Status: Working on re-editing Regency Masquerade, fixing those pesky punctuation errors! (8 hours ago)

VeraLoy

Name	Vera Loy
Location	Australia
Member Since	Aug 03, 2011
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Regency Masquerade is my first novel.  I wrote the first half years ago with a biro and paper.  I've now finished and polished it.  I hope you like it!

Thanks to Soniador for her wonderful cover!

You can now find Regency Masquerade on Amazon Kindle!  The first chapter only is still available here.

it was sad deleting those chapters including all the wonderful comments, but the story has been up for 18 months here - it had just reached 126,000 hits so hopefully it will do well on Amazon! :)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BJYOZY8

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Regency Masquerade Chpt 1

Historical Fiction #32 / Non-Teen Fiction #291

4 pages, updated Aug 03, 2011 PG-13

Old fashioned regency romance with a metro sexual twist - Frances comes to London to discover her identity and finds a man she could easily fall in love with - there's only one problem, he thinks she 's a man

26,117 reads

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ItalRT4u
8 hours ago

@VeraLoy lol  Yeah, that happens A LOT!  I'm guilty of it and I'm sure most prolific writers are guilty of it too.  No one said we were perfect despite finding our work great.  Okay...good at least.  lol

VeraLoy
8 hours ago

@ItalRT4u Actually, I should thank her, because I've gone back into the book after a few months absence and discovered a fair few errors (!) mainly apostrophes so I'm taking the opportunity to fix these, make more and smaller chapters and add in some ~~~
I won't be changing the story though :)

ItalRT4u
1 day ago

@VeraLoy How very original huh?  lol

VeraLoy
1 day ago

@ItalRT4u Thanks!  The other one I've seen is ~~~
Decisions decisions!

ItalRT4u
2 days ago

@VeraLoy *** would work. I've seen it used a lot on there.

VeraLoy
2 days ago

@ItalRT4u Thanks for that!  Reading her comments again it sounds like it's supposed to be some sort of 'separator' between different POV or change of scene.  In my other stories I use XXX but she didn't like that for some reason.  However you cant get too fancy on amazon with unusual fonts etc. I suppose I could use *** instead?  Perhaps I'll check out some other books and see what they use.

ItalRT4u
3 days ago

@DemelzaCarlton@VeraLoy There's no set rule for how long or how many chapters any given book can have.  It's a make your own rule kind of thing when writing.  As to the "flourishes" comment, perhaps the person meant "embellishments"?  It sounds like it would be but I'd have to read your book first to really know what they meant.

If it's an American term, I have yet to hear it and since I'm Canadian, perhaps that's why I haven't.  I sense just like@DemelzaCarlton  that it means a page break or separate things a little.

DemelzaCarlton
4 days ago

@VeraLoy It could be...but I'm sure you use them. Underlining your name as you sign a book, saying "Ta-dah!" or adding a few extra notes to a song are all flourishes. It makes something...pretty...but in my head it's a curly sort of line.

VeraLoy
4 days ago

@DemelzaCarlton Thanks! maybe it's an American term?

DemelzaCarlton
4 days ago

Sounds like symbols to replace your x's@VeraLoy . Personally, I'd go a page break, every time. But I have no issues with having 90-odd chapters in a 72k word book :D

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