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Free Fiction Friday: "Meet the Madfeet"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Meet the Madfeet."

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 wrote this story as my tribute to the beloved world and creatures created by J.R.R. Tolkien (though...

Free Fiction Friday: "Heart and Map, Ink and Blade"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Heart and Map, Ink and Blade."

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!

This story started with a sentence lobbed over the ocean from a fellow writer in England...

Free Fiction Friday: "The City of All-Worlds"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "The City of All-Worlds."

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 bundle.) But for now, you can read it right here for free!

This long story (also known as a "novelette") takes place in a fictional world whose map gets used in...

Free Fiction Friday: "Skidmark and Mudbeam"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Skidmark and Mudbeam."

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!

I wrote this story in December of 2009, after one of my many afternoon walks around the building where I spend my days working for the man…

Skidmark and Mudbeam

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Our Digital Comic Downloads and Sales: Through Mid-2011 (UPDATED)

Back in January, I listed our 2010 sales broken out by distributor and what percentage of our sales came from each. I figured now was a good time to update that chart so other comics creators thinking of going digital can compare notes and maybe dive into the digital world at last.

The sales number listed below are go back from when we started back in September 2010. The numbers cover issues 1-6 of IN MAPS & LEGENDS, our combo ebook that bundles issues 1-4, and our Formatting Comics ebook.

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Our Digital Comic Downloads and Sales: Through Mid-2011

Back in January, I listed our 2010 sales broken out by distributor and what percentage of our sales came from each. I figured now was a good time to update that chart so other comics creators thinking of going digital can compare notes and maybe dive into the digital world at last.

The sales number listed below are go back from when we started back in September 2010. The numbers cover issues 1-6 of IN MAPS & LEGENDS, our combo ebook that bundles issues 1-4, and our Formatting Comics ebook.

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IN MAPS & LEGENDS 7 (of 9) is Live!

In this issue we have more airship battles, some time-travel-related confusion, a couple of reunions in the past and present, and the return of some very strange beings who are not at all pleased at the current state of affairs.

Here's the official synopsis:

All maps lead to one place on the dying world of Stryla: Balasander's Crest, an active volcano at the top of the world. And that's where Kait and her friends, old and new, must travel, though the price they must pay at the Crest may be too...

Free Fiction Friday: "Mother of the Bride"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Mother of the Bride" (just in time for wedding season… heh heh heh).

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!

I wrote this particular piece of nastiness many moons ago, for a contest based on an image of a zombified bride...

Free Fiction Friday: "Unplugged"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

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

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!

The first version of this story was "Where I'm Jacking In From," which I wrote while at the Clarion Writers Workshop in the summer of 2006. It was the last week of the...

Free Fiction Friday: "Gunning for the Buddha"

UnWrecked Press presents: Free Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Gunning for the Buddha."

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!

"Gunning" was first published at S1ngularity, March 2003, and it was an Honorable Mention story in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror vol. 17. It was also...