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Me
The bits you might need to know are: English teacher, school librarian in a 3-18 school, grammatical pedant, Christian. Spend too much time in the fantasy world of work and motherhood!

Books
"Quest for the Unicorn" has now been self published with feedaread.com, and is available on Amazon - it's adventure fantasy for good readers aged 9-10. An innocent kids' plot, but not dumbed-down linguistically. Still trying to decide whether to go down the Kindle route with it as well as POD.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quest-Unicorn-Rachel-Vevers/dp/178176316X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341701823&sr=8-1

"The Rainbow Singer"
I put this here just to "test the water" and I've been so bowled over by the comments I've received (thanks, everyone!) that I'm now seriously working on it again. I'm not really looking for backings, because it's not finished, and I'm not sure the Ed's desk s where I want to go with it ... and I'm trying to spend time writing instead of authonomising, but I will return genuine reads - probably don't comment on Ch 1, just because quite a few kind folk already have!

email :whiteyorkshirerose@gmail.com

favourite books

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson
Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett
Ecclesiastes - (in the Bible)
The Sunne in Splendour - Sharon Penman

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The Rainbow Singer

Rachel V

The year is 1290. What price a bastard child with rare talent?


Nowadays, we would call him a synaesthete.

Dominic de Brereton is The Rainbow Singer. He can play any instrument and sings like a lark. The heart of his talent is the link in his mind between the colours he sees, and the music he makes.


The problem is that such a talent is worth money, and a battle ensues. How can Dominic become the master of his own destiny, when the men around him will stop at nothing to control his life?

 

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rikasworld wrote 81 days ago

Hi Rachel, thanks very much for your support of Broomsticks, which i....

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Hi Rachel, I hope you got into the server again after chapter 2. I....

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Hi Rachel, My novel, Discoredia, is currently sitting in the top 2....

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I wrote 326 days ago

Audrey, Despite the violence, this is a gentle, very Christian book. Caroline is so good that she is perplexed by evil, Paul seems to be the perfect boyfriend. Even his family's taint of alcoholism doesn't really seem to touch him - a boy marked out for goodness. I like the way you set the crime ... view book

I wrote 329 days ago

I really enjoyed this, Lilian, and had there been more I would have read on very happily. My one niggle is that the chapters feel very short. No sooner had I become mentally involved in an episode than it ended, and in some cases, you almost seem to pull your reader back from their immersion deliber... view book

I wrote 330 days ago
I wrote 331 days ago

Very publishable. Professionally written, beautifully structured and deftly characterised, with enough twists to make the reader think twice about the original stories. I would teach some of these in a unit on Fairy Tales, if they were commercially available. Are you trying to market them? You shoul... view book

I wrote 346 days ago

I am working on it again! 40,650 words and rising. Thanks for the encouragement! view book

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