Back in August 2018, I wrote here about helping my friend Val publish her first novel on Kindle. Eight years later, I reread it and saw what every first edition hides: typos, slips in agreement, a few contradictions in the timeline. So we went back to it.
The new edition is now live. Over the past weeks, the whole manuscript went through a chapter-by-chapter copyedit. We fixed grammar and spelling, made the dialogue and punctuation consistent, and settled every continuity question: how many years have passed, which characters carry which names, who works where. The story is the same. The Haitian Creole stays exactly as it was written, because that is how these people speak.
For those who haven’t read it, here is the opening of the new description:
Ils l’ont abandonnée. Aujourd’hui, ils veulent sa fille.
Port-au-Prince. Nathalie et Ronald s’aiment depuis le collège… Le jour des résultats du bac, Nathalie apprend qu’elle est enceinte. Ronald la rejette, l’humilie, puis épouse Vydlie, sa meilleure amie.
It is a story of a mother’s love, betrayal and superstition, set in today’s Haiti, where French and Creole answer each other on every page.
Irrévocablement liés (French edition) is available on Kindle for $3.99, and free with Kindle Unlimited.
If you read it, or read it back in 2018, an honest review on Amazon would mean a great deal. For a small independent book, reviews are what get it found.
Original 2018 announcement: New Book Published!
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