Rachel Caldecott
Full Member
Normally I'd post this in the Steam Room, but my membership slipped back to basic when I came off worse in a head-to-head battle with a bailiff (long story).
As older members will remember I've been banging on about writing a time-slip novel for several years. I think it is finally 'finished', but I don't know; I can no longer read it objectively. Thanks to the aforementioned bailiff, I can't pay anyone to read it, so I wanted to know if anyone here would have the time to read it through from start to finish and give me their impressions. I have to add a trigger warning... my characters swear.
In a nutshell, the story is this:
Clearing her deceased grandmother's house, Maya Zerffi, a young and earnest human rights journalist discovers an old family diary. Touching it with bare hands transports her back in time. However, the phenomenon is not caused by ghosts, magic or reincarnation; but by Science. A unique combination of ink and paper moulds causes vivid hallucinations. As she, her twin brothers, and her best friend dive in and out of the diary, they follow the lives of their ancestors, Jolana and Gustavus Zerffi, as they flee the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Maya sees that the potential for doing good in the world (through education and awareness raising) is vast... but so is the potential for exploitation, misinformation, and evil.
When one brother attempts to sell the diary, the family is confronted by the insatiable greed of a huge multinational. For nearly 20 years, the Turul Corporation has been waiting for the diary to be brought to light, and they will stop at nothing to get their hands on it.
So if anyone out there has the time to read it, and wants to, please message me and I'll send along a PDF. Thank you!!!
As older members will remember I've been banging on about writing a time-slip novel for several years. I think it is finally 'finished', but I don't know; I can no longer read it objectively. Thanks to the aforementioned bailiff, I can't pay anyone to read it, so I wanted to know if anyone here would have the time to read it through from start to finish and give me their impressions. I have to add a trigger warning... my characters swear.
In a nutshell, the story is this:
Clearing her deceased grandmother's house, Maya Zerffi, a young and earnest human rights journalist discovers an old family diary. Touching it with bare hands transports her back in time. However, the phenomenon is not caused by ghosts, magic or reincarnation; but by Science. A unique combination of ink and paper moulds causes vivid hallucinations. As she, her twin brothers, and her best friend dive in and out of the diary, they follow the lives of their ancestors, Jolana and Gustavus Zerffi, as they flee the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Maya sees that the potential for doing good in the world (through education and awareness raising) is vast... but so is the potential for exploitation, misinformation, and evil.
When one brother attempts to sell the diary, the family is confronted by the insatiable greed of a huge multinational. For nearly 20 years, the Turul Corporation has been waiting for the diary to be brought to light, and they will stop at nothing to get their hands on it.
So if anyone out there has the time to read it, and wants to, please message me and I'll send along a PDF. Thank you!!!
I will pm you my address
