Update to my Progress

I hate to say it, but things are going much slower than I was hoping for. As some might know, my wife and I are not well of with money, so I work a lot of hours trying to pay bills. On top of that, I have realized there were some definite editing problems with my first two books, so I have gone back and re-edited Hell in a Storm, and am now in the progress of editing The Descent of Darkness. After that, I will then have to edit my new (old) book, Maroz. Between my job and my editing, I have very little time left. Top that with the fact my wife's step-father for around forty years now, is dying of cancer.As I write this, I am not expecting him to survive the weekend. I do wish I could afford a professional editor. I would then be able to spend my book time with writing rather than editing. But I may as well wish that the back storm cloud that seems to follow me around will break open and start raining money. Once I am finished editing both, The Descent of Darkness, and Maroz, I will finally return to writing The Rise of the Seven, Book-3 of the Demon Siege Trilogy. I would then just have to hope I have the drive to write still. I will not lie. Life is rough right now. With all of the book problems pressing me, and my wife's step-father near to dying, there are plenty of other troubles we are dealing with these days. Most of which are based around financial problems. So far, 2014 has been nothing but one piece of bad news after another. Which is to say, we are right on track to match up with 2012 & 2013. If you have read any of my books and enjoyed it, you can always help by spreading word of it. Go to Amazon and leave a review for it as well, but please be honest.

Looking for Beta Readers - Maroz

Temprorarily named "Maroz", this is a new old book. I wrote it years ago and when agents werent interested, I posted it in a blog. Recently I decided to go back over it, edit it some, change the names of some characters, and maybe give it a better name (if I can come up wth one I like).  Then of course I want to self Publish the book.

I am very close to finishing the re-edit and am looking for friends who would be willing to read it. I cannot pay, but at least you get a free book and some input to make it better.

I would be looking for....

1) Most importantly, mistakes in the story I missed. Things that I might have stated early in the story and forgot all about later.

2) Sentences that bring the reader to a halt because it is not smooth enough or too confusing.

3) If you are any good at editing, and wish to point out my misuse of commas or anything like that, I will not complain, as I cannot afford a professional editor and I know I am not perfect. In fact sometimes I think gorillas have better grammar.

4) Any parts in the story that simply become boring.

5) Not asking for this, but if you should think of better quips to make someone laugh rather than those I used at certain points, feel free to mention them. If you happen to just think... "Man did he miss a chance to do etc..." feel free to mention it. I may or may not agree, but if I like it, I am not too full of myself to make a little change here or there if I think it is better. I am even open to a better title. Anything that makes the book better.

NOTE - As I said, I cannot afford to pay anything for any ideas, or help offered. I can only offer a free ebook and add your name to my acknowledgements page.

Synopsis - A shadow is stretching across the land, threatening to swallow the world in its darkness. Within the shadow, the Lord of Death walks the land of the living, surrounded by his minions of Hell. The hope of the world lies in the hands of the elementals, men who can manipulate the five elements; fire, water, earth, wind, and spirit.

If you are interested in reading this book, please email me at KennethJEster@hotmail.com and let me know a little about yourself.  Do you read a lot of books? What genre is your favorite? Do you have a good knowledge of the English language?  Oh, and a na,e is always helpful. :o)

Impatience is My Greatest Enemy

With the first two books of the Demon Siege Trilogy available, there is a yearning in me to write the third and complete the series. Which would also probably start another series in doing so. I have another entirely different book in the works and about 1/3 finished. I also have a novel I wrote years ago, and ended up placing it on a blog.

At this time, I have decided to work on the completed older story first. When I wrote it, I was still learning how to write. I am still learning how to write, but I have improved in the years. At least I would like to think so. So I figured it would take less time to go over a previously completed story and clean it up, give the characters smoother sounding names and such than it would to write the other stories.  Yet while I do this, I am impatient to get back to the other stories. I have to be wary of this impatience, for I do not want it to make me hurry through fixing up the current work.