My daughter, who’s 15, and I both read it in just a couple of days. We’re both avid readers and loved Rumer & Qix! The premise is intriguing and the plot fast-paced. We fell in love with the characters. MoNa, aka Mother Nature, is fantastic! My daughter loved Rumer and the animets, like Qix. The author’s depiction of the future is truly imaginative and the green message deeply heartfelt. I can’t say enough about this book. After reading it my daughter was so excited she went to the book’s website and sent an email to the author.

We did not find the book confusing at all. The cover text is a bit dense, but it’s clear after reading Rumer & Qix from cover to cover that it has been thoroughly edited and revised. In her acknowledgments the author thanks an editor, who, after a bit of googling, I discovered works at a literary agency.

This is the author’s first book and I have to commend her efforts. It’s next to impossible for a new author to get a book published through traditional channels these days (unless her name is Madonna), especially since the global economic crash last year and the subsequent downsizing of publishing companies worldwide. Booksurge is a new kind of of publishing option for fledgling authors. It takes time and money for authors to get their books out there through these emerging digital publishers. My daughter and I are two readers who are glad this promising author went the distance. We are eagerly awaiting her next book.

When considering books to buy, it helps to look at the publisher. There are many vanity presses who will accept nearly any manuscript, regardless of quality. Books from publishers like AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Xlibris, PublishAmerica, BookSurge, Tate Publishing and others have not gone through the rigorous process of being professionally accepted and edited.

Authors who want to skip the hard work of rewriting, revising and polishing their work…then submitting it to editors and agents for acceptance…can just submit their work to these vanity presses and see it in book form within weeks.

Such shortcuts are not available for lawyers, doctors, professional athletes or even your mailman. Anyone can publish a book these days. Even books that shouldn’t be published.

Vanity presses make their titles available through online booksellers, but you’ll rarely see them in stores. The book-buying public has no way of knowing if a book is self-published or not.

This isn’t to say there aren’t some self-published titles that are good and deserve to be read, but the simple truth is this: without editorial and professional publishing gatekeepers, weak books are produced. Looks like you found one of them.

It’s not you, it’s the book.