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Mage and Mate

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by Taki Drake


  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.

  Paul C. Middleton, Slightly crazed author

  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)
r />   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

  Alone in The Mongrelverse

  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

 

 

 


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