Unique Jobs in Elemental Dragons

Hi all,

This week I wanted to do something a bit different and discuss some jobs that are unique to the Elemental Dragons universe. They might not appear in any of the books (yet) but I thought it would be fun to tell you about what different careers there are when dragons are involved.

Dragon Groomer

Obviously pet groomers exist, so dragon groomers would exist too. Their scales need to polished, their claws cut and their horns sharpened. It's like a spa day for dragons. Not all of them like being groomed, but instances of violence are extremely rare.

Scale Sculptor

Most scale sculptors are ethical and only use scales that have fallen off dragons. They use them to make jewellery, furniture and sometimes in clothes. However, there is a black market for certain dragon scales, especially those from rarer species.

Drake Rancher

In Original Elementals, Drakes are the best form of transport in the beginning of the book. They pull carriages, haul loads and carry people to their destinations. So, there are farms filled with Drakes that are cared for by ranchers until they can be sold. These ranchers are experienced in dragon care and often keep livestock on their farms to feed their Drakes. Some farms breed Drakes to get the best offspring, which can be sold for higher prices. Drake shows are common, where Drake ranchers gather to show off their stock.

Fairy Flushers

Fairy Dragons are considered the rarest species in the Elemental Dragons. Fairy Flushers are specially trained to track and flush out Fairy Dragons for those willing to purchase them. Their job is highly unethical and it results in the destruction of many Fairy Dragon nests. They use a mix of chemicals and fire to 'flush' Fairy Dragons out of their nests into traps and cages. This profession is illegal, but it's hard to police.

Primordial Archaeologist

These archaeologists primarily study Primordial dragons. They are the ones who have discovered most of the history behind these massive dragons and we're able to figure out when and how they died out. They dedicate years of their lives studying skeletons and fossils. This job is interesting but is often looked down upon by archaeologists who focus solely on studying Draca, as they believe he is the one with all the answers.

That's just some of the jobs unique to the Elemental Dragons universe. If you'd like me to write about more, let me know.

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My Longest Series is now Complete

Hi all,

With the end of July, also came the end of the Original Elementals series. All ten books have now had their first drafts written. I've started self-editing book one while I'm trying to figure out my publishing plan.

As I said in my wrap-up post, I highly doubt I'm going to do a series that long again.

It was overwhelming, hard and tiring.

I wrote so much of that story that I had to take a break for a year. I physically couldn't bring myself to start the next book.

It was mentally taxing, but I'm glad I did it.

I wrote all ten first drafts, I wrote the series from beginning to end. The story has been told and I'm so glad that I got it out of my head.

Now that I've done it, I know I'm not built for writing a long series. Ten books was too much, I've found that I like variety and getting to spend time in other universes.

Book six was when I hit my limit and desperately needed a break. For now, I'm going to limit writing a series to six books. Any more than that and I know that I'll be pushing myself beyond my limits.

I don't regret writing the series at all and I absolutely love it. But it was a hard journey, one that I wasn't expecting when I first planned the books out.

If you're an author, it's good to experiment with the length of books and series. Just remember to listen when your mind tells you that you've had enough. Give yourself a break, or finish the series early. If you force yourself, it will show in your writing. You might not think it will, but readers can tell when you started getting bored or wanted to move on.

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July 2026 Project Wrap-Up

Hi all,

July is over, which means that it's time to tell you all how I did with my latest book, Original Elementals #10: Ironclaw.

My final word count is...

74,868 words!

I did skip a day on 11th July, as it was my wedding reception!

It's so weird having finished this series. I've been writing it for years so it feels very weird now that the series is complete.

It follows Melissa and Ironclaw, the first metal Elementals. They want to become one of the Originals, but they have quite the journey to get there.

This book features Draca I, and what happened to them on the mountain with the other Originals. The Wyrms are also prominent, having almost completely consumed Draca's mind.

To their surprise, one of the dragon guards, Mu, turns his back on his companion and follows Melissa out of Aria. They come across Stella, who tells them her side of the story.

This book was emotional in many ways. Writing a ten book series is rewarding but so tiring. I got burned out from writing which is a feeling I never want to go through again. I'll be keeping my series shorter from now on, no more than six or seven books in one series. It's too much other wise.

But that hasn't stopped me from loving exploring more of the Elemental Dragons universe! I love writing about dragons and getting more into the lore. Blood and Water was the first book I ever finished and I'm so glad for everything it taught me. Getting the prequel series done is such an amazing feeling.

I'm definitely not done with the Elemental Dragons universe, I have a few ideas for more books in the future. But for now, I'm going to focus on editing Original Elementals and deciding how I want to publish it.

That's it for this week, I hope you enjoyed reading! See you next week. 

July 2026 Writing Project Announcement

Hi all,

July is rapidly approaching so it's time to announce my writing project! As there's only one more book remaining in the Original Elementals series, that will be my July project.

The book is called Ironclaw, and it follows Melissa and her dragon companion who the book is named after. She is the first metal Elemental but she is not allowed to show her powers to the world.

The book is set a few years after the conclusion of book nine, so the other characters are slightly older. Melissa is fifteen.

Although she lives at Aria, she has to be kept away from Ironclaw and her markings have to be hidden. Because Ironclaw has metal markings, in order not to make others suspicious she has to tell people that he died soon after hatching.

Melissa desperately wants to be recognised as an Original and decides to seek out Jaime, who wrote the books on the other Originals. She begs him to write a book about her and he agrees.

But, in order to feel like an Original, Melissa decides to perform a great feat like the others did. But they have a separate plan of their own, one they don't want her interfering with.

I'm quite excited to write the final book in the series, though I'm also sad as well. The series has to come to an end at some point. Ten books is the longest series I've written so far, and I'm not sure I'll be aiming to beat it anytime soon. Switching main characters definitely helped, though I did experience burnout when writing this series.

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The Final Book in the Original Elementals Series

Hi all,

I know I teased you about this in my wrap up for Original Elementals #9: Arcturus, but I think I've left you in the dark long enough.

There will be a tenth book in the series, which I'm sure you've already figured out by now.

This book will follow Melissa, the first metal Elemental.

If you've read Elemental Dragons, then you probably remember when Hazel and her friends come across giant vats filled with elemental serum. One of those is labelled as the metal element, but they don't get much chance to investigate.

The tenth book, Ironclaw, will tell the story of the forgotten Original. Born a few years after the others, she is in her first year at Aria when Stella graduates. She has not met the Originals in person, all she knows about them is from her first edition books that her father let's her read.

Melissa and Ironclaw want to be like the other Originals and she's desperate for her own book to tell her story. But her father, a lead scientist, refuses this because the stories of the Originals have been tainted. He's also worried about anyone knowing her element, so she has to hide her markings and tell everyone that her dragon died.

But Melissa is stubborn and desperate to go down in history with the other Originals. She contacts Jaime, who is now a disgraced author, and pleads with him to write her book. Seeing that this could be a comeback for him, he agrees.

And that's all I'm going to tell you so far! This book will most likely be my July project, finally ending the series.

I'm still deciding what to do regarding a Patreon, as I keep flipping back and forth on the idea. I've asked my newsletter subscribers to give their feedback, and I'll see what they say.

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My First Dragon Book

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The first dragon book that I wrote was not Blood and Water. I actually wrote about 30K words for a different dragon book when I was fifteen.

This book followed Russet, a dragon hatchling that escaped a petting zoo. She was born into it and didn't know anything other than it, but she always dreamed of running in the forest. One day, when she was a few months old and able to use her wings, she escapes.

At first she loved exploring the forest and all the animals there, until hunger set in. The forest was scarier at night, with predators such as foxes and badgers which attacked her for getting too close to their dens.

Eventually she went back to the zoo to start stealing food and water, which went on for months. Then she met a baby dragon called Lily. Lily was only a few days old, but kept calling out to Russet whenever she saw her. When Lily was old enough to talk, she asked Russet to help her escape. She said that she was special, and was destined to find six unhatchable dragon eggs to learn elemental powers. These elements were fire, water, air, earth, electricity and light.

Russet helps Lily escape and another baby dragon called Xerxes uses the opportunity to escape with them. From there, the three of them travel across the continent looking for the eggs to help Lily achieve her destiny. But the humans know what Lily is, and they desperately want her back. They follow the group on their quest, hoping to stop Lily before she reaches the final egg.

As I'm sure you've realised, some of the elements of this story did carry over to Elemental Dragons! Russet, although not in the main story, has her story told in the Short Story Collection. This time instead of escaping the petting zoo, she is forced into it when her companion dies.

Fire, water, earth, air, electricity and light all made it into the Elemental Dragons series as well. Air was renamed Wind and Dark and Ice were added as elements as well.

This story had the dragons as the main characters, rather than humans. They couldn't understand human speech but knew that they wanted to capture the dragons again. Along the way they meet more dragon characters, all of different types who help and hinder them on their quest.

I eventually stopped writing this book because I came up with the idea for Element Dragons instead. I borrowed a few ideas from the book and decided to write a brand new story. As much as I liked writing the initial story, I fell in love writing Blood and Water and knew that would be my first finished book.

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Elemental Dragons #1: Blood and Water is going to be 99p on Amazon.UK for the entire month of February!

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Dragon markings aren’t supposed to appear on humans… but Hazel has them all over her back.

The government sends Hazel, along with every teenager in the country, to an elemental camp to master their powers before they get out of hand. But when her dragon egg hatches into a rare colour, her element is the least of her problems.

Now under scrutiny, she must make sure that no-one ever finds out about the strange markings on her back. If they do, they will permanently sever the bond with her dragon, leaving him dead and her in eternal agony.

What she doesn’t know is that there are others in a similar predicament to her. All different elements and all different markings, but with one thing in common: a previously extinct dragon wants to eat them to consume their powers.

In a world where political parties divide those who would live with dragons as equals or slaves, she needs to figure out the truth before she is swallowed alive by the dragon hunting her.

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The Old Elemental Dragons Prequel

Hi all,

Before I started writing the Original Elementals series, I was planning a different prequel. This one would have been a standalone, set around twenty years before Elemental Dragons.

It would feature the parents of the elementals. Mainly focusing on Hazel's and Rocky's mother and father - Silva and Trey.

Silva just tries to keep her head down and get through school, but she's currently with Trey. He's a serial womaniser who dumps women when he has enough of them. His worst nightmare is having children as that would interfere with his dream of doing whatever he wants.

They would have been eighteen, just a few years away from graduating and going into the real world. Across a few weeks, they would have spotted something moving through the school at night. Upon further investigation, it would be a Hydra.

At first the group would try to report the dragon but they wouldn't be believed or listened to. A teacher and their dragon goes missing but no-one bats an eyelid. That's when the group decides to investigate themselves.

After a few disastrous tries, they manage to capture it. Instead of being hailed as heroes, they are instead scolded for capturing it as it would curse them and the school. Each of the group would then be cursed in various ways. A few would have been:

Silva would be destined to lose everything.

Trey would be destined to impregnate every woman he sleeps with.

Tran, Wes' mother, would have everyone always take the credit for her work.

Daynah, Marco and Mason's mother, would always want what everyone else has.

David, Melia and Violet's father, would lose his dragon due to his own laziness.

After cursing them, the Hydra moves on. But none of them believe that their curses will come true. It's only when David refuses to take his dragon, Amelia, to the vet that it all starts to unravel. He couldn't be bothered to take her, so her minor wounds got infected and she died.

Tran reports the group to the headmaster but he takes the credit for discovering what they've done.

Over the years, Trey impregnates four women, one of which is Silva. He has Rocky and Hazel with her. He manages to find a woman who is infertile, but even she manages to get pregnant. He eventually leaves Silva, which makes her curse come true. He takes the money they made from the experiments on their children too.

Ultimately this was discarded when I made the elementals clones rather than the biological children of their parents. I liked the idea, but I wasn't quite sure if I could ever tie it together properly with the main series. Hence why it was scrapped and I came up with Original Elementals instead.

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Dragons and Cats

Hi all,

It's been a while since I've written a post about cats so I thought I'd fix that!

In the Elemental Dragons universe, dragons can communicate with cats as they speak the same language. I've mentioned in the past that the two have different dialects but for the most part they can understand each other.

A lot of dragons prefer cats to dogs if they have more of a calmer temperament. This is because they tend to prefer relaxing and snoozing in the sunshine. But they sometimes play, though this gets harder as the dragons get bigger!

The dragons would consider the cat a part of their family, though they don't see each other as siblings. But they tend to have strong bonds that struggle to be broken. Cats can be more aloof, but a lot of times they make it clear that they do love any dragons they're close to.

The one thing that cats hate doing is flying on the back of a dragon. Travelling along the ground is fine and usually preferred for lazy felines. But they don't like being taken up into the air. The wind and cold is too much for them so they will react violently if they are made to fly without wanting to. 

In some rare cases dragons and cats don't get on at all. This may be because of a clash of personality or extreme jealousy. But as long as someone gives both equal attention and is patient, these obstacles can be overcome.

If I had a dragon, I'd like to think that it would get along with my cat, Mishka. She likes being the centre of attention but maybe a scaly friend would make her reconsider!

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Being Nothing in Elemental Dragons

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It's been a while since I've written a post about the lore of Elemental Dragons and I don't think I've covered this topic too much before.

First of all, what is a Nothing?

In the Elemental Dragons universe, a person or dragon whose partner dies is considered a Nothing. This is because it is really hard to exist without the other.

There are a few examples of Nothings in the books, but the main one that's shown is Bluey (aka Muddy). When he's introduced in Venom and Earth, he is shown without a human companion. The group takes him in with them and he travels with them. But he can't get too close to the city without a human as otherwise they would target him as a Nothing.

What happens to Nothings?

For humans, they're immediately thrown out of any camp that they're in if they're under nineteen. All of their work towards their education is discarded and they are forced to enter the adult world with nothing but the clothes on their back. They don't get the same job opportunities as everyone else and they are looked down upon for having a dead dragon.

For dragons, they are immediately taken to zoos or farms to perform as entertainment. They can be ridden on and fed but they are not treated well. They are not allowed to exist on their own in the wild as they are considered a drain on the ecosystem. This is best seen with Russet and Moon in the Elemental Dragons Short Story Collection.

Can two Nothings pass as companions?

At the end of Cinder and Fire, it's shown that Marco and Cerberus have joined up and are passing off as each other's companions. This can be common for Nothings but very few get away with this in the longterm. The ones that do get away with it tend to have the same elements. If their elements differ, it's a lot harder to get away with.

One day I'd love to write a book about Nothings in the Elemental Dragons universe. But before I start on that I'm going to finish the Original Elementals series. Maybe after that I can focus on what the next series of the universe will be.

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