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James Paddock is author, novelist, playwright and stage actor, not to mention husband, father, proud grandfather and very proud great-grandfather of many beautiful and intelligent children. Still calling Montana his home, James spends his twilight years writing novels, short stories and plays, in between walking Florida beaches, playing pool and hanging out with his
wonderful wife, Penny.
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Posted August 19, 2018 (Revised from original post September 1, 2011)
The original Smilodon was published in 2002. Notice that the cover has changed. Along with that came a thorough edit and re-edit of the entire book for typos and story consistency. Thus is the NEW and IMPROVED Smilodon.
It is many years later and we want to know what has happened with Zach and his family. Did Tanya forgive him? Did either of his daughters, Rebecca and Christi, learn of the truth about what happened to their mother and father in Montana? I certainly wanted to know so I put my fingers to the keyboard to find out and before I knew it I had Sabre City.
After that ending, holy moly I can’t believe what happened, I knew there had to be more. You can’t have a bunch of sabre-toothed cats wandering around Montana without something happening. And what about Reba? What’s with her? Curious, I woke up my computer and began, again, with the next book in the series, the one I would call The Last Sabre.
It was a lot of fun writing the sabre-toothed cat trilogy. I'm often asked if it'll ever go to four books. There is another story in there that might need telling and after 15+ years, the time may be right. Maybe I'll wait for the 20th year. As they say, where have all the children gone? Those who have read the stories will know what that means. What do you think? A 4th book, following the children?
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