Jake Elliot's Blog

NIWA is the Northwest Independent Writers’ Association. NIWA’s primary goal is to help Northwest area writers achieve professional standards in independent writing, publishing, and marketing. Every year, NIWA releases an anthology, this year’s writing topic was Asylum.

The back book blurb reads;

A religious refugee fleeing for his life in his own country. A trickster asking an enemy for safe haven. A horrific visit to a psychiatric ward overrun by its charges. An unexplained theft from a bi...

OryCon is happening this weekend, but I’m not going this year. In fact, I’m not doing anything for the rest of this year. That’s just how it is.

Anyhow, check out my books on the ‘My Books’ tab. Like me, they’re just hanging around. The final book in the Heretic Series will be out next year (2016) but I’m not sure when. It is written, but I’m not satisfied with it. The beginning and ending are solid, but there are a few spots in the middle that seem weak to me. The wrinkles will get ironed ou...

Currently, until August 25th, 2015, four copies of my third novel, Hounds of the Hunted are in a giveaway on Goodreads at the light blue link you just read passed. Right now, your odds are about 1 in 12 to win. Those are pretty good odds for a free shot.

Also, I will be in Spokane, Washington, for the 73rd world Sci-Fi Convention from Aug 19th until Aug 23rd. If you are there, please stop by and see me in the dealers’ room. I’ll have manytitles with me, including several out of print antholo...

I will be at Pioneer Courthouse Square all day Saturdayat the tent that is titled “Pick Your Poison.” Proudly, I will be standing beside award winning author and film-maker, Chad Coenson, and actor/author Jesse Vint, whose goes as far back as working with Bruce Dern in Silent Running andalsostarred with Jack Nicholson in Chinatown. The two lady authors joining us are April Aasheim, and a mysterious dark muse travelingonly by the name of Athena. She might be a goddess among...

Recently, Mike Phillips asked if I’d like to be on his podcast and talk about thestruggles with my old publisher and what it took to break free from their shoddy practices. We talk about drug addictions, death, and manyother fun things that can be foundin my writing. Here is a link to Mike’s Podcast.

As a reminder, I’ll be reading from Hounds of the Hunted tonight at 6pm at the awesome taproom named Three Mugs in Hillsboro, Oregon. They have something like 22 beers from all over the world on...

For real, my third book, Hounds of the Hunted is out on Amazon both in paperback and e-book. Soon, after I’ve found the will (and time) to adhere to their formatting guidelines, I will publish on Smashwords so the story will also be available onboth Nook and Apple products. Finally, ifyou are in Oregon, take a little trip to Hillsboro on Saturday, June 27th,and you can find mereading from Hounds of the Hunted at Three Mugs Public House with five other authors including April Aashiem and actor...

So, Hounds of the Hunted was expected to be out today. It isn’t out yet.

The final read-through turned up some good spots that needed a bit of altering — nothing major, but time consuming. My awesome proofreader found a bit more stuff than I found and those little tweaks need to be made. I need a couple (2?) more days and by the weekend (June 19th), it will be out. It really is that close to release. I just overshot my target a little.

Here is the Prologue just for you.The book synopsis is...

I’m going to keep this real simple. I’m running behind–like normal–but within the next couple of weeks Hounds of the Hunted will be available in paperback and e-book. (June 15th 2015.)

From my cramped observation spot in the Dealers’ Room, a Dalek rolled by while announcing in its static-mechanical voice, “Doc, doc, exterminate!!” Behind the Dalek walked a woman with a remote control in hand, eager to drive the crowds out of theway. Rolling behind her, a masked lady rode on a scooter that had been transformed into a red dragon. On my right stood a row of magical staves and a table offering boob/cleavage ornaments…you get the picture. On my left side danced Mr. Sinister in a...

Some people get offended when authors write book reviews, especially ofbooks wherein they have stories. In a sense, it seems like cannibalism. Personally, I’d love to read other people’s opinions about this collection rather than deal with platitudes about how I should be acting. Take this with a grain of salt or trust it as the gospel, but this is the account of my five favorite stories from this collection, and mine was not one of them.

Truth be told, my deeper point of writing this review...