The Wayward Prince

I have uploaded my book to read for free. If you can be bothered, feel free to read it and review it. You can review after a few chapters if you like. The more reviews I get on the siite the better the chance of getting more readers.

It is a free reading site for most books, and it is free to join.

Thanks for your time.

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I don’t understand why Prince James is making a documentary about his identity transformation and hiding out in secret. What is the point of hiding out then?

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At that stage Prince James wants to show the world what life for a prince can really be like in contrast to what it was before. He wants to demonstrate his journey because for now he hasn’t given up royalty forever. He wants to relay what life is like for him and possibly show the world what a royal family member really does, if he ever does want to go back, or is discovered.

Also, if he doesn’t transform then he will never escape the life he had before. He would need protection if recognised. He has to transform but he holds on to the fact someone may recognise him and he may have to return to his roots anyway.

Good point and thank you though, if it is not clear I can always edit it in.

thanks for the insight. it wasn’t sufficiently clear. So I’ve added this paragraph in chapter 3

ā€œJames needed a fallback position in case he was discovered and had to return to his life of royal duty. He wanted anonymity, but thought that the chances of being discovered were high, even with the plastic surgery; and thought that if he had a film crew documenting his life that he could show the world what he had been doing in his years of ā€˜reclusiveness’. The prince also thought that if he ever did want to return to his previous life he could with the film crew’s insights, and thus he could document why, how and what happened in the intervening years.ā€

Please read on and tell me of any other inconsistencies.

How does it read so far? Do you like the style?

To be fair it is made clear in the closing chapters of the book already why he had the film crew, but it did need establishing early for wonderers. :slight_smile:

Hey I just read the first 3 chapters, awesome man !! I think your vocabulary is quite developed and yet your using fancy words doesn’t force the reader to stop and think to themselves ā€œwhat the heck is he trying to say here?ā€. So IMHO you have great potential as a writer.

How many chapters in all ?
Why didn’t you self publish on Amazon ?
You could set a deceivingly low price, say $.99 and offer the first 2 or 3 chapters for free, as an incentive. Then, as more people download your book and it gains momentum, you could up the price to $2.49. Just a random thought :slight_smile:

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@Andrey Thanks for the kind words.

There are 33 chapters but some are really short. It is 50,000 woords in all.

I tried amazon, but got no sales, so this website lets you read for free at first. If you get feedback then they might be interested in publishing it themselves.

Please write a quick review on that website, even about the first 3 chapters. It would help others get insight into how you found it. I think to leave feedback review you have to register for free. It wouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes, honest.

I am most of the way there on my second novel. It’s called ā€˜AV- the vocie of the animal flower’ and it is about a psychedelic plant that lets you feel the emotions and words of animals.

Thanks again. I’m glad you liked my writing style.

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@Andrey there is a button in the corner of the screen ā€œWrite a reviewā€. It gives you a star rating and a chance to wirte a review. I’d really appreciate it if you could do that for me. :smile:

Done. Hope I could be of some help :blush:

Good luck !

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I’ve just read it, and you have a way with words yourself. Thanks a lot. You have generated an interest in others reading it too.

Brilliant… :sunny:

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Hey @labratmat

I am currently reading chapter 7.
You may want to revisit the following paragraph?

Jack’s voice varied in tempo; recovering his public speaking skills having been toned from his Eton public speaking debate days, that spoke volumes.

Well, for me at least the message is not entirely clear. Besides, you are overusing the verb ā€œto speakā€ (3 occurrences within the same phrase)… :blush:

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And now, for a broader doubt I have about your writing style: you seem to spell ā€œintoā€ as ā€œin toā€, is that really ok?

Cheers :sunny:

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Yeah i had problems with that in to into. Grammar wise that was one of my weaknesses. I think I’ll go over it with grammarly too see if it can solve it for me.

Thanks for the editing points, no one else has helped with it.

:slight_smile:

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I changed it to ā€œJack’s voice varied in tempo; remembering his public speaking skills having been toned from the Eton public school debate teams, that resonated volumes.ā€

Thanks.

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Wow, grammarly is finding mistakes all over the place. It is certainy correcting the ā€˜into’ problem though. It is going to take some time to go through the whole book though, and then i have to reupload it to the webpage which takes ages, becuase I have to separate the chapters too.

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Be careful though, there are some cases where ā€œin toā€ is definitely the preferrable spelling.
Such as:

ā€œGive in to temptationā€ and not ā€œGive into temptationā€ !!

Good luck :wink:

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Took me 5 hours to correct and upload correctly. Should have done it before really, but when I orginally wrote this grammarly didn’t exist. There were loads of errors, I am embarrassed that I uploaded it in the first place.

Oh well, it is all done now. :blush:

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Another question mark:

Chapter 7:

[…] scared for a moment that his rouse would be discovered.

Did you mean ā€œruseā€ ??

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I sure did. :smile: (corrected now!)

Thanks again.

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