Category Archives: The Redemption of Erâth

Posts about Satis’ ongoing epic fantasy saga.

The Redemption of Erâth: Announcement

Hello, dear readers!

I have an announcement to make regarding redemptionoferath.wordpress.com, which I hope will not cause you undue upset. As of January 1, 2014, I will be retiring this website in favor of the content here at satiswrites.com.

This wasn’t an easy decision to make, and believe me when I say it has nothing to do with either the story of Erâth itself, or you as readers. I’ve found myself recently struggling to keep up to date with multiple websites/blogs, and redemptionoferath.wordpress.com has recently been languishing without much attention.

What I will be doing instead is creating a dedicated section at satiswrites.com for everything related to The Redemption of Erâth, in which will be excerpts from the forthcoming novel Consolation, as well as new chapters from Exile as they are written. I will also be updating satiswrites.com with information and news regarding the path to publication (an exciting journey for me!) and any promotions/giveaways in relation to this.

It’s been a wonderful journey, friends, and I can’t wait for it to continue. I just need to consolidate my own work so that I can make sure to keep everyone up to date with the most relevant information about my writing.

Take care, and thank you to each and every one of you.

Satis 2013

The Redemption of Erâth: The Road to Publication, Week One

So about a week ago I realized that I was basically finished with my novel, The Redemption of Erâth: Consolation, and that there wasn’t a lot left that I could do. The book had been through an editorial review by my publishing company, several rounds of edits in my own hands and those of friends, and finally passed into the hands of a professional editor who gave some fabulous feedback and insight.

I worked hard at making the changes, rewriting some sections of the book entirely, and I’m now feeling pretty happy with the product. So earlier this morning I called my representative at the publishing company and let her know I was ready to submit again.

So begins the journey of my book from letters and words to a real, actual book. I feel like chronicling this journey, so that I can keep track of what I’ve done, and so that you can be kept up to date on where we are, and how soon you’re likely to be able to hold a copy of the book in your hands!

I’ll try to keep a running update each week with regard to where I am in the process, and when deadlines and timelines start to emerge, you’ll be the first to know. For now, the manuscript is off, and out of my hands. I’m a little nervous now, because last time it went through their editorial review process it was suggested that the book would be eligible for their Editor’s Choice award, giving extra recognition and promotion to the book, providing I made that changes that were suggested. I feel like I’ve made those changes now, but this is really the final roll of the dice – if it gets rejected again, I’ll have the choice of going ahead with publication anyway, or face the fact that everything I’ve done up to this point wasn’t good enough.

I’m really, really hoping it doesn’t come to that.

Wish me luck!

The Redemption of Erâth: Editing for the Final Time (I Mean It)

Hello everyone!

It’s been a long time since I’ve talked about The Redemption of Erâth, and I want to assure everyone that I haven’t forgotten about it. Oh no, not in the least. In fact, I’ve been working on it more than ever before, and it’s rapidly approaching the point where it’s ready to ‘move into production’, as my publishing company puts it.

Let me start back in early October. I received the manuscript back from my editor with some wonderfully insightful thoughts and suggestions that helped me see the book in a whole new light. You see, I’d got to the point where I just couldn’t see the faults, I was so close to the material. Having that professional outside opinion was invaluable, and set me on the course for re-editing the manuscript, once and for all.

Some of the major points she made were that I don’t develop Brandyé’s character enough. Oddly, she found that the supporting characters were at times more interesting than the main character (I actually find this true of a lot of novels I read, personally). For instance, I say that Brandyé is a naturally inquisitive person, but I never have anything happen in the book that shows this. He has this mysterious birth that I don’t touch on again throughout the book. For that matter, there are a number of things I don’t return to in the book – one-offs that appear, are interesting in themselves, and then just don’t come back.

Now in fairness, a lot of these things are due to recur in the subsequent novels, but I hadn’t ever stood back and looked at this book as a work of its own. When people read it for the first time, they aren’t going to know about the following novels; it needs to stand alone as-is. This meant removing some content, and rewriting some other content. Some of the chapters, including those involving Sonora, were almost completely rewritten.

She also pointed out that the villains aren’t ‘villainous’ enough. And this is a very fair point. In fact, the villain, the Lord Garâth, is not particularly villainous – merely hungry for power. It’s his son that is the true villain, the one who is evil – yet another thing that will prove exceptionally important in future stories.

So what I’ve been doing since receiving the manuscript and talking with her (it was also wonderful to have the chance to meet her in person and discuss things) is working through the manuscript one page at a time, approving changes, making corrections and writing new material. One of the biggest sources of grief was the dialogue, which Neil Viswanathan will smile at, because the feedback was that it was overly formal and unrealistic. I’ve had to go back through all the dialogue and tidy it up, and I’m sure that there’ll be sections I’ve missed.

And that’s where I’m up to; right at the moment I’m reading through the manuscript one last time, finding the final glitches and mistakes and scanning for continuity, and then…I submit! What I’d love to do (what I’ll certainly try to do) is share a weekly update on exactly what’s happened that week in the path to publishing The Redemption of Erâth.

I can’t wait!

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