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New Combo eBook: IN MAPS & LEGENDS 1-4

Now that we've hit four issues (already!), we wanted to offer new readers a chance to get caught up with our special "combo pack" — a digital bundle of issues 1 through 4 of IN MAPS & LEGENDS.

So instead of paying almost $4 and downloading issues 1-4 individually, you can buy the combo pack and get those four issues as a short graphic novel. Best thing about it is that you save over a dollar buying those issues as a bundle.

Second-best thing is that you also get a snazzy new cover, which...

Fiction Friday: "Working the Game"

UnWrecked Press presents: Fiction Friday

This week's free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Working the Game."

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!

"Working the Game" — my take on the war of the classes in the future — was first published at the now-defunct PDF magazine Future Orbits in April 2002.

Working the ...

IN MAPS & LEGENDS #4 is Now Live!

In this issue we have: a crawl through some catacombs, a new map or two, hijacked cell phone calls, a bridge over a toxic river, and of course, everyone's favorite steam-powered robot Neatline. It's a fun issue, with a very trippy final page…

Here's the official synopsis:

With Bartamus' world falling apart around them, LaVonne, Jeremy, and Antawn venture deeper into unknown territory, while Kait travels into the darkness between worlds — and she's no longer alone.

Plus a whole lot more in a

Digital Comics: Check Out Our New Distributors for IN MAPS & LEGENDS

Over at the IN MAPS & LEGENDS official website, I wrote about the four — possibly five — new digital distributors we're working with to get our comics out to more and more people. For those of you interested in creating and selling your own comics, bop on over and check it out.

That blog entry is a companion piece to these two earlier entries I did about distributors:

A Dozen Digital Distributors for Comics (1 of 2)
A Dozen Digital Distributors for Comics (2 of 2)

Enjoy! And be sure to keep...

Fiction Friday: "Fences"

UnWrecked Press presents: Fiction Friday

This week's free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Fences."

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 for my third writing workshop at NC State, and it's one of those landmark stories where I feel like I took a huge step forward with my writing voice. I...

Digital Comics: Formatting Your Comic for the Kindle

As I mentioned in my post about our downloads from 2010, Kindle downloads were our 3rd most popular format, after the Nook (here's more about Nook formatting) and Comixology.

So I figured I'd cover how we created issues of IN MAPS & LEGENDS for the Kindle as well. Relax — Kindle formatting is WAY easier than Nook formatting. Just wanted to get that outta the way first.

While Amazon's Kindle was the breakthrough ereader in many ways, its biggest drawback for comics creators is that it only...

Digital Comics: Updated Download Info for IN MAPS & LEGENDS in 2010

Reports are coming in from various distributors, so I updated our breakdown of the sales of IN MAPS & LEGENDS Issues 1, 2, and 3 from September 1 thru December 31, 2010.

UPDATED Number of downloads in 2010: About 750

UPDATED List of distributors and their percentage of sales in 2010:

B&N's Nookbook Store: 44%Comixology: 30%Amazon's Kindle Store: 13%DriveThruComics: 7%Graphic.ly: 5%Amazon's Kindle Store in the UK: .5%Wowio: .5%MyDigitalComics: 0%Robot Comics: 0% *LongBox: 0%XinXii: 0%Myebook: 0%

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Fiction Friday: "The Fifty-Minute Nietzsche"

UnWrecked Press presents: Fiction Friday

This week's free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "The Fifty-Minute Nietzsche."

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 back in grad school, so you can probably guess what I thought of some of my more theory-based classes at the time. Ironically, the...

Fiction Friday: "Wrecked"

UnWrecked Press presents: Fiction Friday

This week's free Fiction Friday story from UnWrecked Press is "Wrecked." Yes, this is the story that inspired the name of this little publishing company.

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 was one of the first stories I wrote when I started to seriously write stories again, ...

Digital Comics: Downloads and Sales of IN MAPS & LEGENDS in 2010

The first, and maybe most important piece of advice I can give you about self-publishing your digital comics?

Don't check your sales every day!

That way lies madness. I try to do a sales update once a week, and do my best not to peek at the reports (at those sites that provide reporting, that is) any other time but that once. Otherwise you'll drive yourself nuts, check and rechecking and clicking Refresh.

Trust me — I've survived the Zuda contest. I know what I'm talking about…

That said...