Tag Archives: novel

Jun 20 2013

Thoughts on the serialized novel

I’ve put up sections yesterday and today that haven’t had any editing but checking for misspelled words, etc. From here on out, I’m going to be writing it in what time I have in between editing the one I’m submitting and rewriting the second. I’ll still be posting, but it won’t be a daily thing. It might be once a week or every other week for example because I want time to edit each section and give you a polished product instead of just throwing something up just to have it. I think you’ll thank me for it.

As for how it’s going to go, I never know how a story’s going to go once I start one. I let it grow biologically, so even I get surprised where it takes me sometimes. That means we’ll be learning where it’s going together.

Thanks for your readership!

Jun 16 2013

Crystal Singer

I thought I’d write about a book that I found fascinating when younger and wish I owned. It’s called ‘The Crystal Singer’ by Anne McCaffrey.

The novel centers around a young woman named Killashandra  Ree, who has spent ten years studying to be an opera singer and fails. One day she runs into a man at the spaceport and they get to talking. After a whirlwind romance, she learns what he does for a living and eventually (for reasons I don’t want to give away) follows him back to the world of Ballybran.

Ballybran is the source of crystals that power the engines and communications systems of Anne’s world. However, only singers with perfect pitch can operate the voice activated cutters. And there’s a catch: there’s a spore that invades a person’s body when they arrive on Ballybran. Some people die from it, others only partially adapt (leaving them deaf but with high visual acuity among other things) and the ones who fully adapt are the crystal singers.

The spore keeps it’s host alive for hundreds of years, but the only ones who can leave the planet are the singers and they only can for short vacations. So, with that said, what happens to Killashandra?

You’ll have to read and find out.

Pick it up and check it out.