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Fiction Friday: "A Feast at the Manor"

UnWrecked Press presents: Fiction Friday

This week's free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "A Feast at the Manor."

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 after a very strange and otherworldly trip to California — LA, of course. What a place. "Feast" was first published at NeverWorlds...

Free Fiction Friday: "Visions of Suburban Bliss"

UnWrecked Press presents: Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Visons of Suburban Bliss."

UPDATE: Now that the free week is over, you can read the rest of this story by downloading an ebook at Amazon and Smashwords. Then you can read it on your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks.

"Visions of Suburban Bliss" was inspired by some long days at the day job, and some commutes back and forth to the day job...

Fiction Friday: "Visions of Suburban Bliss"

UnWrecked Press presents: Fiction Friday

This week's free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Visons of Suburban Bliss."

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!

"Visions of Suburban Bliss" was inspired by some long days at the day job, and some commutes back and forth to the day job that somehow felt even longer...

Free Fiction Friday: "A Miracle in Shreveport"

UnWrecked Press presents: Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "A Miracle in Shreveport."

UPDATE: Now that the free week is over, you can read the rest of this story by downloading an ebook at Amazon and Smashwords. Then you can read it on your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks.

I wrote this story as part of my baseball novel, and it held together as a story nicely. It was first published in Electric...

Fiction Friday: "A Miracle in Shreveport"

UnWrecked Press presents: Fiction Friday

This week's free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "A Miracle in Shreveport."

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 as part of my baseball novel, and it held together as a story nicely. It was first published in Electric Velocipede, May 2007, and was...

Digital Comics: Formatting Comics for the Kindle and Nook (an ebook)

Artist Niki Smith and I have been making digital comics for almost a year now (more or less — though it feels much longer than that). And we want to share what we've learned, so other folks can join the fun and get their comics out to a whole new set of readers.

So, we did what any creative folks would do. We made a book! An eBook, to be precise, entitled Formatting Comics for the Kindle and Nook.

While the title pretty much says it all, here's a bit more info:

Formatting comics and...

About Writer's Block

From I Can Haz Cheezburger: http://icanhascheezburger.com/

Just thought I'd share this, to see if anyone out there finds it helpful — a friend from high school sent me a note via Facebook, asking what I did about writer's block.

Here's my response.

Hmm… I do get writer's block, but it's more due to fatigue and burnout than a lack of stuff to write. Working a full-time job (as a technical writer, so I'm in front of a computer ALL the time), trying to find time to be with my wife and kids, and ...

Free Fiction Friday: "Coal Ash and Sparrows"

UnWrecked Press presents: Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Coal Ash and Sparrows."

UPDATE: Now that the free week is over, you can read the rest of this story by downloading an ebook at Amazon and Smashwords. Then you can read it on your laptop, desktop, Kindle, iPad, Nook, iPhone, or whatever device you use to read ebooks.

"Coal Ash and Sparrows" was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in January 2004. It was an Honorable Mention...

Fiction Friday: "Coal Ash and Sparrows"

UnWrecked Press presents: Fiction Friday

This week's free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Coal Ash and Sparrows."

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!

"Coal Ash and Sparrows" was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in January 2004. It was an Honorable Mention story in both The Year's Best...

Free Fiction Friday: "What Was Left Standing"

UnWrecked Press presents: Fiction Friday

This week's Free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "What Was Left Standing."

The inspiration for this story came from driving past a road construction site late in the day, where I saw just one worker standing guard over a series of small fires as they burned away the last of the trees where a road would go one day. That image stuck with me, so I used it with the characters of Ellie and Chris from "After the Storm." "What Was Left Standing"...