#seventh talon

[what-the-shit-spidey]

Teia: What’s on your mind Rook?

Rook: just thinking that the word “assassin” is just

Viago: Rook…..never speak your thoughts again

[andarateia]

Nov '18: I read Deception and fall in love with an elven assassin. Mar '20: So excited to see her again in Tevinter Nights! Dec '20: She's mentioned in The Wake. Feb '23: She's a major character in The Missing! Aug '24: ANDARATEIA CANTORI IN DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD TRAILER. (I love Teia a very normal amount).

[jamesgpatton]

Seventh Talon Launches Today

Hello Everyone, I do apologize for not having a January post, but I was hoping that this announcement would come much sooner than today. That said, I am finally releasing Seventh Talon I: Dragonrider's Fury. To those of you who read Office Wars, this is a much darker series. This the first book in a trilogy, and I have another trilogy planned out as a follow up if people like this series. Several call outs. Steve Caldwell was doing something really awesome one day in the Facebook groups, he was asking if author's would donate a copy of their book to his friend, Kristi Haase, because she was recently diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis or MS. For those who don't know this is a very life changing disease, but more on that in a minute. I thought it would be awesome to write a novella with her as a main character, something small like a novella.  I wanted to do a overcoming strife type book. So Steve tells me, no joke, she loves guns, dragons, heavy metal, and animals. Uh wow. The novella turned into a novel, which turned into the first book of a trilogy.  I have plans for two more books and I have to say I love Boh.  She has been a fun character to figure out, and one of the more complex ones I've done.  Most of her backstory is not Kristi's, just FYI.  It is almost entirely fiction (at least I hope it is).  No spoilers, go and read it haha. I even wrote my own heavy metal songs, so I didn't get sued. Soul Sender, Disembarked, and Frostbite are all original by me. The bands Metallicore and Panteradox do not exist (at least I don't think they do). I think it was a really cool element to the story. I really hope you all enjoy the story as much as I enjoyed writing it. Now about MS, I highly encourage people to educate themselves on this disease. I highly recommend you visit National MS Society and read more. If you can, I would also encourage you to donate to the foundation. To everyone who suffers from MS, I admire your strength. Keep up the good fight because you never know what lurks around the corner. -  Sorry, that sounded kind of creepy, haha.  Just meant keep your head up, medical science is changing constantly. I should caution people, I went back and forth on how to handle my character who had suffered MS. Some of her thoughts are dark, and I thought about pulling back and being more politically correct, but I felt that was doing people with MS an injustice. Thank you.

Seventh Talon I: Dragonrider's Fury

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[jamesgpatton]

December [2017] Update - A little late!

Sorry for my tardiness.  This will be a fairly quick update. Seventh Talon I had several beta readers review this work and now I'm working on those fixes and updating some of the pacing.  All in all it was well received.  I just want to warn my readers, this is not a funny book like Office Wars.  There is some humor but its a darker book.  I really like how it turned out and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Office Wars:  Lab Coats Optional (Episode 3) is framed up.  I have the bare bones of the story, but it might end up differently than the first two.  I have a ton of content I want to use, but I might have to break the labs across two floors.  We'll see how it turns out when I start filling it all in.  Either that or this book is going to be much longer, which means I don't get this installment out as fast. Stay tuned, I'll let you know soon enough haha. Lantern Online This one I'm just stalling on.  The first draft is done, but I'm slacking on the edits.  This one has humor very much like Office Wars, but it is in a fantasy setting. That's my updates for the month. Feel free to follow my blog directly at:  James G Patton's Author Site http://ift.tt/eA8V8J via Blogger http://ift.tt/2kNLWOn

[jamesgpatton]

November Updates - It's a good one!

Hello my faithful people! I got some good news and updates.

Seventh Talon:

The first draft is done, and I'm half way through the edits. I expect to have beta readers in the next few weeks, and then maybe a launch date in December sometime. I've also finalized the cover ( I think, might do a few small tweaks ).

Office Wars

This is a tough one, and a decision that did not come lightly.  I scrapped the original parts I had and started over.  I just did not feel it fit what I was trying to do, but I am working on it now.  I did want to point out a big change that is going to occur, don't worry no spoilers. All the prologues, interlogues, and epilogues were creating a story, Pulp Fiction style.  I gave dates and put them all out of order, so a bigger story could be pieced together.  Each one added an element to a bigger something.  I'm going to wrap this all up in one prologue in the next book, actually might just be Chapter 1, since its all coming to a head now.  I had intended on prolonging this, and had a few more things I intended to share, but its just not very popular.  So they are going to go away after I wrap it all up. The good news is that once I do that, the rest of the series will be solely on the MC, no more logues.  There will still be out of game moments, as their part of the main story, but no more side stories.  I want to do this carefully, because I still have a few plot lines that are woven between them that I don't want to spoil. That said, I think I might be able to complete it all by February maybe, I would think March at the latest.

A Personal Note

You will no longer see LitRPG on my covers, or mentioned in text.  If you see 'An Odditek Online Series', you can assume it will be LitRPG or GameLit.  Due to all the drama around Trademarking LitRPG I am not going to take the chance, and worry about looking over my shoulder.  This is for my peace of mind.  I think what is happening is a detriment to the Genre, and it saddens me that it has come to this.  I feel an honorable person would have dropped the Trademark and let it go, but at this point I doubt that will happen. I fully support the GameLit movement, and I highly recommend you check out GameLit Society or GameLit  facebook groups. http://ift.tt/2zZxF3a via Blogger http://ift.tt/2hxp9Sa