Excerpts
Posted by Madeline on Nov 14 2008
August 22, 2009
I’ve posted the first two chapters of Pontus Savarik’s first book. To view these chapters, click Here. Don’t forget, the first three chapters of the Silvercatcher, as well as the first chapter of Nyla, are posted below! To check out descriptions of these three books, head over to the Books page.
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Thanks!
May 16, 2009
I have here the first three chapters of the Silvercatcher, the story of Keeri Dretterash. To view these chapters, click Silvercatcher. Below I have the first chapter to Nyla Godard.
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November 15
This is Chapter One of Nyla Godard’s book, a story about a new Silvercatcher struggling to understand what a thousand year old destiny means.
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Please enjoy!
All writing is copyrighted to Madeline Gambino 2009
November 15th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Oh Nyla! I really like her! I was so excited to see the first chapter posted!
January 20th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
that was amazing, if that book was published I would so definately buy it. Though as usual, even with several published books I’ve read there was some things that could have been improved, well two that in particular stand out to me. One is the lack of detail describing the setting, while I was reading it I was having a hard time trying to imagine the town and surrounding area and everything. Second was tha fact that although there was all this bad history with her predessesors, her father and such, her brother was still able to keep in reliable and trustworthy contact with the king and no one in the town seemed to have real issues with the fact that the two of them were his kids. Maybe you’ll introduce later that the prince was keeping an eye on them but for the moment there’s no sense of distrust for the two of them from anybody. Afraid that they might have magic like there father or just decide to take out their resentments on the two of them. Just a thought. And if that’s not the case you might want to mention how lucky she felt all the time that the people around them didn’t seem to bear a grudge against them and such. All in all a great story and I really hope you can get it published one day I definately plan on buying it. Amazing
February 13th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
I love the first chapter. I want to read more on The Silvercatcher. I love Keeri. I like her name too. ^ ^
March 20th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I love the second chapter. When Keeri finally meets Arnic. I can’t wait to read more. The story is really interesting. If it were to be published I would so buy it. ^_^
April 10th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I LOVED IT!!! I am sure you already know this, but you are very very talented. This is original. One thing I hate is reading an excerpt when you can tell it was based off of something else like Twilight(seems to have become popular), Lord of the Rings, etc. However, this is all your own. I love it, and I hope it gets published because I can’t wait to read the rest!!
May 16th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I love the story about Keeri. I can’t wait to read more. By the way does Arnic like Keeri. ^ ^
I was wondering how did you come up with their names.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I just finished the first chapter, and it’s not bad. You have a good story, good characters (love the names, by the way), and interesting ideas. Your writing sounds a bit like mine (in my novel, Dragon’s Queen) before I went back and revised it. I think what you really need to pull people in is more detail. I’ve been learning a lot about that in my Applications of Grammar book, and it’s taught me to paint clear pictures with detail. A writer who does that really well is Brian Jacques. I read his Redwall books, and after that, I saw what was really the matter with my writing.
Anyway, keep up the good work, remember that revising is always a good way to go (even if you don’t think you need it), and I’ll be looking for your book on the shelves of my local bookstores as soon as it comes out. Good luck!
~Victoria
October 1st, 2009 at 8:27 pm
If you are trying to get your work published, I have done some research on this agency with the BBB returning an A+. Eaton Literary Agency has submission guidelines on their site. You might also check out http://www.turnerpublishing.com they accept submissions directly from the author; submission guidelines on their site as well. BBB score A+. Good luck.