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Final tweaking and editing for Blood of the Delphi before it goes off to my lovely reviewers! 

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Hi,

Welcome to my Science Fiction story, "Gladiators of Internium: The Realm of Stolen Memories.”

I started running this story several years ago and have done my best to write it at an understandable level. There may be sections that need more work and attention to flush out details and story points, but this is why I am doing this Andy Weir review style.

Let me know if you see anything that needs to be corrected so I can revise it. This is a family drama, mystery, and science fiction novel with swordplay. But I have done my best to make it easy to read. This was the type of book I wanted to write in my teens as I was power-diving my way into the works of Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

These stories occur on an extraterrestrial superstructure inhabited by ex-Roman gladiators, Roman citizens, ancient Chinese, and an alien race known as the Squall. All of them were resurrected from the dead after many centuries. It has been a generation since a renegade explorer returned to this place with these primitive humans. A mystery has started to surface in that many of the humans resurrected via the Squall have had sections of their memories stolen. When the Ancient Gladiator General Spartacus, a friend of the Squall explorer Libra, turns up, this mystery hits home. As the search to discover what happened to Spartacus's memory unfolds, a larger conspiracy starts to reveal itself and may connect to the events that led to the peace that the Squall and the humans now share.

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Now onto the book.

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Now onto the book.

The first few chapters are here.

Prologue:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Well yesterday I started reading my old novel that I had written over the last couple of years. Mostly what I'm trying to create my book summary from all the material that I have had gathered. So far I got several hours more of the read through that I have to do.

Take a look at the image below.

As you can see in the lower left hand corner I got 7 hours and 44 minutes to go.

Along with this rethru that I'm doing of this book, I am currently using quillbot.com Co-author function to do another grammar check on this thing.

That is currently running on my home computer With the 200 plus corrections I've got to go through and make on it.

But that's this weekend's project.

Other than that I'm waiting to hear back from my Beta readers to find out what they think of the current set of chapters that I've given them.

All in all the next 9 months are gonna be fairly interesting with me trying to get this to print.

So take a look at my reedsy.com Profile and let me know in what regions what you are viewing this post at.

I am staring up my marketing campaign.

Well, plan to hear from you all soon.

Additionally I have been doing work on my Beta corrections and making up the packets to send out to potential publishers.

So this is me just giving an update on what I have been doing.

I plan to update soon.