourge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scourge. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 March 2013

Wouldn't it be nice

If I could remove my Goodreads copy of Scourge?

I uploaded Scourge when I didn't entirely understand Goodreads. I have absolutely no idea what version is currently on there - but it's been on there since sometime in 2012, which would have been when the first version went live on Amazon. Since then, I recall having made some rewrites. I have no idea if people who have reviewed or starred have read the version which was available on Kindle/Smashwords or Goodreads, therefore I have no idea what versions they've reviewed. It also appears that once something is on Goodreads, its there forever and I'm not permitted to change my cover art? It shows its old, when this is the cover displayed:


That there was the original cover I created with a free image before Kate made my other cover which I've been using forever now. Its a bit lame. It shows nothing about the book and blah it's not the proper cover anymore.

Scourge disheartens me sometimes. It was my first book which I probably should not have rushed to get out there, because I didn't have anyone to read it and check over any issues with plot, characters or spelling and grammar errors. I still need someone to look at Averan to make sure it's going all right. I have completely abandoned the 'different character every chapter first person narrative' I tried in Scourge. My problem I had then and sort of now is that I am not a huge fan of third person narrative because I don't think I do it very well, so I favour speaking as a character in first person - of course for Averan, I have decided that only Emily speaks in first person, so if I need another character to take over for a chapter - they're pushed to third person because it can be confusing switching between characters all screaming in first person narrative.

I know Scourge says it's the first book in the series, but due to all the problems I have had with it I am not looking at going back to it any time soon, although I have made some amendments to the print version which I am only vaguely considering taking to the Comic Con in August/September.

I hope I can get someone to look over Averan. Having read reviews on Goodreads I can't say I'm feeling like writing right now. LIKE EVERY DAY!

Thursday, 8 March 2012

Author of Scourge and not much else

My name is Sarah Harding-Roberts and I frequently forget about blogs I have in my possession. I recently published my book Scourge on the Kindle and Smashwords markets, which is a book set in modern Cardiff and marks the arrival of the demon turned good Lilith Black. Once known as Lilith the Scourge, Lilith ceased terrorising the mortal population after millions of years of causing pain and fear after she felt the love of a small group of mortals who were willing to accept her into their village in 800BC regardless of her differences.

After a miserable life once she lost her lover and many of her new friends several years later at the hands of her angered demon friends, Lilith spent time on the Titanic, and witnessed the sinking first hand as she attempted to avoid an attack from an enraged angel called Matias. Lilith found herself on the wrong end of a mystical crossbow arrow and pinned to the side of the ship as it broken apart and crashed into the ocean.

Lost to the world for ninety seven years, Lilith is rediscovered by two explorers, whose presence stirs consciousness in her, which brings her back from her coma-like state.

Her return sparks anger among her once friends, who had already started their plans to take the mortal coil by force after centuries of being locked away in the depths of the Hell dimension by Matias' own brand of Angelic justice - only a few thousand demons still elude his power in the UK.

Lilith finds herself wandering the streets of Cardiff, befriends three human students and must learn to cope in the incredibly technology focused world she is now a part of, all the while dealing with the return of long deceased lovers, recently deceased sexual predators, a spell as a mortal and the invention of the microwave.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scourge-Lilith-the-ebook/dp/B0078ERD1K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331203187&sr=8-1