Great news

[Damiynn]

I would just like to say thanks to everyone who has helped me with A King's Task, All of you are greatly appreciated, A King's Quest, my first book just made it into Wal Mart I think, as of today so maybe the great reviews I got and all the help from here accomplished that, Thanks everyone

[chopper]

congratulations!
and may it be the first of many!

[Precise Calibre]

Congratulations!

Though, honestly, I'm surprised Sierra didn't go after that one, seeing as they had a hit series back in the days of DOS and Windows 3.1 by the named of King's Quest, an adventure game series spanning 7 volumes.

[Heretic]

Congratulations, I'll see what it's like.

[Damiynn]

Yeah when it was titled I forgot about the game, but it is called Kings Quest, where I have A King's Quest, vol 1 The Kingdom Chronicles

[CharleneHaines]

Originally Posted by Damiynn

I would just like to say thanks to everyone who has helped me with A King's Task, All of you are greatly appreciated, A King's Quest, my first book just made it into Wal Mart I think, as of today so maybe the great reviews I got and all the help from here accomplished that, Thanks everyone!

That is great news!!! Congratulations!!!

[Culhwch]

Moved to Aspiring Writers. And please, Damiynn, do not start multiple identical threads in different forums. They will be binned.

[The Pelagic Argosy]

Awesome!

[Damiynn]

Sorry I didn't know I have been on the critique section for so long and had so much help from the others I just wanted to say thanks, did not mean to offend anyone and I apologize

[chrispenycate]

I would just like to say thanks to everyone who has helped me with A King's Task,

What about the nasty ones who didn't encourage, I wonder?

And congratulations.

[Damiynn]

Ha ha Chris, There have been a few and I definitely know that, but all they did was make the book better and they have my thanks as well. Even the ones who I upset on other websites who deliberately went to amazon and though they didnt read the book posted bad reviews, This news is too good to hold any grudges and Im not that good at them anyway. By the way I was going to personally thank you, so here thanks chris you helped a lot.

[Aniri]

That is the title? I cannot locate on Walmart?

[Teresa Edgerton]

Originally Posted by Damiynn

Even the ones who I upset on other websites who deliberately went to amazon and though they didnt read the book posted bad reviews.

I'm curious: how did you know they hadn't read the book?

I've had reviews that made me scratch my head and wonder if they had read the same book I wrote, and many of them seemed to love it. I can't imagine a stranger giving me a good review unless they really did read the book; it's easier to believe that those who gave a lukewarm review and got so many of the details wrong only read the first part and skimmed through the rest. I believe some people start a book, think they know where it's leading (and don't), and write the review based on that. That's careless and a bit of a cheat, but I wouldn't put down to malice what could be sheer laziness.

[Damiynn]

First, type Wedhorn, on Walmart.com

When I first got A King's Quest, I went to several message boards as an enthused new author, one of the message boards really took a disliking to the fact that I posted there, I was wrong in the way I went about it, and so they all went to Amazon and posted some horrible reviews, and never read it. All of them said they did it just because I went to their site, I was wrong in what I did and I know better now and havent made that mistake again. At that time, I had only sold twenty copies and none of them was to any of them. I have tried and tried to get amazon to fix this problem but... that has been like pulling teeth. I did recieve two good reviews from SFF World, and Midwest book review, but have been forever finding things posted by these seven people. They have made because of my enthusiam which was wrong, bad posts all over just because. It's a shame and I have apologized for it several times. Needless to say I have stopped trying that route and will always introduce myself anywhere before I ever post again.

[Teresa Edgerton]

Originally Posted by Damiynn

I have tried and tried to get amazon to fix this problem but... that has been like pulling teeth.

No, I don't see amazon cooperating with you on that. Probably they figure that it's just as easy for friends and family to join up and give rave reviews, so it all evens out in the end -- even if it doesn't in the case of any individual author.