This is a long book, over 85K words. I cannot promise to make the next one shorter or longer. It will be as long as it needs to be to invite you into the worlds of the Unfettered Mage.
I have a lot planned for Ruth, Pawlik, Cal, and the others. Let me know who your favorite characters and I’ll try to drop snippets on my blog and Facebook page over the next few months. That way you can see a bit of their journey before the next book comes out.
Thank you all for your contributions and your interest. It makes it all worthwhile.
Cheerfully,
Taki
Author Introduction – Taki Drake
The mixture of technology and magic is where my mind and heart live. In today's world, it mixes engineering and creativity. In the worlds of my mind, technology and magic live intertwined. I hope that you will find my stories interesting enough to be frequent visitors to where my heart beats.
I am continuing to write my stories of intertwined technology and magic. The challenges of that are fertile grounds for many story lines and series. Several of those planned for the next few months have been listed below. I am happily writing each of them, discovering new worlds, new situations and new challenges. The wonder for me is the number of readers that are enjoying my visions and tales.
Enjoy the stories in the emerging genre of techmage!
Please feel free to contact me via email at taki@technologymage.com or visit my blog or my Amazon page.
Unfettered Mage
We Are Not Prey
Fleet of the Mage
Mage and Mate
Traditions of Childhood - Sept 2019
Social Combat - Oct 2019
Tattered Wings - Dec 2019
Elemental Connections - Dec 2019
BattleMage Investigates
An Attitude Adjustment
The Case of the Frozen Hand - Nov 2019
Maritime Madness - TBD
Badger Hole Bar
Thru the Badger Hole
Grand Opening
Fashion Forward
The Remembrance Wall - Sept 2019
Dirty Bucket Brewery - Sept 2019
Treasured Knowledge - Dec 2019
Becoming Sephera
A Learning Experience
You Just Go On - 2018
Life Rebuilt - TBD
New Paths - TBD
Standard of Honor
Shade of Honor
Coven Codex
Floating in Time
Road to Honor
Honor’s Bridge - January 2020
Familiar Magic
Familiar Shadows
Familiar Trials - Fledgling
Familiar Travels
Unfamiliar Pathways - Nov 2019
Familiar Trials - Expert - Dec2019
Familiar Trials - Master - TBD
Familiar Trials - Adept - TBD
Cookbooks
The Badger Hole Bar Food Cookbook
Fergus Favorites Cookbook
Marcella's Garden Cookbook
Marcella’s Summer Bounty Cookbook
Marcella’s Autumn Harvest
Tasting Sampler
A Food Palate - Holiday Heartwarmers
Taking it on the Road
Baba’s Kitchen - Coming Soon!
Anthologies
The Expanding Universe: An Exploration of the Science Fiction Genre
The Tide: The Multiverse Wave
Inanna's Circle: Flight of Imagination - Thru the Darkness
Holiday Heartwarmers: An Anthology of Short Stories
Inanna's Circle: The Game Begins
Mysterious Hearts
Journal with a View
CyberWar: Digital Battlefield
CyberWar: Byte Conflict
Prime Fantasy
Phoenix Fantasy
Phoenix Imagining
The Imp Prince
The Goblin and the Grocer
Prime Peek I
Snapshots of Life I
Tales from the Pumpkin Patch
Haunted Hearts I
Reindeer Don’t Fly
Silent Thanks
Shadowed Light
Powerhouse Punch
Notes from the Author
So here I sit with the book going through final editing, and I have to muse at events.
I had thought this was going to be a three-book series. Hah! Yeah, that did not happen. Initially, I gave Taki about 22 thousand words for the first book, focusing on Gwilliam, GMTC, and a few other pieces as requested.
I think maybe 7 thousand words of that first stash made it into this book. Maybe 10 thousand.
As more pieces and reviewed sections were added, I came to the conclusion that I would be lucky if there were fewer than nine books total in the series (of course, that does not include any spin-off works. Those are additional.) 9 books is a long project.
It makes me wonder about authors who complain about a dearth of ideas restricting them. My problem, and I suspect Taki’s, is that our ideas both grow and fight for our attention. Sometimes, I suspect, this results in what has happened to me – having multiple works approaching finish at a similar time.
I’m not entirely sure when the next book in this series will be complete. Sometime in the next six to eight weeks, perhaps. Maybe a bit longer.
My next work, however? That will be out in a fortnight or so. Through the Veil will be released early next month.
My last work? Mongrel’s Tooth and Consequences was released 2 weeks ago and can be found on Amazon (link in the book list).
I hope you enjoyed the book, and keep on reading! If you enjoyed the book, it really helps us if you post a review. It really helps the authors and potential readers.
Author Introduction – Paul C. Middleton
Paul C Middleton has worked several jobs, but has had most of his working life in Security. Patrolling dark empty places gave him much time to think on many things. It was not conducive to finding the time or place to write. Then his partner was diagnosed with severe epilepsy, requiring him to reduce his work hours to care for her.
Never one to let the grass grow under his feet, he found that writing enabled him to be available when she needed him and left him feeling like less of a drain on his friends and the world. He also has to thank his two beagles who have become an efficient Epilepsy warning system. When they 'make tongue' he knows to find his partner and get her into a lounge chair or onto a bed.
He tries to bring an uplifting undertone to his stories, but is happy to admit he has a somewhat dark viewpoint on the world.
You can learn more about Paul and his books by checking out his blog, author Facebook page or website. You may sign up for his mailing list or contact him on Twitter. He welcomes your comments and input!
Mongrelverse Series
Urban fantasy, Mythology with a Twist
Breed Matters
Mixed heritage and the problems it brings
A Mongrel's Curse
Mongrel's Tooth and Consequence
Fury’s Child (2020)
Pack of Mongrels
Learning of the world beneath the obvious
Guarding An Imp (in Flight of the Phoenix)
Seeing or Seering (in Prime Shadows)
Seeking The Seer
Mushroom Karma
The First Dragon Dies (in A Special Kind of Love, 2019)
The Last Letter
Crumbling Under Pressure (in Let Them Eat Pie)
Oathbreaker’s Blood (in The Hand You Were Dealt)
Suddenly Supenatural
Young supes finding their own path in a world that is changing too fast.
Pack, What Pack, Were?
A Solstice Hunt
A Simple Trip (in Prime Fantasy Anthology)
Future Forward, Visions Past
Mother of Monsters
Becoming instead of being
Cursed Mother
Forsaken Motherhood ( 2019)
Mother Reborn ( 2020)
Good Deeds and Bad Company
A Normal in a Supernatural World
First Step (in Shadowed Light)
Through The Veil (2019)
Training Pains (2019/2020)
Mist Guard (2020)
A Duardian Down (2020)
Betrayed by Faith
Loss, Deception, Renewal.
Paladin
A-Viking
Stand alone spinoffs from other Mongrelverse Series
Khazali’s Tale (2019)
Pandora Battalion
The cybercriminals need to be put in a wooden box.
The Pandora Initiative (in Cyberwar: Digital Battlefield)
Operation Blowback (in Cyberwar: Black Ice)
The Boris Chronicles
Kurtherian Universe with Michael Anderle
Evacuation
Retaliation
Revelations
Redemption
The Unfettered Mage
Techmage with an attitude with Taki Drake
Mage and Mate (2019)
Social Combat (2019)
Elemental Connections (2019)
Mage’s Sword (2019-2020)
Other Stories by Taki Drake in the Unfettered Mage Series
We Are Not Prey
Fleet of the Mage
Traditions of Childhood
Short Story Contributions to Anthologies
Inanna's Circle Game
CyberWar: Digital Battlefield
Prime Fantasy
Phoenix Force
Prime Shadows
Flight of the Phoenix
Shadowed Light
Non-Fiction
Military Structures: A Writer’s Guide to Combat
Combat Psychology: A Writer’s Guide to Combat
with Kat Lind
Keep Connected
I am a long-time reader that was convinced to make her initial attempt at writing fiction in this anthology. Intrigued by the concept and challenge of Inanna’s Circle Game, her efforts found their shape in a story reflective of the complexity of life. She currently lives in the Midwest of the US, happily ensconced in the midst of her cats, dogs, and husband. She can be reached at taki@technologymage.com, or by signing up for her newsletter at http://www.technologymage.com. Her blog is at http://www.takidrake-author.com/.
If you would like to learn more about the Phoenix Prime program or authors, please visit pprcollective.com and look for her book-related merchandise here!
Thanks for joining me for this brief time.
Cheerfully, Taki