Allan Joyal: Blog

As part of the search for cash I have been beating the internet looking for job interviews in my mundane and boring career. Today turned into 3 hours of skype interviews.

I think my brain melted during them.

But I shall soldier on and write later today. Thank goodness yesterday was a "bonus bug" type day where I managed over 7000 words. I can have a bad day today and still keep up with my goals for the current crisis.

I've been mostly working on a couple other stories, but I managed to add another chapter to Woman Warrior, so I've posted chapter 8 for everyone's enjoyment.

If you want to find out more I do have a Patreon account (I know, curses be on the moderators there, but it does have some uses.) The account is under my pen name Allan Joyal. I recently posted the first 2 chapters of what will be my next book on Amazon. The title is a bit in flux. I'm debating either "From Classroom 2b to King" or just "To Be or Not To Be, the King". Its a bit hard to decide. Those 2 chapters are a public offering, you don't have to support me to read them.

I may post the first chapter of a Swarm Cycle story that is somewhat parallel to Woman Warrior. It covers the same ride to the Borneo District, but from the viewpoint of a different citizen and their as usual non-standard household. That would require patronage to read.

And do keep up your comments in support. I don't manage to reply to everyone, but I do appreciate all the support.

More soon. :)

Well, like millions of others over the past 4 months or so, my former employer has had to slash its work force considerably and I ended up becoming one of the casualties.

I've often said that I want to make writing full time more than just something I talk about, and since I got my pink slip I've been trying to write 3000 or more words every day. Of course, the vast majority of this has been stories that I can provide to Amazon for sale. Unfortunately the Swarm Cycle tales violate Amazon's policy regarding the minimum age for certain adult activities and while I could edit them for publication, I've decided to keep them free and post them here.

I did add another chapter of A Woman Warrior, today. I won't promise to continue, but I have some partially done stories in addition to A Woman Warrior and as I find that I can continue to hit word counts daily, I'll try to give some time to entertaining you here as well.

This might all end next week if a company hires me, but honestly, the job market isn't all that good so who knows when my next interview will be.

I just saw a sketch of the cover. This was a black and white proof and it was amazing. I am very happy with how it turned out. The editing process is well along and I can now promise that Seafaring on Jord will come out sometime in December.

A Living Dungeon's Madness is also getting close. I broke the 88,000 word mark today and really just have a few remaining scenes, although as this is the climax they might take some time to write out, but my progress the last few days has been solid. Hopefully we are looking no later than early January, although I might just wait that long so I don't flood the market with 2 new books right on top of each other.

I've said I've cut back quite a bit on writing Swarm Cycle stories. This is very true. While they are fun to write, I am heading more to writing for sale and the stories I output in the Swarm cycle universe are ineligible by Amazon rules for publication via their website.

That said, I know people enjoy my tales, so since I"m trying to write more I'm considering posting again, but it most likely would be 1 chapter every 10-14 days, as I'd be concentrating on other stories and only writing a chapter when I have time.

Are people interested in that at this time?