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Okay, so here it is.

The Matthew and Epp stories don’t have a name.  I’m having no luck thinking of one.  So you’re going to think of one.

I’m starting a contest where you can submit possible titles, I’ll pick my favorite, and the winner gets either an Amazon Kindle or a Sony Reader, your choice.  Runners up get signed copies of the book.  The contest will run until mid-ish December.

The details are contained in the “Contest” tab at the top of the page.

I’m very excited.

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The below link points to an entertaining and rather brilliant photo-essay composed by Timo Hannay called, “The Future is a Foreign Country.”

Well worth a Friday read.

“He’s reading his phone.” Think about how alien that sounds. Think about how somebody from just half a generation ago would try to parse that sentence: “He’s reading his phone.” It sounds like something out of a Haruki Murakami novel. You might as well tell a record company executive that people have started listening to their cameras. And in fact, they have.  Welcome to the future.

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The Matthew and Epp stories are now all available in one place.

You can view them as one post right here.  I have no idea what the consequences might be of putting a post that long onto the internet.  Seriously.  It’s just all ten parts, 99,000 words, cut and pasted into one post.  That’s as easy as I can make it for pure internet reading.  So far it has opened when I click on it.  For all I know, though, too many clicks could blackout the entire eastern seaboard.  You can also go click on the shiny new button in the sidebar to get there as well.

Also, Matthew and Epp, as well as a number of other stories, are starting to be available on the Kindle.  You can see my store here.  Click around through the categories and see what’s what.  It’s very obvious that I need to find my covers quickly; the store looks quite drab right now.  Likewise there is a shiny new Amazon.com button in the sidebar that will take you to my store.

Next up is to put everything into old-school print books.  That’s easy enough for the 16 individual stories from the 26 Stories project.

For Matthew and Epp, though, there is a little problem.  More on that later.

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So continuing on with the whole putting everything from last year into different formats theme, the Matthew and Epp stories will be hitting the Kindle by the end of the week.  And that’s just for starters, the formatting done to prepare them for the Kindle brings them a lot lot closer to preparing them for a nice paperback book among other things.  There’s only one problem.  I’ve spent so much time referring to these as “The Matthew and Epp Stories” that I can’t think of anything else to call them.

I have a solution for this that I’m toying with.  It involves you, your collective imaginations, and fabulous prizes.

More on this later.

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“Liquid Calling” is now available on the Kindle.  It was a little odd how easy that was.  I’ve had a harder time composing e-mails.  You just send it in, then it takes a day or two for their elves to process what you’ve given them.  And I need to work on what keywords I’ve given them and have to write better blurbs and what have you, but the basic process is cake.  I’ll start putting the rest of the stories up now as well as shiny new buttons on my sidebars linking to their store.

Also, my quest for covers is now a lot more pressing as the stories are going to look very plain and unloved without colorful pictures alongside them to boost their self-esteem.

So I guess that’s my job this week.  All 26 stories up on the Kindle.  Or, rather, 16 stories and the Matthew and Epp stories lumped all together.

Then it’s on to a print version.

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