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About Bill D. Allen
Bill D. Allen is an Oklahoma born and bred, Red-Dirt writer. He writes fantasy and science fiction when he isn't riding motorcycles.
His science fiction book Pirates of the Outrigger Rift (with co-author Gary Jonas) is the first book in the "Outyonder" universe, populated with wild adventurers and power hungry robber barons. The sequel, Free Trader's Fortune follows up on the continuing adventures of Hank Jensen, a hard-drinking, fun-loving rogue trader.
The adventures of Carl, the Reluctant War God are told in the books Duty Calls and War God Blues.
His website is http://billdallen.com. Sign up for his preferred reader's group and enjoy a free book.
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Blog postHello everyone!
Gary Jonas and I have a new story out from the good folks at Hex Publishing. It is free and available online at Hex’s WORDS zine.
The story is called “Necrocyte” and it is a prequel to the novel Pirates of the Outrigger Rift. It’s about Sai, our gifted cyber thief.
The link is here: READ “NECROCYTE”
While you are there check out the other stories and wide variety of publications available from Hex.
A shout out to Josh Vio5 years ago Read more -
Blog postMerry Christmas! Happy Holidays! and oh crap, it’s winter!
Just a heads up as to what is happening this month.
War God Blues, sequel to Duty Calls is available for pre-order at the discounted price of 99 cents. It will be released on December 29 for Kindle.
This is a limited time offer. It will be going up to the regular price of $3.99 on December 30th, so act now.
In addition, there will be a 5.5 x 8.5 inch trade paperback version and an “old school” mass mark6 years ago Read more -
Blog postWe had a great, if not so well attended panel at Libcon here in Tulsa yesterday. It was on the basic 101 of Epublishing.
We started drifting into the royalty rates for self-publishing your work on Amazon and other e-book outlets. We were able to share that at price points over $2.99 you could get up to 70% royalty on every ebook sale with Amazon.com. The discussion drifted into royalties on more traditional publishing venues and honestly, it had been so long I really didn’t even remem6 years ago Read more -
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Blog postHey guys!
Just wanted to let you know a couple things.
#1 – Duty Calls:The Reluctant War God Book 1 is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com for Kindle. It lists for $2.99 and is available free if you participate in Kindle Unlimited. (I get paid for pages read under that program.) Pre-Order it HERE
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The Kindle version will be released on September 1. On that date, I will also release the mass market paperback version.6 years ago Read more -
Blog postY’all are going to think I am crazy….crazier, that is.
I stumbled upon the original Mike Hammer TV show from circa 1957. The Mickey Spillane tough guy is played by done other that…DARREN MCGAVIN! Yep, same dude who play Kolchak the Night Stalker and the grumbly dad in Christmas Story.
And guess what? He ROCKS it.
More of you are likely family with the Stacy Keach version of Hammer from the 1980’s. I liked that show quite a bit. But McGavin is actually my favorite Hamme6 years ago Read more -
Blog postIf you are a writer, listen up. This clip from a mid-80’s lecture given by late Oklahoma Writer Mike McQuay is excellent. We lost Mike far too early. It is about 9 minutes long and full of wisdom. https://soundcloud.com/billy-dee-allen/mcquay-circa1985 Bill … Continue reading →6 years ago Read more
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Blog postI recently completed Duty Calls: The Reluctant War God Book 1, and I am heavily involved in the writing of the second book, War God Blues.
I plan on releasing Duty Calls when the first draft on War God Blues is completed. At that time I would like to quote a few reviews and hopefully have a few folks who liked the book get on Amazon and quickly add some online reviews to help promote the book.
To this end, I am offering PDF format ARC’s (Advance Review Copies) of Duty Calls. <6 years ago Read more -
Blog postThis is a post convention report, as I didn’t list on my blog that I was going to this one….I really need to do a better job of that in the future.
Glitchcon 2014 was held in Springdale, AR from August 1st to 3rd. I was invited last year and it was truly abysmal from the writing perspective. However, I spoke to some very nice people and met a few that I feel will likely be friends for life. So, when invited this year, I had some apprehension, but since I wanted to change up my surroun8 years ago Read more -
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Blog postSoonercon 2014 is next weekend in my old stomping grounds, Oklahoma City! Gary Jonas and I will both be appearing so this is your chance to get your copies of Pirates of the Outrigger Rift signed by both of us. (I really need to send Chris McGrath, the cover artist, a copy to keep and a copy to sign and send back so that we will have the trifecta.)
Your official link to these panels and more can be found on Soonercon’s very awesome site: http://soonercon.com/panels
Here are th8 years ago Read more -
Blog postHey everyone!
I know that I don’t post nearly as often as I should. I have been cloistered around my computer beating an outline out of my skull. Made some great progress on that, so I decided I would drop a line and share something cool with you.
Some of you who game may already be aware of this tool. It is called Autorealm, and it is a freeware mapping program. This is a pretty cool tool for those of you that like to create a map of your fantasy world to add some wow factor.8 years ago Read more -
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Titles By Bill D. Allen
That's right grab yer BBQ sauce, hunker down, and enjoy the latest in the Bubbas of the Apocalypse universe.
Let's face it, when good ole boys and gals are left to their own vices... er I mean devices to fight the Yumbie horde in the time after the great Yuppie 25 Plague, certain niceties, rules of conduct, and laws are going to be tossed aside. Folks will bathe and brush their teeth when and if they feel like it. No one's going to care if someone's sleeping with their cousin, and your stupid friend Ned is going to own the keys to the world.
With Stories By:
Bill Allen, M.H. Bonham, Robert D. Brown, James K. Burk, James S. Dorr, Linda J. Dunn, Melanie Fletcher, Bennie Grezlik, Matt Howl, Julia Blackshear Kosatka, Gary Jonas, Andrew Zimmerman Jones, John M. Lance, Lee W. Lindsay, Jr., Lee Martindale, Tracy S. Morris, Gloria Oliver, Garrett Peck, Robert Pickering, Selina Rosen, Mark Shepherd, Bradley H. Sinor, Glenn R. Sixbury, Mark W. Tiedemann, Jeff Turner, Laura J. Underwood, Billy Vincent, and poetry by Ajax.
"I just finished the last page of THE FOUR BUBBAS OF THE APOCALYPSE, and my jaw is now permanently dropped. Camaraderie and flatulence, halitosis and high adventure, hilarity and horror, bad taste and good writing, all combine to make this world of dystopian trailer parks and the folks who inhabit them a strangely hard place to leave. Why, next to these people, those other four apocalyptic guys seem positively Biblical. Oh. Wait a minute... " -- John Wooley, author of AWASH IN THE BLOOD
“The concept eludes me.” – Glenn Cook, author of the BLACK COMPANY novels
From the author team of Bill D. Allen and Gary Jonas: Pirates of the Outrigger Rift!
When the security director of the powerful corporation Nebulaco dies under mysterious circumstances, courier Sai Collins has one last top-secret delivery to make for him. But she has a secret of her own; she's a computer telepath who can connect to the grid without hardware.
It’s a talent she needs when she arrives at the drop point to make the delivery and is ambushed by heavily armed goons, barely escaping with her life. Now, caught in the crosshairs of feuding lords, unrelenting security forces, and dangerous outlaws, she’ll need some help to make it out alive. Enter a pair of unlikely allies also caught in the mix: charming, down-on-his-luck pilot Hank Jensen and jaded PI Mike Chandler. Their mission: take down the ruthless pirate who is bringing the galaxy to its knees with his bloody hijackings of corporate trade routes.
Unfolding at a break-neck pace, Pirates of the Outrigger Rift is the rollicking new sci-fi adventure of corporate espionage and interstellar piracy.
This book was initially released in episodes as a Kindle Serial. All episodes are now available for immediate download as a complete book. Learn more about Kindle Serials
Hank Jensen, space trader and his partner Sai Collins a street tough cyber thief with psychic powers are in deep trouble when they step in the middle of a revolution on a corrupt plantation world.
Confed Intelligence Agent Angus Brock and their former comrade in arms Mike Chandler are hunting for them too—the powers that be think that Sai is too dangerous to be free.
Even if Hank and Sai survive the revolution, can Sai escape the Confed?
ROLLICKING SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE
So kick back, grab a beer, fire up the grill, hunker down,
and enjoy the ride. Eighteen of Sci-fi and Horror’s most
inventive and -- dare we say demented -- minds have come
together to compose a vision of the future which will scare
the “bejesus” out of most “normal” folk.
“Listen up! The world as we know it is going to end, just as
you thought -- only not for the reasons you predicted. It’s not
the meek who’re going to inherit the earth, or the rich, or the
famous, or the well-prepared. No, the folks who survive the
end of civilization are those who never needed it much
anyway and for reasons... well, you’re not likely to guess
why, but I promise you, once you’ve read Bubbas of the
Apocalypse, you’re going to have a whole new perspective
on the real mainstays of South’m cuisine: Twinkies, Spam,
and rot-gut red sauce.
“YARD DOG PRESS has collected nineteen of the darn strangest
visions of the apocalypse and every one’s a keeper. So get
yourself some Mountain Dew and settle in for a great read.”
Lynn Abbey, Author of Jerlayne and Sanctuary
“Off the wall and unusual... Rosen does it again... A wild
and creative blend of southern humor and fantasy.”
C.J. Cherryh, Author of Hammer Fall
With stories by: Bill Allen, Garrett Peck, Robert Brown, Mark
Shepherd, Ed Cain, Selina Rosen, Gary Jonas, Laura Underwood,
James Dorr, Mark Fewell, Everett Bell, Rob Gates, Lee Martindale,
Bradley Sinor, Wiliam Gagliani, Keith Berdak, and poetry by Ajax.
It’s that crazy time in the future when the world’s gone ta hell in a big ole purse. The only humans left over is good ole boys and gals and their kin, lovin’, fightin’, eatin’ Q, an huntin’ their flesh eatin’, upwardly-mobile enemies–the Yumbies.
This here edition of the ever-growin’ Bubbas of the Apocalypse saga asks the question y’all probably didn’t care ‘bout at all–“What happened to bubbas that weren’ in the good ole US of A when the plague hit? What trials and tribulations must the bubbas of the future deal with when they have to live in distant lands where there ain’t no Wal-Marts to raid, and more Yumbies than you can shake a stick at?”
This here book takes a look-see at bubbas fighting to survive in hostile foreign lands, like France and Ascrackastan and Hewiua just ta name a few.
“Two thumbs way up for International House of Bubbas. Never have I seen so many kick-ass stories in one book. The editor must be a person of incredible integrity and taste.” – Selina Rosen author of lots of books you ought to be buying.
“Selina Rosen is the sort of bitch who would edit a book and then blurb it herself. What an asshole!” – Anonymous Source
Carl is known by many names on many realities. He’s immortal, a war god capable of horrific destruction, but he grew tired of killing and quit the family business long ago. He traded divine genocide for playing music in honky tonks, inns, and backwater roadhouses.
But no matter how he tries to avoid them, his family just won’t leave him alone. Now the family needs him to save creation from a soul eating menace from the dark heart of chaos.
Only one problem - to avoid becoming a monster, he must not use his powers.
REVIEWS:
"Duty Calls is a can’t put it down page turner...Allen’s world is intricate and captivating...."
"Duty Calls is a well crafted tale of a War God named Kaltron aka Carl trying to find peace and meaning in his relative humanity...It is a fast paced enjoyable read with a hero you can cheer for...."
"Gods and monsters, mortals and mayhem with a few dragons mixed in for effect....Who wants to live forever, and if you did, could you handle it?...Come along for the ride ...."
All Carl wanted to do was retire as a war god. An eternity of death and destruction in a thousand realities has turned him against all the gods and convinced him that humanity was better off without them. But when he loses his divinity and his magical weapons he can't celebrate. They've been taken by a power-hungry fool who has no idea of the damage that will be released upon the world.
But how can Carl, now mortal, challenge a god?
JAKE BLACKTHORN
A man haunted by his past. Vivid memories of the massacre of his family drive him to vengeance against creatures that hid behind human faces.
Jake alone can see the darkness within them. He is obsessed with their destruction. But they are growing in power and they speak the approaching "Nexus" when darkness will consume the earth.
DETECTIVE KARL PATTERSON
Experienced cop looking for a ritualistic killer, not realizing that some of the victims are not human. Once he feels the touch of evil, the taint of it changes his life forever.
REVEREND JIMMY RAY AUSTIN
An Insane televangelist preparing for the Second Coming, when his wife will rise renewed from the rotting corpse he carries with him wrapped in garbage bags. With the help of the mysterious "angels" sent by Almighty God he will perform miracles in the name of the lord.
If the dark covenant is fulfilled, man will lose his reign on earth forever.
“Tinker’s Damn”—A young cowboy falls for a singing girl in a medicine show. But the wonders of Herr Uhrwerk’s magic wagon are stranger than he realizes.
“Clay Allison and the Haunted Head”—Gunfighter and rogue Clay Allison’s posse make quick work of the man who has been killing travelers and robbing them of their loot, cutting off the man’s head in a an act of frontier justice. But when the head won’t die, and worst yet, when it refuses to give up the location of the treasure, Clay is mighty put out.
“Annie Oakley and the Terror of the World’s Fair”—The 1893 World’s Fair was a turning point for America and the start of the true industrial age. Nicolas Tesla, Harry Houdini, Susan B. Anthony and many others were on hand but the stars were Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley and their Wild West show. When death stalks the grounds of the show, Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill must fight an evil from the distant past.
Cover art and interior line art by Matthew Scott.
Children’s stories in the ancient tradition of the Brothers Grim. That’s right! “Hurl” is a collection of stories that will scare any 20th or 21st century child into behaving, just as those of the Grim Brothers have scared so many previous generations straight. No more sugar coating. No PC Garbage. Just plain, simple, if you misbehave in this way, the consequences will be dire!!!
Most of civilization in ruins, Yumbies (yuppie zombies) running around chomping on the brains of Bubba kind, oh what’s a red-blooded, NASCAR-watching, tobacco-chewing American to do?
Well... ain’t no guards on NASA—secret government lavatories, and all sorts of scientific thingy-ma-bobs, so it’s time for Bubbas to spread their wings, reach for the stars, and tinker with things... well, that they probably shouldn’t be farting around with.
Bubbas in space, with time machines, dealing with aliens, building robots to save them from Yumbies... Why this here might jus’ be the funniest damn Bubbas of the Apocalypse book yet.
That’s right. When them boys took off with that time platform trying to save their hero, NASCAR driving ace Buddy Dewayne Brooster, they tore up all shit. Now a time wave is racing across the planet, plucking bubbas out of their time and slipping them and their arch enemies the yumbies, all over the place and all through time.
The writers have outdone themselves as bubbas have encounters with Egyptians, dinosaurs, cave men, and medieval knights and meet face-to-face such historical figures as Buffalo Bill, Robert E. Howard, and the King himself—Elvis!
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and then you’ll just admit that you’re never going to get the money back that you paid for this book.
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