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I spurred Hysteria forward, though truth be told
I did not spur her precisely because I do not wear spurs.  Spurs seem unnecessarily mean and pointed and Hysteria is possessed of something of a fragile ego.  If one speaks harshly too her, she is likely
to go into a mope for weeks on end and jabbing her haunches or belly with pointy metal objects could send her into a serious downward spiral of depression.  It would be a sad thing to see.  So I encouraged her forward.  I urged her forward.  I coaxed her forward.  I asked her to go forward and she went forward, which now that I think about it, is the direction that she is usually most likely to go.

Hysteria, as a name for a warhorse, just came to me.  I just love it.  Hysteria is of course not something you generally want your horse to have, but there’s more to it of course than that.  The word hysteria, is such a gender biased word, hysteria being a supposed female weakness, hence its connection with hysterectomy.  I haven’t named any other horses in the series, at least until book 4, Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Amazons, in which there is a horse named Susan.

Eaglethorpe Buxton Bits

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“All the country knows the name of Eaglethorpe Buxton and it knows that he is not one to harm children or ladies, nor old people or the infirm.  Rather he is a friend to those who are in need of a friend and a protector to those who are in need of a protector and a guardian to those who are in need of a guardian.”

“So long as it is not a pie that needs guarding,” said he.

Unlike my other stories, I don’t plot Eaglethorpe Buxton.  I just let it go.  Some may think that’s obvious.  So, I never expected as I was first writing the story that pie would play such a huge part, but after the first story, there just had to be pie in all the others.

Eaglethorpe Buxton Bits

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I should stop and introduce myself.  I am Eaglethorpe Buxton, famed world traveler
and story-teller.  Of course you have heard of me, for my tales of the great heroes and their adventures have been repeated far and wide across the land. 
Yes, I am sad to say that many of my stories have been told without the benefit of my name being attached to them.  This is unfortunate as my appellation, which is to say the name of
Buxton and of Eaglethorpe would add a certain something to the verisimilitude of a story, which is to say the truthfulness or the believability of the
story.  But such is the jealousy of other
story-tellers that they cannot bear to have my name overshadow theirs.  In truth I am probably better known in any case as an adventurer in my own right than as a teller of the adventures of others.  But in any case, there was a pie.

I started writing Eaglethorpe Buxton in early 2009 just as a bit of fun.  I wanted a story with an unreliable narrator, set in a fantasy world, but I wasn’t to worried that the world be believable or even make sense.  I used the world that my kids and I had created to play D&D in, but played pretty fast and loose with the geography.

Still More Eaglethorpe Preview

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The final part of The Many Adventures of Eaglethorpe Buxton is Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Day of the Night of the Werewolf.  Here is the interior cover art for it.

This image, like those of the first two books, is a combination of character art by Sade and a background image, the rights to which were purchased from Dreamstime.com.

This book will mark the natural conclusion of Eaglethorpe’s series.  That is not to say that other stories might not come along in the future.

More Eaglethorpe Update

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Yesterday I showed you the interior front art for Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Queen of Aerithraine, and today we have the interior front art for Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Amazons.  Again, this image is by RPG art supplier Sade.

I have noticed that the more I write Eaglethorpe, the dumber I tend to make him.  That is one of the things I am correcting as I revise (or at least am trying to correct).  In the final book of the collection, Eaglethorpe must rise to his greatest.  Tomorrow, I’ll show you the interior art for that one.

Eaglethorpe Update

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Here’s a look at the interior chapter front page for Eaglethorpe Buxton and the QUeen of Aerithraine.  The graphic is by Sade, a rpg art company who also provided the elven princess and sorceress on the covers of the first two Eaglethorpe Buxton books.

Since I had covers for those two books, I decided that I would use them for interior covers and that I would add one for each of the additional books.

The draft of Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Amazons is done, but I’m going back through the first three books to make sure that they line up as far as tone and language.  I think Amazons will have to have a lot more Eaglethorpe added to it.

An Anniversary

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I had an anniversary that I forgot all about.  Last month marked four years of daily blogging for me.  I have thought recently about cutting back on the number of blog entries until my next book was finished, but now I feel like “hey, I’ve done it for four years.  Why would I stop now?”

It really doesn’t hamper my writing to post a few blogs.  In fact, as I write this, I am letting my brain rest as I work my way through the next to last chapter of Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Amazons.  Okay, now back to work.

Update: Eaglethorpe Buxton

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I’m just finishing the draft of Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Amazons, which is the fourth story in The Many Adventures of Eaglethorpe Buxton.  I’m pretty happy with the story, but I have to punch up the comedy a bit in the revision.

As soon as I’m done with the revision, I’ll be ready to jump into the fifth and final story.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll post some bits of the original two stories (which will be parts one and two of The Many Adventures of Eaglethorpe Buxton).

We are facing big budget cuts at school, as are schools all across the country, resulting in class size increases and a shift in schedules.  One of the results is that now I’m in charge of the school yearbook.  As this is likely going to dig into my writing time, I’m determined to see that Eaglethorpe makes some kind of appearance in the yearbook.  🙂

 

Previews: Part 2

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Eaglethorpe Buxton, famed adventurer, story-teller, and liar is back.  Eaglethorpe does what he does best: take an uninteresting story and exagerate it until it’s just as uninteresting but in a whole new way.  The Many Adventures of Eaglethorpe Buxton combines the two previous Eaglethorpe Buxton adventures with three all new tales.

The Many Adventures of Eaglethorpe Buxton will likely be my next book published.  It contains five parts.

Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess– previously published.

Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress– previously published.

Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Queen of Aerithraine– finished and edited.  I’m really, really pleased with this story.  It features the Queen of Aerithraine, with whom Eaglethorpe once had the pleasure of spending a fortnight; the revelation of the mystery of Ellwood Cyrene, the revelation of what really happened to Eaglethorpe’s family, zombies and many, many pies.

Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Amazons– I’m just finishing it up.

Eaglehtorpe Buxton and the Day of the Night of the Werewolf– plotted and ready to go.

As these books are short, they usually only take me about a month to write, so I am hopeful that this volume should ber ready by election day (which is November 6th for all of you outside the US).  I’ve noted that the world falls into two camps– those who love Eaglethorpe and those who hate him.  Neither camp, hopefully, will have long to wait.

 

Motivations: Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress

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I don’t know what happened to my original post, but here it is basically.

I had finished Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess and had a lot of fun writing it.  I decided a second Eaglethorpe book was in order.  A few years ealier, I had written a little play, which was performed by the Brown Junior High Drama Club to great success, and I decided that this play had been written by Eaglethorpe.  The play involves characters from his world– specifically the parents of the Queen of Aerithraine, so it fit.

I was watching lots of Shakespeare at the time and you will see a lot of not so subtle nods to the Bard.  The third part of Eaglethorpe (which is coming in The Many Adventures of Eaglethorpe Buxton) is really a continuation of the story in Sorceress.