Okay, question time.

[jolantru]

How many of you would like to read Phoenix With A Purpose, raw as it is?

Blurb:
Phoenix With A Purpose details the development of Princess Min Feng, heir apparent to the Phoenix Court, set in a future where the Phoenix Court, a matriarchal Imperial Family, rules over an Alliance of Planets. Min Feng is impulsive, her inner phoenix flame (an ability to turn her from human to phoenix) out of control because of puberty. She yearns for freedom and meets a Navajo boy from Mesa, a colony home-world for the Navajo/Dine people. When her mother, the Empress, decides to send her on an apprentice-ship on a starship captained by her grandaunt, Min Feng rebels and runs away from home, triggering a pattern of consequences for her, the boy and the family. Will she find her purpose in life? Or is she a phoenix without a purpose, susceptible to the whims of an uncontrollable phoenix fire and puberty?

EDIT:
I uploaded it on Scribd.

Comments

[delfinnium]

The blurb seems interesting, though the Phoenix thing sounds a bit over the top. But then, why not? Were-phoenixes! :D

[jolantru]

Hehe, were-phoenixes are cool. ;)

You are right though that the Phoenix thing sounds a bit over the top... but hehe, it's speculative fiction. *grins*

[delfinnium]

heh. THough, Would they call themselves the Phoenix court? Or would they call it something else? Feng Court! :D

or. maybe. something. >.>

(like were-foxes are not over the top. Or were-dragons and were-wolves and the occasional were-squirrel.)

[jolantru]

Feng Court sounds cute. Like a Chinese restaurant. ;)

Hehe, I don't mind were-dragons, were-wolves and were-foxes (and even were-rodents... err...squirrels). Urban fantasy, ala Anita Blake. ;P

[delfinnium]

Hee, random chinese dimsum restaurant! :P

O_o wow. I didn't know htat... it's not urban fantasy - it's ... Set in Ancient China Place.

>.>

<.<

You know 狐狸精? Yeeeeah. TOTAL explanation for them.

[jolantru]

It can be an urban fantasy set in Ancient China Place.

Hu li jin. And kitsune. Mmmm. :)

[delfinnium]

Hee. >.> 11 chapters and the damn story won't end. Damn hu li jing.

>.<

Damn unconventional weird romance. Or maybe it IS a conventional romance.

People who've never had a relationship shouldn't write romance. *headdesk*

[jolantru]

Hehe, stories will have always have stories. ;) When your characters demand to speak more. *grin*

[delfinnium]

The thing is, she has a daughter and SHE has her own story. But I want a story to be FINISHED FIRST DAMMIT.

*sulks*

[jolantru]

*lol* It always happens. :)

[delfinnium]

stupid characters.

[jolantru]

*LOL* They have lives and minds of their own. :P

[delfinnium]

They should cooperate! Then I can get PUBLISHED.

Or at least tell my mum I'm not wasting time scribbling.

>< At least you'd finished a novel. I've only got.. hm. two, three pieces that could count as short stories. Sort of.

[jolantru]

I think my novel is more like a long short story... *lol* And already I am expanding it mentally. Life on Mesa. Woot. :)

Keep on writing. *grin* ;)

And no, sometimes, the characters really deviate from the path I have set for them. Min Feng certainly took matters in her own hands and I was going "Wut? Okay. That is going to be intriguing."

[delfinnium]

mmm Mine seems to follow the course MORE or less.

Only not. She's stalling. Brat.

[jolantru]

Hehe. They tend to do that... all the time. :P I was going "Teenagers..." and well, Min Feng is a teenager. Reminds me of my junior college students.

[delfinnium]

Hahahah

Oh you're a teacher? :PPP Were a teacher?

I dunno, lots of my characters act like teenagers. But now I think I'm starting to write a bit more mature characters. a bit.

[jolantru]

Ex-teacher. I resigned from the teaching service.

I think for my teenager/Young Adult characters, they have different voices than adult characters.

[delfinnium]

yeah. I don't know about my adults yet - I tend to write young-adults.

[jolantru]

Btw, what bugs me is that Singapore keeps placing Young Adults (YA) under Children. Sounds about right. Insisting we see teenagers as children... and they are really growing up!

[delfinnium]

huh. Really? YA books at least in the BB library has its own section away from the Bestsellers and the children's section.

Though I do most of my reading from YA now - in some libraries the YA sections are huge, in others, pitifully tiny.

[jolantru]

Yep. In some bookstores, YA books are under the YA heading. Yet in others, they are under Children. Then, if you read the Lifestyle section for the Sunday papers, YA titles are piled under Children. Which is revealing. Singaporeans don't know how to treat young adults as they should be treated.

[delfinnium]

Ngn.

>.> THen again, I don't know if USAsians know how to treat YA either. :|

[jolantru]

*lol* Some of the YA books I have seen - well, their covers, anyway - look like adult books. And their themes: very - um - adult too.

[delfinnium]

Heh, I might be reading the fantasy types more, so that kinda cuts off a lot of the 'adult' themes too.