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Motivations: Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess

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It was 2009 and His Robot Girlfriend was being dowloaded by the tens of thousands.  I had just finished editing The Voyage of the Minotaur and was entering it into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest.  (It made it to round two.)  So what to write next?

I wanted to do something short and fun and I decided on a fantasy comedy.  I had read an enjoyed Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events, particularly the character of Lemony Snicket who is narrator and somehow involved with the characters and frequently hints at things outsidet the story.  I decided that my hero would be a story-teller who changed the story to suit himself.  Eaglethorpe Buxton was born.

I set the story in (sort of) the world I had created for my D&D campaign.  My kids still have fond memories of some of the settings in which the stories take place and even met some of the characters when they played– notably Queen Elleena of Aerithraine.  I had a lot of fun writing EBEP and many people have written to tell me that they like him.  I’ve heard a few negative comments too, but that’s okay.

Update: Eaglethorpe Buxton

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The third Eaglethore Buxton story, Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Queen of Aerithraine, is complete and I’m playing around with the next one.  I find myself thinking about Eaglethorpe going a lot of possible directions.  I’ve already shelved one possible story– Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Unicorn Hunters, though I might play with that as a story within a story.

There will be five stories in the Eaglethorpe Buxton book and right now they look like these are going to be the five: Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess, Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress, Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Queen of Aerithraine, Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Amazons, and Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Day of the Night of the Werewolf.

Stay tuned for more info.  I definitely plan to have this book done before the end of the year.

Update – Eaglethorpe Buxton

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I am more than halfway through the first of three new stories for Eaglethorpe Buxton– Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Queen of Aerithraine.  If you have read the two previous EB stories, then you know that the Queen of Aerithraine is an important element in the stories and consequently this story marks an important point in Eaglethorpe’s life.

I’ll probably finish this one story before I go back to Kanana the Jungle Girl.  I plan on finishing both stories, along with Astrid Maxxim 2 before the summer is done though.

Free Distribution

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The other day I posted my total book sales.  Moe the Cat, friend of this blog, wondered how many free books had been distributed, so I thought I would look that up and post it.  Here we go:

His Robot Girlfriend                                              377,035 downloads
Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess            93,959 downloads
Eaglethorpe Buston and the Sorceress                     78,799 downloads

There have been a handful of paperbacks sold of each of these books, and there have been a few giveaways of other books, but that is pretty much it.  Sometimes I really wish I had 30 cents for each copy of His Robot Girlfriend, but I know it wouldn’t have been downloaded so many times if I charged for it, and it has done its job of bringing me new readers.  I have plans for a couple of other free books, one of which should be available this year.

Princess Jholiera

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The elven princess in Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess is not a particularly inspired character.  She’s a stock elf and a stock princess, though I flatter myself that I gave her a bit of personality.  She has to have some to deal with Eaglethorpe in their day to day dealings.  She’s his foil, his sounding-board, and at one point (SPOILER) his foe.  I tried to weave a little Shakespeare into the tale (something I did much more blatantly in the second EB story) by making her take up the disguise of a boy.

One thing that I notice of course, is that people either hate or love Eaglethorpe Buxton, but it’s usually him and not his world or the other characters that brings out this diverse reaction.  I would love for someone to write me and tell me what they think of Jholiera.  Incidently I just randomly threw together some sounds to make an elven name.

Ellwood Cyrene

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Ellwood Cyrene is Eaglethorpe Buxton’s best friend.  He is more or less right out of my old D&D campaign.  He is rather overaffectionate  toward Eaglethorpe, and the latter constantly has to remind himself of how manly they both are.

Spoiler Alert

In Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress, we find out Ellwood’s Secret (one of them).  He is really a she.  What that means for their friendship and what other secrets he/she may have, are forthcoming in a future volume.  Hint: Ellwood’s name gives a bit of it away.

Hysteria

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Hysteria is Eaglethorpe Buxton’s horse.  I don’t know how I came up with the name, I just remember giggling as I wrote it.  It probably goes back to the evocative names in “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” an awesomely funny play in which the Romans all have names like Lascivious and Stupendous.  Of course, Hysteria is such a great name, because it tells us that she isn’t the steady warhorse a real hero should have.  Also hysteria is such a great word, full of meaning and rife with sexism.

Eaglethorpe Buxton

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I don’t know where the idea came from to write an Eaglethorpe Buxton story, but he does owe a lot to several other authors and stores.  His origin as a medieval story-teller comes right out of D&D and in fact the world in which he lives (including the Queen of Aerithraine) is from the D&D campaign I started as a young man and continued right up until my kids and I used to play.

Eaglethorpe’s line “The Queen of Aerithraine, with whom I once had the pleasure to spend a fortnight” is pretty much stolen inspired by Baron Munchausen, and his line about Catherine the Great.  He also has a bit of Lemony Snicket in him (great books, A Series of Unfortunate Events).  I have always loved unreliable narrators and I tried to make Eaglethorpe one.  Of course, he is a bit more than unreliable.  He’s a complete liar.

In order to make the plot work, Eaglethorpe had to be a bit heroic.  He knows how to handle himself with a sword.  He can kick the crap out of goblins.  But he’s not the hero he thinks he is.

New Reviews of Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess

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These two reviews were recently posted at Smashwords.

Review by: Nick Angelis : starstarstarstarstar
Finally! I was starting to get worried after I published an ebook with the tag “comedy” and couldn’t find many books in that category worth a chuckle. It was starting to inflate my ego about the ridiculousness I had written until Mr. Allison gently deflated it with this hilarious tale. I chortled, chuckled, and even cackled a few times while reading this book and recommend it unreservedly. That said, I’m off to procure some delicious pies of my own…

Review by: Alan Face : starstarstarstarstar
What a delightful tale! Wesley Allison, author of “His Robot Girlfriend” and the sequel, “His Robot Wife,” has done it again. His characters and style of writing about them in this story reminds me a bit of Mark Twain. He caught and kept my attention from beginning to end and had me chuckling constantly.
Two thumbs up for this one!
Thanks to both of you gentlemen for your kind words.  For those interested, I do have big plans in the works for Eaglethorpe.  There will be a new tale by the great storyteller (liar) or THREE coming soon– hopefully this summer.

Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess tops 50,000 Downloads

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Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess has surpassed 50,000 downloads.  It’s available wherever fine ebooks are found and it’s absolutely free.