Moving On

   After my mother’s death, I’ve come to find that Life is short for those who waste time. In light, I will be concentrating on books I have yet to finish and publish. 

  So, I won’t be posting very many blog entries in the future. I must throw more energy into finishing up my books and to publish them, even though they may or may not ever be read. It is something I promised myself, it is my life’s goal. When I am 60, I hope I have completed the fiction books as well as the non-fiction books.

  As for my memoir, I may or may not finish it before anymore of my older relatives die so, hopefully that won’t be the case and it will be finished and my aunts & uncles will be able to read it. 

NOTE: I am going to privately distribute my book to family members. My memoir will not be for sale.

Final thoughts:

I feel that we all should do what are calling is in Life, no matter what. So, be safe everyone and thank you for visiting my blog. Please post comments. If you have a comment/review to post about my books, please do so on Amazon or Kindle. It’s important for an Indie author to have comments/reviews on any of their books. Thank you.

 Books available:

Chandra's Quest Bk 1

Website

Cecile Garcia (author)

In the Company of Elves

Saints and Sinners: Affairs of the Heart

NEW Video: In the Company of Elves

I recently made a video, and posted it up on Facebook and YouTube, regarding one of my books, In the Company of Elves.  The video contains the first chapter from the book. I used a computer generated voice narrator. Some words are said differently through the narrator. 
Below is a link. All comments are accepted. Enjoy.

In the Company of Elves

NOTE: This book is not yet available on Amazon or Kindle. 

Dedications & updates

People have asked me when will Chandra’s Quest be complete. Well, my mom is one of my biggest fans and she requested that I add more pages to book one. I have. I also changed the book cover. Image done by poser 10. I re-uploaded it on Kindle and plan on re uploading it to CreateSpace for those who prefer paperback. Book 2: Immortality will end the Chandra’s Quest book series. I gave myself a time limit. I have until I am 58 to complete all the books I want to write. That’s something my readers should know.

I do want to say that the kindle version is formatted differently than the paperback version. I suppose that’s the way it is.

In the Company of Elves is coming along fine.  This isn't the actual book cover. I'm not sure what book cover I'll use yet. 

There’s another book I plan on writing, one that I discarded  years ago but decided to finish writing it anyways. You’ll find all the book pages on my official website. The picture below is a hint. 

Dedications:

Since my mom loved Chandra’s Quest so much, I dedicated the book series to her and my family. So, at the end of the book, I posted dedications.

Thanks for visiting and be blessed. 

Chandra's Quest

Using Alternate Realities in Your Books

    It’s been a while since I’ve written in my blog but I’m back and I would like to share what I’ve been doing to my books.

I am using the alternate reality theory for two of my books. Chandra’s Quest takes place in an alternate Earth and so does In the Company of Elves. I love adding alternate reality scenarios in my books because anything is possible.

On the Earth that Chandra is from, California is a country called The Republic of California, which includes Baja. California has provinces instead of states. 
(The provinces will be mentioned in Book 3, when she regains her memory and shares the information with her friend Keeja.)

View maps

Flag

The difference in that reality is that the flag is red and white with a red star at the top left hand corner, same as the flag on the bottom, except instead of a bear, it has the eagle as pictured above. 

(For those who are offended by this, remember this is fiction and is part of the Chandra's Quest trilogy. There is always a background to each character, where they come from and who they are.)

 In book three of Chandra's Quest, Chandra's memories return and she will reveal in more detail about her world. 

Alternate Reality Fiction

Of course, this is all just fiction and I'm sure many out there will oppose to California being it's own country, mostly the people who see nothing but politics, right? 
So with that said, I will ignore all trolling about this subject in the future.

Now let’s look at the book, In the Company of Elves. On Melissa’s Earth, there is a Jewish President, there are 52 states, Includes Baja as state and small portion of northern Mexico, bordering southern Texas. 9/11 never happened. Portals are being created by CERN which is why Melissa is able to cross worlds.

What I outlined are the portion of lands that belong to America.

All of the above will be briefly mentioned in my books, with the exception that I did not mention it, In the Company of Elves. Sorry about that but at least I gave you an idea about the worlds the characters come from.

 It’s quite fun to imagine a “what if” scenario isn’t it. Using alternate reality scenarios in your books is fun. Take the reader to a world that may seem impossible to believe. Walk them through the mirror. They will be intrigued by the concept.

 Update: In the Company of Elves has been published! Please visit the official website below for updates.

Author's Website

Author's Amazon page

In the Company of Elves webpage

2015 in Retrospect

Wow, can’t believe it’s already December and the year is almost over!

What I accomplished:
I have a 5-star rating on my book Chandra’s Quest book 1, the revised version. Not to be confused with the original unabridged version of Chandra’s Quest book 1, the one I published 13 years ago. 

Should I toot my horn?

Yes! I’m proud that my book has a 5 star. But, I still have to finish the book series. It took me 8 years to revise the first book. Hopefully it won’t take me another eight years to complete the series.

NOTE: I am almost done with the editing of book 2. I like to go over my books several times before I publish them. I don’t want to make the same mistakes from the past because there will be no more revising of ‘that’ book series. I will move on to new book projects, later.

That is true. I can only look forward to finishing up the book series, and moving on. 

**I am truly happy that my book has a 5 star however, this year has been...unlucky when it comes to things like cars and appliances.
Cars needed to be fixed and some appliances have broken down, leaving us with less money in our pockets for Christmas! But giving is more important and despite of everything that has gone wrong financially speaking in 2015, I'm grateful for the little things that do come my way! 

I would like to thank the people who have visited my blog and have taken an interest in my books.

Have a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

NOTE: the revised version of Chandra's Quest is  different than the original copy. Order the book or download it on Amazon or Kindle store.

Visit the official YouTube channel.

Chandra's Quest YouTube Channel

NEW!! Chandra's Quest Book trailer

Chandra's Quest eBook

Hello Everyone

Yes, I know I haven’t been writing anything on this blog lately, I have been busy with other matters but I am still working on Book 2, which by December it will be completed. Chandra’s Quest has been, by far the most tedious book series to complete. it's taken me almost 12 years! LOL
I’ve made changes and when I edit, I make sure I edit several times before publishing. I promise that in a week or two I will have another excerpt to post. But in the meantime, I will post quotes, & pictures on my Facebook page. If you don’t already know about Chandra’s Quest Facebook page, link is below.

Facebook

Here’s a link to my website where you can find links to where my book is sold.

Website

Chandra’s Quest Youtube Channel. I did a trailer for my book:

Channel

Enjoy your week

New Video!!

I finally finished my book trailer and it is now available on YouTube! It took me a while to complete because of the editing I had to do to it and I was ill for a few weeks as well but I did it!!

Music:

 Cold Rise (a YouTube generic music available for users)

Cross the Border (an old 80’s favorite)

Until she Comes (it is at the very end and very short)

Pictures used are from various wallpapers. I should have made the trailer two years ago but, didn’t think about it until I saw some other book trailers done by various Indie/Self-published authors. 

Some were professionally done, with expensive software and some were done the same way as mine, with average computer software, easy to handle. Please visit link to view trailer and comment  if you wish. To those who haven't read the book, download it for your Kindle app or buy it from Amazon or other online book stores. 

Later, I will share excerpts from Book 2 in future blog entries.

Chandra's Quest Book trailer