Another 5 Star rating review for Inner City

My novel INNER CITY, now has 30 five star reviews on Goodreads alone!. The latest was posted by another lovely reader on 28th December 2013.

Recently Penguin Young Adult division took a look at my book. When I say took a look, they responded to my submission with a request for the file of the novel in a different format because the copy of the file I sent them couldn't be opened.

That was the 3rd of December so I'm guessing silence is yet another pass. It's still a head scratcher to me that so many readers, now approaching 4000, have read it and it rates 4 out 5 on Goodreads, Nooks Books and Amazon, it was a finalist in a global E-book award and yet can't attract any interest. That's how hard it is to be a published writer these days. You only have to look at the huge number of quality E-books on sites like smashwords to realise I'm not alone.

It's also now available on iTunes!

My one reservation about why I can't get anyone to consider publishing is the level of sex in the book. People tell me that is an absolute no-no for a young adult novel. And we're talking one near blow-job and three tastefully rendered all the way sex scenes. Too much? It's all genuinely tasteful by the way, no graphic descriptions. In fact it's all very romance novel level sex and miles below any fifty shades of anything.

It always seems ridiculous to me that adults feel 'Young Adults' can handle gruesome violence, but have a couple thrusting away and they think today's teens will be scarred for life. Huh! Have they not searched for anything on Google lately. Try a search for "Water Sports" mum and dad and see what you end up with!

Anyway - to the reader who left the most recent review:

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  Posted December 28, 2013

   Great great read

  This was my first ebook on my new nook it took me two days to read it thats how good it is. Enjoy ....

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Inner City - by Scott Norton

Inner City - by Scott Norton

Scott Norton Taylor - Inner City - Ebook for Kindle, Epub Sony, Palm or online!

Reviews: From Amazon

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome read May 27, 2013

By Anna Brouillard

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

This book was so intriguing I hardly put it down. Wonderfully written it does not linger on any 

one event nor does it speed through scenes making it a poor read. The characters were well 

thought out and the inner turmoils they all face are far from dull.

5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular April 5, 2013

By Jack

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

The book was simply amazing it had action romance and just enough drama to make me happy 

one of the best books I have ever read

From Barnes and Noble - Nook Books:

Posted December 1, 2012

 Great read.

A story filled with with love, hate, violence, peace and so much more. 538 pages of wondering what will happen 

next. A FULL story from start to finish. Thanks to the author for sharing a great work with the readers.

Posted July 8, 2012

 Couldn't put it down...

For this to have been a free book, it was wonderful. The author keeps you on the edge of your seat. I couldn't 

put this down. I think this would make a great movie!

Posted April 20, 2012

 Amazing

Perfectly written with great detail it was thought provoking and asked the fundemental question of would you 

stick up for what you believed was right even if you would be killed for doing so.

Posted April 5, 2012

 This book is AWESOME! it keeps you wanting to read the entire ti

This book is AWESOME! it keeps you wanting to read the entire time. It tells of 2 worlds, and both are 

extremely unique. One of the best books I've ever read!

READ IT YOURSELF - INNER CITY

Great E Book Review and One Direction Cartoon Review

Free Ebook - Inner City

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome read, May 27, 2013

By 

Anna Brouillard - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)

This review is from: Inner City (Kindle Edition)

This book was so intriguing I hardly put it down. Wonderfully written it does not linger on any one event nor does it speed through scenes making it a poor read. The characters were well thought out and the inner turmoils they all face are far from dull.

Go to Amazon reviews.

Thank you Anna - hopefully more people will come to read my book thanks to yours and the other good reviews it's been getting. Maybe one day I can actually make a living from writing. Ahhh, to dream.

And while on the subject of finding amazingly good free entertainment - I found this...

There's a whole series of four (correction - only two - and two short sections posted separately - Liam's Spoon dream the highlight!) and this is such a high quality and made with that wonderful fan love that people sometimes get right. If you love 1D then you'll laugh at so many inside jokes.... if you're not a fan you'll still laugh at the tongue in cheek teasing at the phenom that is One Direction - and you'll also laugh because it is just plain funny on its own.

Supposedly this series is animated, written, voiced and produced by Mark Parsons.
Twitter: @markalanparsons
Tumblr: markalanparsons.tumblr.com

Now, this guy is either a complete, one man production, genius - or he's the front man to a slick production house who have put together a very entertaining show and used a created author for more 'fan' cred. 

There are just so many funny lines, moments, asides, running gags, bad puns, in jokes, cheeky social comments and perfectly structured comic storytelling - including very brave timing, where falling screams and squeaky doors are held, stretched and then given one last run, long after any normal amateur would have let the gag go and lost that final laugh.

Maybe I just like silly humor, but I truly laughed so many times.

My favorite moment - a genuine spit take moment - Niall:"You're a c*$t. I'm Irish."

So my hat is off to you Mark Parsons - you are truly gifted and I really hope you are just a guy in his room having some fun. If so someone should/must snap you up for so many reasons and do it very quickly. God speed talented man!

But the Mark Parsons who speaks at the beginning of each episode does look familiar to me - an actor perhaps? His voice acting is certainly spectacularly good. Accents, singing and pretty good impersonations of all the members of 1D - even the floating head who calls on the power of 1D to save the world from evil, named Psymon (Cowell) - see, I told you, at every opportunity there is another gag that is genuinely funny!

Either way - who cares - and thanks for making me laugh, over and over and over again! Hope others find this too!

Inner City - New Reviews

Posted February 4, 2013

 EXCELLENT free book

This was a great read from start to finish Most free books suck but i actually
found a greaat book here. Check for yourself

  

    Posted June 3, 2013

    Recommend

     Starts a little slow but turns into a great story that you just can't put down. Great
    characters. A great read.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/inner-city-scott-norton-taylor/1115446156?ean=2940011264481

A couple of new reviews have been posted on Nook Books, link above, and thank 

you.I am getting very close to being finished with this book, having just done another 

draft that tightens it up and makes it more of the thriller it's supposed to be. I am also 

sending it off to an editor after a number of reviews have made comments about 

poor proof reading. Try as I might I can't seen to catch them all - so I am going to a 

pro to red pen the things I am missing.

My last task will be to find a name I am happy with. Inner City has been a great 

working title as I redraft, but it doesn't tell you much about the story or the themes.
Originally it was called "The Lifeboat Precedent" - but that was too much like a 

lecture, so I am leaning to something simple.

                                                                                     Inner City - by Scott Norton