Allen Donnelly

Artist, Author, Whimsy Merchant

This is the official website of the artist and science-fiction/fantasy novelist, Allen Donnelly.

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No need to be Haytin'! Wye, you ask?

That's right, I'm in Hay on Wye!
I apologise for the puns, I've been watching too much My Drunk Kitchen on the Youtubes, the punnery rubs of on you.
Anyway, I'm here in Hay, where mobile phone signals fear to tread. A fear that is apparently shared with the sun, since it's wet and miserable!
I've attached a photo of my current view, no idea how it'll look in the post as I'm using the mobile app to write this.
As well as My Drunk Kitchen, I've also been watching a lot of Tabletop, Wil Wheaton's show on tabletop gaming. As a result me and my friend Karen spent most of last night drinking (a bit too much) and playing the Discworld card game. Was good fun, even though I lost.

In other news, I've submitted the Heroes Wanted Kickstarter project for approval so hopefully that'll be ready to go within the next few days. Probably not before I'm back from Hay, mind. I'd rather have properly working Internet when I do it.

That's it, I'm going to finish my breakfast!
Later,
Allen

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Wait...is this still on?

Hello, world!
It has been far too long since last I graced these pages and I can only apologise for that, but I'm back now and I swear I won't neglect you any more. We're still friends, right?
So, what's been happening?
 As you can see I've changed the design of the website after upgrading to the newer version of Squarespace's templates. I like this new look, it's all swanky and sleek.
As part of the move I have also got the domain allendonnelly.com, so that's cool.
What else...oh yeah, sometime in the next couple of days I'm gong to relaunch my first novel, Crystal Eyes, with a stylish new cover, bonus deleted scene and fewer typos than there were before. Here's the new cover:

I've also been working on the sequel. Yes, still. I had written quite a lot but decided I didn't like it much so...into the bin (figuratively speaking). Some parts of it may resurface in the newer version, we shall see.

Finally, I'm about to launch a Kickstarter project for Heroes Wanted. This will, hopefully, help me cover the cost of getting it professionally edited and allow me to provide cool swag like signed hard copy versions and t-shirts and so on!
It's almost ready to go, just need to sort a couple more things, so keep an eye out over the next few days.
Not that you'll be able to miss it, I'm going to be pimping the hell out of it once it gets going...