About Alan Lindsay
The books found here represent the work I've done in the realm usually known as fantasy or YA literature. I do not think of such things when I write. Categories are marketing tools. Writing toward them may create a product easier to market, but it will not create a book more pleasurable to read. I write stories I would like to read, stories that I believe a lot of people will enjoy. expertise in various niches including technology, health, finance, and lifestyle.
Alan Lindsay is a novelist, playwright, and English professor. His novels include The Burzee Rose, Stolen to Oz, and the ongoing OzHouse Trilogy, (written with his long-time friend Dennis Anfuso) OzHouse, OzHouse Revisited and OzHouse Ends. His plays have been performed more or less annually at Hatbox Theatre in Concord, New Hampshire. He teaches and serves as Department Head of English at NHTI, Concord’s Community College. He holds several advanced degrees, including an M.A. in Fiction Writing from the University of Notre Dame.
The Love Magnet of Oz
The Marvelous Land of Oz Invaded by Raving Pink Sorceress
There's a new witch in the broken castle of the Wicked Witch of the West. She calls herself The Sorceress Lady Mumps. She vows to “make Oz marvelous again.” All she needs is three clever cronies and a powerful weapon.
Meanwhile, at Reed Elementary, Mildred finds an old magnet stuck to the buckle of her boot. Louise recognizes it immediately as the famous Love Magnet of Oz. But this charm has more magic than anyone ever knew. It draws Mildred and Louise along with their friend Thaddeus and Sam the bully into the chaotic world of Lady Mumps. In the struggle that follows, they realize just how powerful the magnet is.
The Love Magnet of Oz revisits familiar characters from the old story: The Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman, while it also revives less-known inhabitants of the world of L. Frank Baum: the Shaggy Man, the Patchwork Girl, Tik-Tok the Mechanical Man, and Professor H.M. Wogglebug, T.E.
The Burzee Rose
A Christmas Carol
Morris’ life would have been great—if not for his new stepsisters and those crazy little men who thought they were elves. No matter. Morris’s latest stepmother would certainly be gone by Christmas like all the rest. Wasn’t she already trolling on the internet all day for her next husband? But would she take Jasmine and Tanya with her? And why did these girls want to pull him into their troubles anyway? He just wanted to play video games. Everything with have blown over if that substation hadn’t blown up. But when the power blew and he scurried out to get gas for the generator, Jasmine just had to go with him. And then they stumbled into those reindeer and that rogue pair of little men on a mission to rescue the North Pole. And then—wouldn’t you know it—they had to get themselves sucked into the time vortex. So now there were two problems to solve: Claire and Christmas
Stolen to Oz
The Con and the Crazy Bike Lady in Oz?
Where did that balloon come from? And why were bags of Emeralds tied to the side? Miss Jennie Grierson and Doctor Morgan Fiddledog tumble together inside the basket, with Toto dangling down below. The three of them are blown away on an adventure to the castle of an old witch in the strange and curious Land of Oz. The proud remainder of a once-great southern family must learn to get along with the snake oil salesman if she is to have any chance to survive in this land of talking trees and Winkie guards and flying monkeys. And also the little dog.
OzHouse
It Wasn't Supposed to Be Magic
They built it for children. There were certainly going to be children. There was no doubt about that. They had always planned on children. Lots of children. They were artists and writers and their favorite books were the classics. Alice in Wonderland, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Wizard of Oz, the Grimms' fairy tales, Hand Christian Anderson. Out of the books, they built OzHouse on fifty acres of woods in rural New Hampshire. It was emerald green. It had towers and turrets and a widow's walk. Yellow bricks led to the doors and all around the grounds. It stood as a monument to creativity, and to fantasy and imagination. And it was meant for children. But Life had other plans.
OzHouse Revisited
The Curse of Budistiltskin
Ten years have passed. Charlie fears his love of fairylands has ruined him. Jessica needs to save her sister from following the path of her lost and alcoholic mother. Doug Robbins' marriage is coming unraveled, and the state almost never sends children to OzHouse anymore. Should they look to fairylands for help? Or do fantasies just make things worse? No one has dared the magic doorway in years, but maybe there are answers there. Can Charlie renew his art? Can Doug renew himself? Can Jessica find a better place for her sister and her sister's doomed children? Perhaps the answers are tied to the fate of the one they left behind, poor, little Buddy Samson. Perhaps they need to find him. But first, they'll have to face the devil.