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Digital Comics: Formatting Your Comic for the Nook (ePub), UPDATED

ePub logo designed by Ralph Burkhardt

Back in January, I ran a blog post entitled Digital Comics: Formatting Your Comic for the Nook (ePub). Click back to that entry to learn more about ePubs, if you're not familiar with them.

Well, it's time for an update. Why? Well, for our digital comic IN MAPS & LEGENDS, we learned that part of the image got cut off on the new Nook Touch reader as well as on the original black and white nook.

Our new ePub template is resizable. Once again, we owe a huge...

Free Fiction Friday: "A Game of Contact"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "A Game of Contact."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. But for now, you can read it right here for free!

This story was first published in the mixed-media, mixed-genre anthology "Exquisite Corpuscle" in November 2008.

NOTE: F-bomb warning in the story below. You've...

A Wild Epidemic of Magic: Chapter 3

A Wild Epidemic of Magic (tentative cover ), art by Ron Chapple Studios

Now we have chapter 3 of my new contemporary fantasy novel, A Wild Epidemic of Magic, a sequel to A Sudden Outbreak of Magic.

If there's enough interest, I may just serialize the whole novel here. Let me know if you wanna read more in the comments, or  via email, Facebook, or Twitter (links are to the right).

I'm having a ball writing this book, and I hope you'll join me for the ride. donations are always accepted...

IN MAPS & LEGENDS 8 (of 9) is Now Live!

Penultimate! The second-to-the-last issue in our IN MAPS & LEGENDS comic storyline!

In this issue, tempers flare as the strange beings known as the Triumvirate return to Bartamus and Brema's world to finish what they started. And… somebody dies.

Here's the official synopsis:

The past and present come crashing together in this issue, as mysteries from years ago get resolved, and the final days of Bartamus' world unfold with a tragic turn of events for Kait and her companions.

Plus a whole lot...

A Wild Epidemic of Magic: Chapter 2

A Wild Epidemic of Magic (tentative cover ), art by Ron Chapple Studios

Below is chapter 2 of my new contemporary fantasy novel, A Wild Epidemic of Magic, a sequel to A Sudden Outbreak of Magic.

If there's enough interest, I may just serialize the whole novel here. Let me know if you wanna read more in the comments, or  via email, Facebook, or Twitter (links are to the right).

I'm having a ball writing this book, and I hope you'll join me for the ride. donations are always accepted. And i...

Free Fiction Friday: "Painting Haiti"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Painting Haiti."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. But for now, you can read it right here for free!

This story was first published in the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology "Paper Cities."

Painting Haiti

In spite of the alarm blaring for the past ten minutes...

A Wild Epidemic of Magic: Chapter 1

A Wild Epidemic of Magic (tentative cover ), art by Ron Chapple Studios

And here's chapter 1 of my new contemporary fantasy novel, A Wild Epidemic of Magic, a sequel to A Sudden Outbreak of Magic.

If there's enough interest, I may just serialize the whole novel here. Let me know if you wanna read more in the comments, or  via email, Facebook, or Twitter (links are to the right).

I'm having a ball writing this book, and I hope you'll join me for the ride. donations are always accepted...

Sixteen years of books

You know, if you stick with this fiction writing thing long enough (um, 16 years or so for me, somehow!), you'll start to see those words add up.

In my case, this hit home for me when I got the following books dropped off on my front porch last week:

I spent the last half of July, and part of August getting these six novels (six!) set up as print-on-demand books, and now they're all available at Amazon. Success!

You know, it's kind of amazing to see all my work there, spread out on the table...

A Wild Epidemic of Magic: Prologue

A Wild Epidemic of Magic (tentative cover ), art by Ron Chapple Studios

Below is the beginning of my new contemporary fantasy novel, A Wild Epidemic of Magic, the first sequel to A Sudden Outbreak of Magic (which is now available as a trade paperback and an ebook).

I plan on running at least the opening to this novel as fast as I can write it. If there's enough interest, I may serialize the whole thing. Let me know if you wanna read more in the comments, or  via email, Facebook, or Twitter...

Free Fiction Friday: "An Outrider's Tale"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "An Outrider's Tale."

As always, I'll soon put this week's story into ebook format for your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks. (This story will be part of a multiple-story ebook bundle.) But for now, you can read it right here for free!

I've always wanted to do a fairy-tale retelling, so this is my attempt at one. I really like the...