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Steam and Twitch

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I’m a writer that loves playing video games. Loads of fantasy and science fiction inspiration can come from playing video games.

I’ve streamed a bit on Twitch, but I hope to stream just about everything I play. I play a lot of single player games and some multiplayer ones. Some games include: Borderlands series, Garry’s Mod, Alan Wake, Don’t Starve Together, The Forest, and more.

Feel free to add me on Steam to follow what I’m playing and check out my library, or follow my Twitch to see when I’m streaming.

Shattered Soul sequel novel now available, including no spoilers to the first novel: Amazon and CreateSpace

Get the first one, Shattered Soul: Elements of Lightning, here: Amazon and CreateSpace

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It’s that time of year…

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The holidays are among us. As Wal-Mart and Hobby Lobby stocked for the occasion several months ago, Halloween strikes the first of the major holiday season.

But to pc gamers, the holidays only means one thing. SALES!

I am an active user of Steam, a DRM for pc games. They are always having huge sales you will never get with console games (sorry console gamers.) Point and case, the Halloween Steam Sale.When I began my adventures into pc gaming, I would become broke within several days of one of these holiday sales. Gabe Newell knows how to get your money.

Now, this video is for the summer sale from this past summer, but I believe it still holds many aspects to any Steam Sale survival.

As for me, I’m going to ignore the sale this time, and continue in working on my sequel getting finalized. Just waiting on the cover really. Aside from waiting, the third installment of the Shattered Soul series is coming along nicely, and so is the first extension from the series. These next two won’t be far apart from my sequel, I’m making sure of that.

Editing Sequel

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Working on phase one of the editing process of my sequel steampunk novel, Shattered Soul: Elements of Blood.
Following the events of the sci-fi book, Elements of Lightning, readers do not have to read the first one before this book. The Shattered Soul series will all be connected, but will not give any spoilers to other Shattered Soul novels out or to come.
With the release of the sequel, Elements of Lightning will be re-released with a bonus chapter, the prologue of Elements of Blood.
In other news, I should finally be getting an official website soon. A lot of obstacles came up in my life so I wasn’t able to yet, and the free site setups aren’t very appealing. I may be picky, but oh well.
The editing shouldn’t take too long. I hope Elements of Blood will be out before December, or a bit into December. Hey, nothing like a steampunk fantasy novel for a Christmas present, right?

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Tron Inspired the Lightning Plane

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I’ve been a huge fan of Disney’s Tron for years. The idea of a world inside computers sounds so cool! The Grid was a huge inspiration for the idea of my Lightning Plane.

The Lightning Plane in my novel is accessed only by those of the Lightning Element, like Ace Venx. A Lightning Elementalist must use a source of electricity or something that has electricity running through it, like computers.

I couldn’t pass the chance to homage to my favourite Disney movie(s). The Lightning Plane is a digital frontier with a fast paced environment. Made up of things that look like the inside of a computer, the plane is probably the more unique amongst the other planes that are in the novel or future novels.

More are the come in the next books, so keep an eye out for Elements of Blood soon!

Get Elements of Lightning at these two sites!
http://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Soul-Elements-Lightning-1/dp/1494814633/
https://www.createspace.com/4591145

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Sequel! Sequel! SEQUEL!

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Everyone likes series, right? Well I like the idea of writing them. I hope to catch people’s interest with my steampunk sequel to Elements of Lightning with not only a long coming series of books, but the idea that you could pick up any book in the series without the worry of having to read the ones before it. I hope this will bring in more fans if they get into the series after a few books are published. Or perhaps give people a variety of main characters while keeping to an overall plot.
Now it is still a series, so there will be references and links in the books for those who read it in order.
I hope by the time I am done writing the sequel, this will be apparent. Elements of Blood should be ready to go in the next few months.