* The Boy Who Played with Fire (Part 1), the first of Jess C Scott’s dragon-themed stories (7,700 words).
SUMMARY: A teenage hooligan with a penchant for playing with fire goes in search of a dragon, before stumbling upon the London Underground’s deadly secret.
* The Boy Who Played with Fire (Part 1), the first of Jess C Scott’s dragon-themed stories (7,700 words).
SUMMARY: A teenage hooligan with a penchant for playing with fire goes in search of a dragon, before stumbling upon the London Underground’s deadly secret.
GENRE: Urban Fantasy / Action & Adventure / Fantasy & Magic
NOTE: Jess is thinking of combining this with another separate dragon story (bringing the two plots together, and possibly bringing in some characters from her cyberpunk Elven series)—she'll see how that goes.
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PRAISE for Jess C Scott:
“[Please] keep up the good work . . . the world can certainly use some more authentic, original work like yours, rather than the same old re-packaged mass-market pulp.”
— TGirl Revelations / Bibrary.com, October 2010
“Dear Jess: You are a very good writer — I like your plotting, your concept, the characters…pretty much everything. I would love to see future writing projects by you. You are very gifted.”
— Dr. Uwe Stender, May 2010
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EXCERPT:
*2 a.m., four of them, stealthing around in the London Underground.*
Pax couldn’t get the image out of his mind. No better way to spend an otherwise lackluster Saturday night.
“$20,000 for the dragon’s head!” ran the televised message on MythoBusters, a few hours ago. “Get her before she gets you. She lies somewhere, deep in the heart of the underground…”
Pax Wu and Ashley Rae had been curled up on the couch during the episode. Prashanti Priya was making out with Chris Lotts somewhere on the floor, to one side of the small, hand-me-down TV set. Four housemates: two of them aimless job-hopping punks, while the other two were Liberal Arts undergraduates, frequently playing truant. The group of friends called their clique "FourSquared" ("4Sq." for short).
"She glows like a green crystal--get her before she gets you."
Jess is a full-time author/artist/non-conformist. She works in a diverse range of genres such as urban fantasy, erotic (not pornographic) fiction, young adult fiction, poetry, and cyberpunk.
As a writer, Jess focuses on style and substance over short-term success with current fads and marketing hype.
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* The Boy Who Played with Fire (Part 1), the first of Jess C Scott’s dragon-themed stories (7,700 words).SUMMARY: A teenage hooligan with a penchant for playing with fire goes in search of a dragon, before stumbling upon the London Underground’s deadly secret.
GENRE: Urban Fantasy / Action & Adventure /...