Joe and the Black dragon Legend

Not Is time to talk to you a little bit about my first book. Joe Y la Leyenda del Dragón Negro. (Joe and the Black Dragon Legend)…. I started writing it when I was 15 years old and finished when I was 16. It took me about 2 years. I remember I had always liked writing but I never wrote that much of a novel, just short stories.
One day I decided to take a piece of paper and did a brain storm of ideas and I had several, actually. Enough to write many books. I decided to split the story in 8 parts.
Joe and the Black Dragon Legend
Joe and the Everlasting Night
The Dark love
The sleeping city
Joe and The Island of the Death
The Niwans mistery
Joe and The magic Mithology
And….the last one “untitled”
I began writing the book. I wrote as If I were a witness of the story and were telling somebody else what happened. I outlined the novel, but I wrote as I was writing…I knew what It was going to happened but not how it was actually going to happened. I had a lot of fun writing the novel. I can still remember the songs that would inspire me and How I couldn’t wait to finish it and start writing the second part.

When I got to the last chapters of the novel. I had a kind of writer’s block. And guess what? The ending of the book (If you read if. From the part they get to the Dark Castle to the ending) It all occurred to me in a dream. Same time happened with the book I’m actually writing “The sleeping city” . The whole concept occurred to me in that world where everything can happen.
I finished the book. I was just 16 and I had never been good at grammar nor spelling. So You can imagine my novel. I was full of mistakes. I “Tried” to correct it and then sent it to CBH books (www.cbhbooks.com) A co-editorial enterprise. The answer I got said something like this:

There’s no doubt you have talent, but You still need to work in your novel. You have to rewrite this, change that, delete there.
I remember I got really depressed. It was as if I had waken up from the magical world. I wanted to delete my novel from the computer and pretend I had never had written it. Thank God my friends kept me from doing it. I got over it and continued writing my second novel. “Joe and The everlasting Night” It was then when I decided to shorten the story to 6 books.
Joe and the Black Dragon Legend. Joe and The Everlasting Night. The Dark love. The Sleeping city. Joe and the Magic Mythology. And the last one, still untitled. ( I’m still thinking in many different possible names)
I wasn’t until I started writing my third novel (The Dark Love) When I started correcting the 1st one. I sent it again the same co-editorial and guess what? I got accepted this time! I was so happy!!! The rest is history… Here I leave you with the synopsis from editorial.

In Joe y la leyenda del dragón negro, the author describes a magical world—a place similar to planet Earth—, which is in grave danger. An evil wizard named Kukulcan, who had been defeated by the white magic of Joerend, has sworn to return to rule and destroy this beautiful world. The appearance of the legendary Black Dragon would mark the beginning of this terrible deed. Despite the fear instilled by this promise in the inhabitants of the magical world, they are hopeful because of a prediction made by Joerend: A magician more powerful than Kukulcan would be born to eliminate evil once and for all. The wizards awaiting the arrival of Kukulcan are ready to destroy this infant, whose birth would be announced by the Phoenix. When the child is young, his parents take him to Earth where he would be safe. Who would have thought that Joe, the boy from London who was always fascinated by magic, was the boy predicted to save the magical world? A mysterious door and a mirror that does not reflect come together to help Joe discover his powers. (AVAILABLE IN SPANISH ONLY) José Cardona González, a talented young writer, was born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico on September 29, 1986. He is the oldest of three brothers. His interest in literature began when he decided to create a world where everything people imagined would be real and not just pure fiction. At the age of 16, he finished writing Joe y la leyenda del Dragón Negro (CBHBooks, 2006), the first part of this magical story. He immediately began writing the second part of the story titled, La maldición: Joe y la noche eterna. He has already finished the third book in the series: El amor oscuro. He is currently writing the fourth book, titled, La ciudad dormida. Cardona González is a student of Business Administration at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. Upon graduating, he would like to study film, and specialize in direction and screenwriting in order to bring this story to the big screen one day.

I combined a lot of elements from Fantasy, mythology from all around the world, including Mexican.

Here’s the cover.