Saturday, January 24, 2015

Time for an Update!

OK, it's finally time for an update!

The Girl From the El Dorado Star System, Volume One: Encounter at Terra Arcadia, is now available here: https://www.createspace.com/5212284. 434 pages, approx. 160,000 words. Volume One contains Book One: The Man Who Had to Die, and Book Two: The Girl With a Mission. Both of those books will be published separately in the near future. This volume will be available at Amazon in the near future. Kindle and Smashwords versions will also be available in the next couple of months.

Volume Two: Convergence at Calaverras, is about half way complete. Book One of Volume Two, The Reluctant Investigator, is in the Beta read phase now, and is over 100,000 words. Book Two of Volume Two, The Man Who Stood Defiant, is in the writing phase.

A prequel is in the works. The Voyage of the Space Vessel Nimbus Star, Volume One: Once Upon a Caravel.

And a follow-up on the military sci fi plot line is also planned: Truman's War.

peace, J

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Volume One, Book Two Table of Contents

Table of contents for The Girl From the El Dorado Star System, Volume One: Encounter at Terra Arcadia, Book Two: The Girl Who Had a Mission.

Look for it print here and here. The Girl Who Had a Mission is not yet in Kindle, but is coming soon!

Book Two: The Girl Who Had a Mission


Prolog: The Story Thus Far       
Chapter Nineteen: Reticulated Memories      
Chapter Twenty: Once Upon a Caravel     
Chapter Twenty-one: Responsibilities     
Chapter Twenty-two: Relieved and Dismissed     
Chapter Twenty-three: The Girl Who Had a Mission     
Chapter Twenty-four: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing     
Chapter Twenty-five: Homo Sapiens Furiosa     
Chapter Twenty-six: Warping the Lyt Fantastic     
Chapter Twenty-seven: Curiouser and Curiouser     
Chapter Twenty-eight: Camp Andrew     
Chapter Twenty-nine: Insanity, Thy Name Is Mother     
Chapter Thirty: The Girl on the Monocycle   
Chapter Thirty-one: Reconsider...Not   
Chapter Thirty-two: Sparrow on the Wing   
Chapter Thirty-three: You Can Run, But You Cannot Hide   
Chapter Thirty-four: High Caliber Performance   
Chapter Thirty-five: A Little Denial, a Little Defiance   
Chapter Thirty-six: Ky serai, serai   
Chapter Thirty-seven: Solitaire Revelation   
Chapter Thirty-eight: The Next Available Cruise Ship   
Chapter Thirty-nine: Crossing the Bereg   
Chapter Forty: Mind Control Lyt   
Chapter Forty-one: Just You, Just Me   
Chapter Forty-two: The Girl Who Was Found   
Chapter Forty-three: Nightmare   
Appendix One: Timeline   
Appendix Two: Abbreviations and Acronyms   
Appendix Three: Glossary   
Coming Up in Book Three...   
About the Author   
About the Story   

peace, J

Publishing Update

The Girl From the El Dorado Star System, Volume One: Encounter at Terra Arcadia, Book One: The Man Who Had to Die, 2nd edition, is now available in print at CreateSpace, and is available in print and in Kindle at Amazon. Book Two of Volume One, The Girl Who Had a Mission, is also available in print and is being reviewed for Kindle. The links for these are below.

Book One, 2nd edition has a new cover, corrected title information, an additional 4000 words of text (making a total of over 63,000 words), is 172 pages long, and has (realistically) most (hopefully all) the small errors corrected. Book Two is 246 pages and nearly 91,000 words long. [Making Volume One about 154,000 words long so far.] 





The books may be found in print at Amazon, here:

Book One: The Man Who Had to Die  (2nd edition) and here:  Book Two: The Girl Who Had a Mission.

Or at CreateSpace, here:  Book One (2nd edition) and here:  Book Two.

The Kindle version Book One, 2nd edition, may be found here: Book One.

I have discontinued the Kindle version of Book One, 1st edition.


peace, J.


Sunday, August 3, 2014

Featured Author on Fantastical Reads

Hi all!

Just received word that I am a featured indie author at Fantastical Reads. Catch the profile here: http://fantasticalreads.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/featured-author-j-allen-wilder/.

It has links back to this blog, Smashwords, and CreateSpace.

One word about my Smashwords edition of The Girl From the El Dorado Star System, Book One. I'm having major trouble getting an edited version on Smashwords due to difficulties with e-formatting. I haven't given up on this, but it's going to take some time.

Meanwhile, check out the print edition at CreateSpace or Amazon. Book Two is still nearing completion. I expect Book Two to run from Chapter Nineteen through Chapter Fifty-three. That will complete Volume One: Encounter at Terra Arcadia.

Volume 2: Meeting at Calaverras, is going to follow in a few months.

peace, J

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Book One is Now in Kindle! And Hello Turkey!

The Girl From the El Dorado Star System, Book One: The Man Who Had to Die is now available in Kindle.  You may find it here at Amazon:

Kindle version of The Girl From the El Dorado Star System, Book 1

The Kindle version is $3.99.

Also, I've noticed that this past week the second largest group of viewers of this blog happen to be in Turkey for some reason. Maybe off-beat indie science fiction appeals to people in Turkey? Thanks for the views, and best wishes to readers in Turkey.

The first largest group of readers is in the United States. The third largest group is in Poland! Hello Poland!

peace, J

Saturday, July 26, 2014

The Girl From the El Dorado Star System, Book One, Coming to Kindle

Good news! The Girl From the El Dorado Star System, Book One: The Man Who Had to Die is coming to Kindle. It is in the review process now.

In the meantime, you may find it here at CreateSpace: https://tsw.createspace.com/title/4907177...

and here at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Girl-El-Dorado-Star-System/dp/1500541907/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406384735&sr=1-1&keywords=J.+Allen+Wilder

Tom Aster doesn't know what he's getting into. He saw himself as a born loser. Then he just bumped into the most incredible girl. She proposed. He accepted. They plan to elope to the El Dorado star system and get married. But he doesn't know she's an agent for a covert government agency of the most powerful star nation in the galaxy. He doesn't know she's a little more than human. And he doesn't know she's stalking the most dangerous prey in the galaxy, a madman with superhuman abilities and no conscience who could easily kill him. 

At times politically incorrect, satirical, quirky, sexy, dramatic, romantic, and humorous, The Girl From the El Dorado Star System is a science-fiction/future punk story about ordinary people (and some not-so-ordinary people) who are drawn together by events, chance, and circumstance, or perhaps by the Will of God, into a fateful rendezvous in the distant future. In the process unlikely relationships form, comic situations unfold with serious consequences, and lost souls find a path leading to redemption and new life.


The Man Who Had to Die is the first book of a multi-book novel. 18 chapters, 172 pages, with appendices for a timeline, list of abbreviations, and short glossary of some of the terms used in the story.

And, btw, the print and Kindle editions have a different cover from the Smashwords edition:



peace, J

Friday, July 25, 2014

Published Book One in Print

The Girl From the El Dorado Star System, Book One: The Man Who Had to Die is now available in print at the CreateSpace e-store. This is an edited version of the copy at Smashwords. Typos are corrected, and some of the content has been rewritten. Also, there are three appendices for an explanation of abbreviations used in the book, a timeline, and a short glossary. Notice that the timeline is actually missing a couple of dates! This is intentional. To put everything on the timeline in Book One would be to give away spoilers for the upcoming books. The print edition will also be available through Amazon.com in about 3-5 business days. It is not yet available on Kindle.

Book Two is still in the writing stage, though I'd say it's about 90% complete.

Book Three has been started, but has a long way to go.

Book Four is in my head.

I have to recommend CreateSpace for any indie writer looking to publish in print. There may be others who do this (Lulu.com), but this was a relatively pain-free process. They have a limited number of cover designs available, though, and this is one drawback to using CreateSpace, but if you have your own ready to print cover handy (I did not), then you're in good shape.

Look for The Girl From the El Dorado Star System, Book One in print at CreateSpace here:

https://www.createspace.com/4907177

Also, for anyone who wants to use CreateSpace to publish their work in print, you can start here:

https://www.createspace.com/

Also, I will have the edition on Smashwords updated soon so its many little typos will be gone and its content will match the content of the print edition.

peace, J