Last year we put together an anthology ebook of stories set exclusively in our Terran Shift universe. The result is a collection of seven stories from five authors, spanning from the high-tech cyberpunk dystopia of the Bio-Tech Era to the Sol-Bect War Era. When we originally released this ebook, we decided to make it an [...]

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What The Heck’s a Hackathon? I’ve seen quite a few articles, magazines, and websites talking about hackathons lately… as if they are something new. These articles don’t always explain what hackathons are. So I thought I’d take a moment to talk about them, some of the hackathons I’ve done in the past, and what I’m [...]

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The Sol-Bect War Part 3 is starting to show up at all the Smashwords Premium Catalog stores. So far, it’s appeared at Kobo, Diesel, and Barnes & Noble stores. We are still waiting for it to show up at iTunes and Sony Reader Store.   The Sol-Bect War, Part 3 at Kobo The Sol-Bect War, [...]

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Smashwords And EPUBs Smashwords made a change recently and now allows publishers to upload hand-formatted EPUB files. Originally, the only EPUB files you could have at Smashwords were the ones automatically generated by their Meat Grinder program. While Meat Grinder does a pretty decent job, I always found the ebooks to be rather plain looking. [...]

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Part 3 of Paul’s ever-growing Sol-Bect War science fiction war saga is now available at Smashwords! Almost six years after the end of the Sol-Bect War, peace is still elusive. While the Bectolothian home world is being torn apart by civil war, their military ignites another conflict with the Terrans. As the Terran war machine [...]

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A few days ago, I wrote about our surveys no longer being active. Since then, I received some suggestions for survey sites to check out. Thanks to everyone who responded. I did a lot of digging and searching, but in the end, I decided to program my own solution (like I needed another project, lol). The survey [...]

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We used to have a couple of surveys running at an external site. I had created a survey for our Thanks page, to ask people who had just made a purchase or a donation how they found us. I also had a survey for the official Batch Image Converter Wish List. I’m currently planning on [...]

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