I have been anxiously waiting for a response from a Kindle publishing company that I want to use to publish The Vault. Here below is their response:- Further to our exchange of e-mails I have now had the opportunity of reading and fully appraising The Vault and can honestly say without reservation that it is one of the most compelling and stand-out pieces of writing in the fictionalized memoir genre I have been presented with in quite a while. There are many positive features to the work and you evidently have a gift for the manipulation of the written word; writing as sophisticated as this cannot be taught, it is innate. What strikes me most strongly about the book is just how authentic and absorbing it is, and this fits well with much of the content. You are fortunate enough to be able to follow the writers’ golden rule and written about what you know well. As a result, the book has a very immediate feel to it, aided by the method of narration you have chosen. The reader is able, from the very first paragraphs - and this is essential - to feel completely absorbed in the narrative, bound by its ring of truth and authenticity to be confident in the unfolding of events and to suspend disbelief and allow himself to flow wherever the novel may take him. The opening paragraphs are particularly striking and highly dramatic and the use of ‘the Rider’ almost as a nebulous being not entirely of this world at that particular time provides an element of mysticism rarely found in this type of book. Speaking of flow, there is a great deal of fluidity to the work and no odious bumps or jolts that hint as to when the writer has put down his pen, so to speak, then picked it up again at a later date. Your work is smooth and cleverly structured so that the reader, if he has to, can pause at various intervals, before re-commencing reading, without losing sight of the plot and without finding it difficult to become submerged in the content of the book once again. This is a particularly impressive achievement when one considers that this is quite some tome at something approaching 300,000 words. In terms of the plot, you did not exactly make it easy for yourself by the use of a combination of a disrupted chronology and the autobiographical emphasis and the seemingly compelling need to ‘tell it the way it is’ which results in the book being extremely intricate, and yet you have structured and constructed it in a way that makes it accessible and easy enough to follow for your target audience; you fuel their imaginations whilst stretching them significantly and introduce new elements at just the right time which will keep the often bemused mind busy and active long after they have finished reading. Of course, the individual elements of the plot are by no means new but rarely have I seen them handled with such confidence. As far as I could tell, the result is a seamless piece of writing which captures the attention at the very beginning and holds that attention throughout. Interestingly, books of this type have a tendency to be either plot driven or character driven but The Vault combines these elements to add yet greater strength and quality to the work. It is, therefore, also a plot in which the characters play an absolutely integral role and the story depends as much upon the nature and actions of the characters as it does upon the various plot points and twists and turns. This brings me to your characterisation itself. Clearly, the protagonists Jason is a very strong and realistic character as one would tend to expect, and I very much like the fact that the narrative revolves around this character who is carefully formulated and filled out. You also handle the minor characters very well, too. Each has been given due attention and all are beautifully three dimensional, to such an extent that the reader can easily imagine knowing them in person, so to speak, regardless of age, race or background. It is clear that you have invested a great amount of thought into the creation of each and every one. Thus what happens to the characters is important to the reader, no matter of mere indifference; once a reader has become so engaged with a fictional individual, they take on something of their fictional life, making it their own and compelling them to read on. Essential to the creation of wholly believable characters is the use of wholly believable dialogue, and you have not appeared to struggle with direct speech at all. In fact, it is one of the book’s most impressive features. There is a good balance of dialogue in the work, which is part of what makes it both character and plot orientated and so real to the reader. It can be a tremendous stumbling block for a great many authors and it is easy to fall into various traps - speech that is stilted and staid, placing words in characters mouths that simply are not used in conversation, or including too much (or too little) speech. Your verbal exchanges between characters ring entirely real as being the words spoken by all the characters and this is very clear from the early exchange between which culminates in Sarah’s death. Direct speech is introduced when necessary and appropriate and the conversations are vivid so that the reader can imagine himself to be a fly on the wall, eagerly taking in the conversation. This is a very visual book, which will doubtless easily conjure many images in the mind of the reader and, due to this and the strength of the dialogue, it would, in fact, be relatively easy to convert the novel into a script for a screen or television play. As scouts regularly search for successful Kindle books to convert to a visual medium (to which this book lends itself particularly well) this is also something to keep in mind for the future. For these reasons, as well as the impressive nature of the writing itself, I feel that now is the opportune time to publish and that Kindle is the most suitable platform that could be used in order to attract the kind of audience who will find your book appealing. The vast majority of your target demographic most certainly now prefer Kindles and e-readers to conventional paperback books and a work which is so immeasurable in terms of what it has to offer, easy to download and very competitively priced, will be hard to resist. So, all that said, there is no doubt that this book would be a highly credible one published on Amazon’s Kindle. So with this positive response I will go ahead and publish my first attempt at a novel. Jason.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:57:16 +0000
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