Will you kindly read my manuscript on Authonomy's website and come back here to tell me what you feel about it. the site is created by HarpperCollins Publisher, it is place where writers put their manuscript and voting are given books to get to the Editor's desk may be it will get published or not. You can also join this site as writer or a reader.
Please follow the link below to read any chapter you can read, and tell me what you feel about it. You can rate the book the stars you like. thanks
http://authonomy.com/books/42977/animals-in-paradise/
Matlida, Thanks for looking at it. I understood what Hopskin said. But that does not really matter; t is what an Editor can easily fixed. I can't write it in my dialect, Nigeria is a counry of many languages.
I agree with Jonathan Hopkins about the english translations but i also thought that the descriptions were brilliant and i could really picture. Good luck with it
I used to post on Authonomy a few years ago but found it gradually degenerated into a back-scratching exercise. So I gave up.
Anyway, I read your first chapter. It's not really my sort of book, so I'll leave others to comment on your ideas. The main issue, as I see others on Autho commented, is the English. It must be really difficult to write in a second language - I used a few French and Portuguese phrases in my first book and was criticised for some translations, so I sympathise. But I think unless you can find a translator, or at least a sympathetic editor up to speed with modern English usage, you will struggle to generate interest from publishers. It's not fair, I know, but then life generally isn't.
But I could be wrong (and often am). In any case, the best of luck with your story :)