Tag: Battlecry Series

emeralddodge:

justafewocprompts:

Is your OC a good or bad driver?

Let’s assume that they’ve all learned how to drive.

Jill would be a good driver in the sense that she has great reflexes and senses. However, I can see her being nothing short of a public menace if she were to drive, say, a motorcycle or a zippy sports car. She likes speed and showing off–a bad combination.

Reid would be the guy driving exactly 65 mph on the freeway because “IT’S THE LAW, GUYS. IT’S THE SPEED LIMIT.”

Marco would be a great driver. 

Ember would be a bad driver because she would have trouble focusing. 

Benjamin is a pretty good driver. He has experience driving both cars and trucks, and generally doesn’t feel the need to speed since he can run faster than any automobile.

Since I can’t ask anything about Sentinel yet, can you tell us about Benjamin’s life pre-Battlecry?

emeralddodge:

Of course! 

  • Benjamin’s middle name is Philip.
  • He is a graduate of the prestigious Severn School’s class of 2013. He graduated with a 3.8.
  • His mother is unsure whether his father is Henry Trent or Henry’s younger brother, Franklin “Frankie” Trent, Jr. Nobody knows of her doubts.
  • He took Accutane for a while to clear up some pretty bad acne, and his face bears faint acne scarring.
  • Like Jillian, he is 5′11.5 feet tall. 
  • He’s dated two women before Jillian: Janet and Felicia. Both were tall brunette athletes. (dude has a type)
  • He doesn’t have a favorite food, but rather a food category: sweets of all kinds. The sweeter, the better.
  • Pottemore sorted him into Ravenclaw.
  • Virtually all Supers are somehow related to people in the camps (who are approaching inbred). Benjamin’s great-grandmother’s maiden name was Fischer; her family left the camps in the late 1930s in protest of how the Jewish Supers were being treated by camp leadership. Reid and Benjamin are first cousins, several times removed. (The story of how they discovered this, Light One Candle, will probably be in the box set.)

Once all the books are out, do you think there will be a set option of them? Also I’m really impressed with and happy about how quickly you wrote and processed the second book AND I CAN’T FREAKING WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE but I’m trying not to set my expectations too high for a similar tempo lol

emeralddodge:

I’m 90% sure there will be a huge Battlecry series omnibus for sale before too long–the only question is what I’ll put in it! I have a TON of options:

  • Artemis
  • Several short stories (including Benjamin’s POV of when he met Jill, the park scene, and the warehouse scene!)
  • A few more short stories that take place between Battlecry and Sentinel
  • A short biographical story of a side character introduced in Sentinel

The real question is what I’ll do with Excalibur. By legal contract, Excalibur is part of the Enclave Authors box set Of Beasts and Beauties, which is doing pretty darn well. I’m not sure if I want to remove Excalibur to put into my own box set. I will discuss this with my colleagues in the next few months, and ask them their own plans for their stories.

If I do remove Excalibur, I’ll also commission a new cover (I really dislike the current one) from my usual artist and also release it as a .99 solo book on Amazon.

Sentinel was almost entirely done by the time Battlecry hit Amazon. I had some minor revisions to do (just cleaning things up and tweaking a word here and there), but basically all of Sentinel was written in 2016-2017. Mercury is about 3-5 chapters from being “done,” but of course I’ll need to revise in places, and then submit it to the proofreader. It is currently slated for a 10/1/18 release, and I plan to stick to that.

I hope Sentinel meets your expectations! I’m so excited! 😀