Paperbacks etc.

Astrid Maxxim 2So, what’s with all the paperbacks I’ve been posting about over the past week?  I’ve revamped my paper book line a bit.  I’ve gotten rid of the more expensive trade-sized paperbacks and hardbacks and have picked out the best price points for the more affordable digest-sized books.  Now, I’m going to get digest paperback books for the rest of my books.  I’ll post about them as they are ready.  The first one should be available in about a week.

The paper books are mostly for me.  I buy them and give them to friends.  I give them to students.  I take them to the library event every year, just for fun mostly.  Every once in a while though, somebody else wants to buy one and now they will be able too.

If anyone else is interested, I’ll be making a hardbound volume that contains all 7 Senta and the Steel Dragon books together.  I anticipate 2 of these being printed– one for myself and one for my son, but just in case, if anyone wants one, I’ll post when it’s available.

Princess of Amathar : $6.99 in Paperback

Princess of AmatharPrincess of Amathar

by Wesley Allison

Price: $6.99
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Transported to the mysterious artificial world of Ecos, Earth man Alexander Ashton struggles to understand the society of his new friends the Amatharians. As he does so, he finds himself falling in love with their princess and being thrust into a millennium-long war with their mortal foes the reptilian Zoasians. Princess of Amathar is a sword-swinging novel of high adventure, in the spirit of Edgar Rice Burroughs, spanning a world filled with fantastic alien civilizations, strange creatures, and bold heroes.

Tesla’s Stepdaughters : $4.99 in Paperback

Tesla's StepdaughtersTesla’s Stepdaughters

by Wesley Allison

Price: $4.99
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In a world where men are almost extinct, someone is trying to kill history’s greatest rock & roll band. Science Police Agent John Andrews must negotiate a complicated relationship with Ep!phanee, the band’s lead singer; drummer Ruth De Molay, bassist Steffie Sin, and the redheaded clone lead guitarist Penny Dreadful, as he protects them and tries to discover who wants to kill the Ladybugs.

Astrid Maxxim and her Amazing Hoverbike: $5.99 in Paperback

Astrid Maxxim and her Amazing HoverbikeAstrid Maxxim and her Amazing Hoverbike
By Wesley Allison
Paperback: $5.99
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From the 180,000 acre campus of Maxxim Industries, fourteen year old girl genius and inventor Astrid Maxxim works alongside her father, Dr. Roger Maxxim, on projects to make the world a better place. Her latest invention is a flying scooter—the hoverbike. Is it the target of an international spy ring, or are they after secret Project RG-7, or Astrid herself? Astrid has something bigger on her mind though—high school. There’s a field trip coming, and the Spring Fling is right around the corner… And does Toby like her as much as she likes him?

Women of Power : $4.99 in Paperback

Women of Power NewPrice: $4.99
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The life of a superhero is tough. All American Girl fights supervillains, alien invaders, and terrorists as she tries to get product endorsements and a magazine deal. That’s nothing compared to her private life though. She’s only just broken up with her super boyfriend Perihelion when he’s scooped up by Omega Woman, and now rival Skygirl has moved into her territory.

Follow this link to purchase Women of Power in paperback.

His Robot Girlfriend: $4.99 in Paperback

His Robot GirlfriendPrice: $4.99
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Mike Smith’s life was crap, living all alone,
years after his wife had died and his children
had grown up and moved away. Then he
saw the commercial for the Daffodil. Far
more than other robots, the Daffodil could
become anything and everything he wanted
it to be. Mike’s life is about to change.

His Robot Wife: $4.99 in Paperback

His Robot WifePrice: $4.99
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In His Robot Wife, the novella-length sequel to His Robot Girlfriend, it is the year 2037 and Mike has been married to his robot wife, Patience, for five years. Troubles are on the horizon though. Prop 22 promises to annul marriages between humans and robots. And Patience hasn’t quite been herself. Is there something wrong, or does she just need a software upgrade?

Follow this link to purchase His Robot Wife in paperback.

Blood Trade : $5.99 in Paperback

Blood TradePrice: $5.99

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Vegas is going to hell– literally. Werewolves run through the streets and the vampires are taking over. Former army ranger/Goth tattoo model/private eye Xochitl McKenna doesn’t like it either, especially when it comes between her and her clients. But are the vampires and werewolves the greatest threat, or is it something or someone much closer to her? Warning: Adult Content.

The Voyage of the Minotaur: Now at Txtr

Voyage of the Minotaur (New Cover)Txtr.com is a new open source for ebooks.  At Txtr, you can:

Choice: Select from over one million ebooks in our store.
Space: Create your own unlimited cloud library.
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Compatibility: Side-load to e-readers from our PC or Mac app.

The Voyage of the Minotaur is the first book by Wesley Allison available at Txtr.

It’s been three years since the Kingdom of Greater Brechalon, with the help of Zurfina the Magnificent, defeated their hereditary enemies, the Freedonians. The world has changed. Port Dechantagne, once a distant outpost of civilization, has grown to be a large city, the center of prosperous Birmisia Colony. Steam-powered carriages share the streets with triceratops-pulled trolleys, fine ladies in their most fashionable bustle dresses lead their lizardmen servants through the shopping districts, and an endless stream of immigrants pours into the region.

The young ladies of the colony are busy with fashion, coming out parties, and securing partners among the smaller male population. Eleven-year-old Iolana Staff, daughter of the colonial governor, has more important things on her mind—the mysterious machine known as the Result Mechanism, and her relationship to the machine’s creator.

Meanwhile, sorceress Senta Bly returns from the continent with a new male companion, an illegitimate daughter, and a long lost brother. Hated and feared for her magic, she must face wizards, assassins, and an old enemy from another reality.

The Sorceress and her Lovers continues the story of Senta and the Steel Dragon, taking up where The Two Dragons left off. It is a story of magic and power, fear and revenge, and love.

Backing Up

I am pretty obsessive about backing up my work on the computer.  My Mac makes that easy because it backs up every hour to an external backup drive.  Now that I’m using Pages as my main writing tool, I also back up to iCloud.  I have a USB stick that I used to carry work in progress now, but now it’s just another backup.  Of course the USB stick is backed up to the external hard drive too.  And I’ve written a script that backs up my iCloud work (which is automatically backed up on my iMac and my Macbook) to Dropbox. Today I went out and bought a backup drive just for my Macbook.  It’s a cute little half-terrabyte drive.  By my count, that’s nine copies of my files.  Yep, I’m pretty obsessive about it.  Oh, I forgot.  I also have them on my iPhone and iPad and I back up both of those regularly!

I also like my computer running at peak condition too, so even though the Mac almost never gets a virus ( I have found 1 trojan downloader in the year I’ve had it) I run Kaspersky on it.

Speaking of backup drives… As I mentioned, I bought a WD 500gb drive today at Best Buy for $59.00.  I think back to the first hard drive I ever bought– for my Amiga about 1985.  It was $749.00 and it was twice as big as any my friends had, a whopping 40mb.  That’s right megabytes.  Not terabytes.  Not gigabytes.  Megabytes.  So, how come I don’t have my robot and my flying car yet?