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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?
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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.
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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.
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?
The Sorceress and her Lovers (Senta and the Steel Dragon book 6) is available at Barnes and Noble for the nook platform for $2.99. Find it at this link. The Voyage of the Minotaur (Senta and the Steel Dragon book 1) has been reduced in price at Barnes and Noble to 99 cents. So now is a great time to start the series.
In a world of steam power and rifles, where magic has not yet been forgotten, an expedition sets out to found a colony in a lost world. The Voyage of the Minotaur is a story of adventure and magic, religion and prejudice, steam engines and dinosaurs, angels and lizardmen, machine guns and wizards, sorceresses, bustles and corsets, steam-powered computers, hot air balloons, and dragons.
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.
Last night was the school awards ceremony. It is the signal that the school year is really just about over. One more full day (today) and then three half-days for exams and one day without students. Then I’m a professional writer for the next three months. I’ve actually been writing a lot over the past week. It’s giving me grandiose ideas about how much I can get done. I’d really like to finish three books this summer, and then maybe one more in the fall.
One book I will definitely get done is Astrid Maxxim and the Antarctic Expedition. I’ve worked on it five days and am already 25% done. I’ll probably work on that while I’m at Comicon. Then it’s time to complete 82 Eridani: Journey. I may also work on Kanana: The Jungle Girl, which I had basically given up on, but I’ve written a few pages in the past week. I can knock out Love and the Darkness pretty quick, as it’s a little novelette (like Astrid Maxxim). Finally, many are waiting for A Great Deal of Patience. I’ve been working on the outline for that book. If I was a real professional, I’d drop everything and work on it, as the Robot Wife books are the only ones that sell appreciably. But I write what I like. So there you go.
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.
The Sorceress and her Lovers is available at Amazon for the Kindle for $2.99. Follow this link.
Smashwords has just announced a deal with Overdrive, the largest distributor of ebooks to libraries around the United States. That means that all of my books will soon be available at your local library. In addition, many of my ebooks– His Robot Girlfriend, His Robot Wife, Tesla’s Stepdaughters, Women of Power, The Voyage of the Minotaur, and others– are available free to libraries. So if you are a library ebook user, ask your local library to get my books from Overdrive.
For a writer, at least this one, my main tool is my computer and word processing program. I’ve written all my books up until this point on Microsoft Word. When I got my iMac a little over a year ago, I got Microsoft Office and kept right on writing. I was able to get a great price on it as a teacher– one of those few perks.
Since I bought my macbook (and I’ve already written two chapter using it), I tried to get Office at the same price and found out they would only let me have one. I looked into getting Office 365. With it, I would get new versions of Word, and be able to use the new Office for iPad and iPhone. At $100 bucks, I could install it on up to 5 computers– so my son and wife could use it too. Neither of them are really interested. Plus, I found out that I would not get a new version of Office, but the same old Office 2011 that I already have on my desktop.
So, I decided to go with Pages, Apples Word alternative. I already have it on both computers and both my iPad and iPhone. It automatically saves to the cloud so I can switch between them. I can even use Pages for iCloud if I’m on a PC. Of course, it’s different, so it’s taking me a bit to get used to it. I also need a .doc file to convert to ebook, but Pages does that.
I guess I am now officially converted to an Apple Fan-boy, since I have the entire line of iProducts and am using the software too. The proof will be in the pudding though. Can I get an entire book written using these new tools. I think I can.
Chief Inspector Saba Colbshallow sat down for breakfast. He looked first to his left at his mother and then to his right at his daughter.
“And where’s the lady of the house?” he asked.
“Mummy says she doesn’t feel good,” said DeeDee. “She’s going to stay in bed today.”
Saba clucked his teeth in annoyance as Risty scooped scrambled eggs with diced peppers and onions onto his plate next to the sausages.
“I’m sure she has a good reason,” offered his mother.
“I’m sure.”
“She’s been having a rough time lately.”
“No doubt.”
“I don’t like onions in my eggs,” said DeeDee.
“Yes you do,” said her father. “Look at me. I’m eating them. Eat some and then Risty will get you a crumpet.”
“Maybe she’s out of sorts because she’s expecting,” said Mrs. Colbshallow.
“And here I thought Kafira was the only Immaculate Conception,” he muttered. He took another bite and ignored his mother’s scandalized look.
The only other bit of breakfast conversation was when DeeDee demanded strawberry jam with her crumpet. When they were done, Saba helped his daughter fasten on her shoes and then her bonnet.
“Come along girl. Your tutor is awaiting.”
“Maybe you should go up and kiss your wife goodbye,” said his mother.
“I’m sure she’s very busy with the second coming and all,” he said, and guided DeeDee out the front door.
They walked across the street to the Dechantagne Staff estate, where the lizzie doorman let them enter. Mrs. Dechantagne was alone in the parlor.
“Hello Saba,” she said, getting to her feet.
“Please don’t get up, Mrs. D.”
“Oh please don’t call me that.” She sat the book that she had been reading down and stepped over to him. “You’ve known me all your life, we lived in the same house for years, and don’t forget you were my husband’s best man at my wedding.”
“I was just a witness, and I haven’t forgotten a single moment.”
“You’re so sweet,” she smiled. “What can I do for you today.”
“DeeDee’s going to start on with Iolana.”
“You’re early. They usually don’t start until 11:00.”
“Yes, well I was wondering if I could leave her early. Her mother’s not feeling well.”
“Of course. I’ll take her upstairs and she can play with Terra. That girl could use some human companionship.”
“If you’re sure it’s not an inconvenience…”
“None at all. But you have to do me a favor first.”
“What?” he asked.
“You must address me properly.”
“As you wish… Yuah.” He blushed furiously.
“See that didn’t hurt,” she said as she took DeeDee’s hand.
“Be a good girl,” Saba told his daughter.
“I will.”
City of Amathar 