Read a manga with the MC being an incestuous necrophiliac. His sister was a ghoul which he revived, pretty similar to Twilight, but Japanese version. They both sucked as all hell( even though I read the last book of Twilight a few times, I regret it). To see how much they suck you have to see it for yourself, words cannot warn you about the incoming horror( while he did not have sex with his sister, it was pretty close). And there goes a few hours of my life, better spent lazing around rather than reading books like those, your book is so much better IMO. ETA for beta demonism? I haven`t really been active on the forums in the last week or two, so I can`t really say I saw any announcement(s) regarding it

In regards to the tridents, it wouldn't surprise me that it has something to do with capturing and transporting souls. Isn't it a fisherman's weapon? I certainly remember seeing sketches of devils throwing bound souls on wagons and the like with the pitchforks.

Mind you, for all I know, the first one to depict demons with tridents was thinking of Poseidon...

Tridents are used for cathcing fish.

From what I can remember, Satan is depicted to use it, or maybe it was pitchforks. But I don't see any depiction of demons using tridents, or pitchforks. It doesn't seem related to them.

Tizzy. It is common for names to have meaning especially in literature.Example:

Lucifer (Bible) = Lightbearer
Draco (Harry Potter Series) = Serpent
Ebenezer (A Christmas Carol) = Stone of Help

My most favorite was in the children story Charlie and the Chocolate factory whose names are rather descriptive:

Veruca - Wart, a rather unpleasant meaning, don't name your girls Veruca.
Teevee - TV
Gloop - you know what it means, paired with Agustus (= great), you have "great" gloop
Beauregarde - Regarded Highly; also Violet: "Violet! You're turning violet!"

Names in fiction can be very revealing. Well, some research:

Tizzy - an excited state of agitation; a nervous, excited, or distracted state... defines you very well
Thomas means Twin
Edward means Wealthy Guardian

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Well, authors tend choose the name of their characters carefully. Some even are so deliberate it is obvious:

Superman
Snow White
Cruela De Vil

This is especially prevalent in Roman and Greek literatures. All their names pertain to something about the characters.

Also, in early times, people choose names carefuly. They tend to choose names for auspicious connotations. The meaning of names can be very optimistic:

Jack: God is Gracious
Sophia: Wise
William: Protection
Elizabeth: Oath of God

After all, no parents would like to name their children with something awful like Veruca, or Putrid, or Compost. Though in literature authors name villians and awful people awful names.

OK

Back...you know the one thing I'd forgotten about this place I am now, and it's been 4,000+ years since I'd been here, is that all the dang steam plays a real number on my hair! It makes me look like some sort of deranged nut job! However, the soot seems to do wonders for my complexion!

Hmm, those names for Thomas and Edward seem particularly appropriate...but you can't know completely why yet. Although the Thomas one should be pretty obvious if you've met Rupert.

Names are very important, particularly true names as they reveal your true nature!

As does your birthdate from both an Astrological and Numerological point of view!

Ah...of course.

Got so wrapped up in beta discussions here I forget that it looks dead to those who don't have betademon vision.

So I posted update to Goodreads/Amazon but not here. DOH!

Beta 2 comments/suggests are slowing down to a crawl at the moment. So unless I hear of more big change requests/suggestions I am going to send it to the editor at the end of the week. SPEAK UP NOW AND SOON BETA DEMONS!!!

She needs 4+ weeks; not sure exactly how many as it varies on how busy she is.

Give me a 1 to 1.5 weeks after I get it back to accept or reject edits. Clean it up and get it formatted for kindle and deadtree and get it through the approval process (rather slow for Dead Tree---they have to ship me a galley copy that I approve) and it live.

So it's going to be early September at this point.

T-A-G

The 2nd edition of the first book...some of these posts in this thread are a bit old...

No "current" plans for a second edition of the 2nd book. Particularly because I have the technical editor working on the first edition this time rather than after publication.

So...first edition, second volume is now at the editor. She is booking 8 weeks, last time she came in early, we shall see. Fortunately, she works mostly sequentially so if beta demons have updates towards the end, we should be safe. Probably should have had this discussion sooner and got her working sooner....Nargh.

Hi,

There are people posting in the Beta demon forums but even that has slowed down as of beta 4.

The book is at the technical editor; and I'm about to send the latest/extended ending to her this week (Monday). She hopes to be finished in the second half of September and then I need another 1.5 to 2 weeks to get it out there.

A lot of the beta 3/beta 4 editions were centered around the break point of books 2 and 3.

We've now shoved some of what was coming in book 3 into book 2 making it a bit longer than book 1. (There are also some other things throughout book 2 that are now going to book 3)

So in short, the book is basically complete, just waiting on editing and working on final polishes etc.

I expect to have it out by the end of September.

In the meantime, I am starting work on book 3.

On the tech issues; yes, there is some serious tech weaponry used in book 2.

T-A-G

Super!