Monthly Archives: May 2011

Work in Progress: The Young Sorceress

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The truth is that I had to set this book aside.  The plot got so complicated that there was no way that I could work on it after school and on weekends and keep it straight.  It may be too complicated anyway.  I may have to start all over.  But if I continue as it is, I definitely need to wait until summer, when I can devote all my time to it.

When summer comes, if I’m nearly done with what I’m working on, I’ll finish it.  Otherwise, I’ll set it aside and retackle The Young Sorceress.  I need to get it done, because as I’ve said before, book 5 in the series The Two Dragons is essentially complete.  It needs a quick rewrite for continuity’s sake and I might add a chapter or two.  Whenever I manage to publish the Young Sorceress, The Two Dragons should follow within a month or two.

Work in Progress: Sons of Armageddon

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I wasn’t planning on writing a sequel to Tesla’s Stepdaughters, but the plot just came to me one day and I whipped out an outline and wrote the first few chapters.  That’s kind of the way Tesla’s Stepdaughters itself happened.  It just came out.  I think this story will be a good one, and this could be the start of a series of John Andrews detective stories, but I probably won’t get to this book this year.

Work in Progress: Women of Power

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I’m really almost done with this one.  I’ve got only about a chapter or so to go on the draft, but I set it aside until this summer.  I have the ending all plotted of course, but I kind of stopped feeling it there for a while.  This is going to be a novella of about 35,000 words, and is of course about superheroes, supervillains, alien invasions, mecha-warriors, and all that good stuff.

Work in Progress: The Jungle Girl

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I was really excited when I started the Jungle Girl and wrote the first five chapters.  This is sort of another homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs, or maybe my attempt to immitate Burroughs.  I just love his stories and I write what I love.  I just finished another of his books a few weeks ago– The Deputy Sherrif of Commanche County.  But I digress.

I am going to get back to this story sometime soon.  It is basically a jungle adventure story, as you might have guessed from the title.  There are a few sci-fi twists– it wouldn’t be a Wesley Allison story if there weren’t some cross-genre things going on.  Like Princess of Amathar, it’s a first person story– and it’s been a while since I’ve written one of those.

Work in Progress: Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Queen of Aerithraine

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I wasn’t planning on writing another Eaglethorpe Buxton anytime soon, but I knew that the next one would be Eaglethorpe and the Queen of Aerithtaine.  Then I thought up a really funny line and had to write it, so I ended up writing the first few pages of the story.  Eaglethorpe Buxton stories are really short (though this one might be bit longer) so I could sit down and pound it out pretty quick, but I’m probably thinking I’ll wait till this summer.

The first two EB stories are out there as free downloads, and a new one would be too short to charge even 99 cents for, so I’m thinking I might write two this summer and package them with the first two (maybe rewritten) as the Many Adventures of Eaglethorpe Buxton.  If I do, the fourth story could be any one of a number that I have rattling around in my head, but the most likely would be Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Werewolf.

Work in Progress: Knights of Amathar

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This project has been in the works literally for years now.  I plotted out the story just after I finished Princess of Amathar and I’ve started writing it a couple of times.  At some point I know I’m going to finish it.  If I keep up my goal of completing five books a year, then I’ll have to get it done next year or year after, even if I don’t manage to get to it this year.

The story, like Princess of Amathar, is a first person adventure from the point of view of stranded Earth-man Alexander Ashton.  There will be lots of sword-fighting, laser gun fighting, and strange alien monsters.  The evil Zoasians of course make a return as do all the surviving Amatharians from the first book.

City of Amathar Banner Change

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I’ve changed the banner of City of Amathar Blog.  For the past two a half years it has said “The Official Blog of School Teacher / Novelist Wesley Allison.”  I have changed it to “The Official Blog of Author Wesley Allison.”  This is not because I’ve given up being a teacher.  I haven’t.  Nor is it because I’m not still proud to be a teacher.  I am.  But I’ve decided I can’t blog about being a teacher.  I just don’t have it in me.  I can’t shout into the wind anymore.  Teachers have gone from being underappreciated to being the scapegoats and whipping boys of politicians, pundits, and commentators who don’t have a clue.  I’ll continue to do my best, for more, with less.  But after I get home from work, I’m not going to carry it with me anymore.  From now on, when I get home I’m no longer Mr. Allison.  I’m just Wesley Allison.