James G Patton

Hey everyone, just reaching out to let everyone know I haven't dropped off.  Give you a few updates. First, Seventh Talon was pulled while I work on getting some of the edits done, and working out the stories for the next books. Not abandoning it, just need to fix some things. Second, I'm working on Lantern Online as we speak. Trying to get my edits done and figure out what I want to do with future books in that line. Right now Lantern Online is being developed as a stand alone novel, but I have an idea of running multiple story lines in here based on different types of characters. Then at some point doing a team up trilogy, and at that point you might see Bran from Office Wars making an appearance. Office Wars - I'm working the omnibus for this, it'll be a little different than the original story, as I'll change most of the logues into memory fragments and rearrange a few things. All of this in preparation for getting an audio in place for it. Thanks for ...

Hello Everyone, Sorry I have not given an update in a few months. I am hard at work on Office Wars 3, and this book will wrap up the series. I hope you enjoy the conclusion. I also want to apologize for the delay, but I really didn't like what I originally wrote and the jokes just felt too forced. I threw it all out and wrote Seventh Talon to get my mind off it and came back to it. I like what I have now and this book will have more game humor, more floors, and more slice of life stuff. Not sure on an ETA yet, but its moving along quickly. Hopefully I'll give news shortly. Thank you, J. Gabe Patton

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 draf...

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...

I'm still here! Just plugging away at my stories.  One of the stories is getting closer to done.  I had to redo a bit of it to capture the POV just right, which slowed me down.  However, I think the story is better for it. Not much longer now.  I  hope. Thanks, JGP

Hello everyone, I have put the digital copy of the second book of Office Wars up on Amazon for Pre-Order.  Launch date is August 1st, 2017 , and the paperback version will be available on that day too.  Amazon does not let me put the paperback version up for preorder.  Visit my  Amazon Author Page and the book pre-order page is  Office Wars: Bathroom Politics I have a few more edits and want to try out a few beta readers before my release date, but I am pretty happy with where it is at.  I enjoyed writing this book and hope you enjoy it too. Feel free to check out my author site at: JamesGPatton.com

4 The Words is a site that uses gamification to help writers.  The setup is like that of an RPG where you have to fight monsters to collect items.  Each monster has a time limit and a word count you have to beat, as seen below.  This is just one of many monsters. I find it fun for distracting me while I write, and it is a great tool to use if you want to force yourself to write so many words a day.  The time limits are generous, as long as you don't stop writing.  I enjoy the site quite a bit. Feel free to visit my author site and blog at:   James G Patton's Author Site

Tabletop Audio This site is great and free to set the ambiance for writing scenes.  The site is constantly adding more audio clips and they will run on a loop for you.  Figured I'd give the site a shout out because I find myself using it quite a bit lately. James G Patton's Amazon Author Page