Crescent Suns e-Books is a co-op non-publishing house agency, designed with the intention of helping those indie authors who are not certain how to publish their stories or how to produce a quality cover for the stories they are ready to publish. We also (for a nominal fee) will read through your finished manuscript and proof it to eliminate common errors in spelling, grammar, syntax, formatting, etc., providing you, the author, with each error needing to be corrected. For a slightly higher fee we will edit your manuscript for you, eliminating all of the above errors without altering the flavor or intent of your creativity.
We do not accept every author who asks for help, mostly because some who have emailed Crescent Suns e-Books are already so polished that they have no need of our services, yet only lack the confidence to publish their stories on their own. We also will not accept those authors who by our estimation have no talent or skill in writing and would be wasting their money and our time enlisting our services. Yes, we realize this may only be our opinion, but that is the one we must stand by. Any story we decline is not with intent to belittle the author or the work submitted; it simply does not meet the criteria we set. Each author not accepted by Crescent Suns e-Books is perfectly able to publish his or her own works at Smashwords.com without our assistance. We wish all of you well in your endeavors.
Still others subscribe to the services of Crescent Suns e-Books by having us act on their behalf as their publisher online. That does not eliminate the need for those authors to "get the word out" on each of their authored masterpieces, since there is only so much we as a publisher can accomplish, but we are willing to assist in every manner possible to those who seek our help.
Do you have a story completed, but are not certain it's ready to be published? Send an email to:
[email protected]. Please be patient - we have a lot to do currently and will answer each and every email received in as timely a manner as possible.
Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I was raised in the US military. We moved all over America, so I didn't grow up in any one place. Finding myself in a new city every couple of years meant everything was new and I learned to see it all in a different way, describing it in my head even as I wrote to old friends and told them where I was now living.
When did you first start writing?
Not until high school. I wrote my first fiction story in an English class as a group assignment to write and perform a Science Fiction play. No one else in my group had written anything all week, so I sat down the night before the assignment was due and wrote the entire script in a few hours. We received an "A" for the play and the rest of the assignment went smoothly.
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