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I originally released Nanowhere under a Creative Commons license in the spring of 2006, and it was on the Lykeion Books site, downloadable and sharable for several years. Cory Doctorow was nice enough to blog about it on BoingBoing, and things really took off. I stopped keeping track after 10,000 downloads.  I pulled the book in 2009, intending to ( Read more... )

You really want to know what kicks ass about our world?  When you get people together who are passionate about something, there's always magic, sometimes there are temporal anomalies, sometimes there's even free stuff.

Check this out. Say it with me:

What the world needs is a smart, fun, interactive "blog, resource, and community dedicated to the ( Read more... )

To narrow that down a bit, does the posting of stories, novels, and art for free downloading, reading, viewing, and even sharing, make any difference in print book sales, in attracting more traffic to an author's or illustrator's blog, in doing anything to help that artist's career?

I give away a lot.  I have a whole blog dedicated to some of my ( Read more... )

Another three pages up!  Kassandra's still underwater, dropping deeper and deeper into the Atlantic, but she's about to hit the bottom.  I did all three of these in five to six hours, all digital from start to finish, although I did have a head start, did a bunch of sketching for these and the next set.  I'll end chapter three of Saltwater Witch ( Read more... )

Here's a scene from page 55 of Saltwater Witch--and a story contained within another story.  I'll be posting pages 55 - 58 tonight or tomorrow.  This is Kassandra in the school cafeteria reading The Odyssey of Homer seconds before she gets a bit of a surprise.

I re-read Hyperion by Dan Simmons over the weekend (started Friday night, finished this ( Read more... )

Five frightening classic tales--all written by women--that should send a shiver or two down your spine.

FIVE CLASSIC GHOST STORIES: A ( Read more... )

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Joe and Al

DR. ERNEST STRAFF wasn’t surprised when the jumptroopers tackled him in his dining room, stuffed his head in a bag, zip-tied his wrists and ankles, dragged him into a clearing in the forest next to his house, and cabled him up into a hovering gunship. He just thought or hoped or wished he had had more time.

In seven ( Read more... )