The Iron Teeth: A Goblin's Tale Worldshift Beta Reading and Discord

Worldshift Beta Reading and Discord

Alright, Ive finally gotten this entire novel written, edited, and prepared for beta reading. Writing a book takes a long ti. Who knew? Here's the plot summary of Worldshift: Virtual Revolution.

Society has grown rich thanks to automation and technology. As a result, jobs are scarce, but its easy for society to provide its people with all their basic needs. Strict proscriptions on research and developnt prevent disruption, while the governnt tightly controls comrce with the help of the ga corporations to prevent economic disharmony.

Ethan is young and unemployed. One of the many who fail to find a job and join the elite. Nonetheless, he lives a secure life thanks to the economic support he gets, and he finds excitent playing virtual reality gas where he can take risks and lash out.

However, despite his security and determination to avoid whats happening around him in the real world, he cant help but feel that sothing is wrong with society. That feeling becos inescapable when he starts playing the latest event in the worlds most popular ga, Worldshift. Thousands of players are lured into climbing the Tower of Ascension by an incredible prize, where they team-up and battle amongst themselves, but nothing is as it seems. The tower is far more than a ga. Not only are its rewards real, but so are its dangers.

Change is coming to a long stagnant world -a virtual revolution- and everything Ethan knows will be threatened.

Writing Worldshift was an experint and an exercise to improve my writing craft. Its a combination of a more traditional sci-fi and litrpg. I wanted a chance to write a contained story with a obvious beginning and end that was a single book in length. I also wanted the chance to really edit it several tis before it was released, which you cant do with a web serial. The end product is very different from The Iron Teeth, but I hope people like it. At over 160000 words its not short.

I believe that writing Worldshift made a better writer though. Among other things, it allowed to focus on how to craft interesting characters that feel more real and have contained arcs.

The beta draft of the novel is available to VIP tier users at Patreon if youre interested in taking part in the beta reading. Ive set up a discord server so that beta readers can discuss the novel.

If youre not interested in that, then you can still head over to the discord to chat with people about my work. There are several channels where you can discuss different things. After the beta reading is done and I've done another round of editing, I plan on making this novel availible on Amazon.

Thanks for reading!