I forgot to mention: the good folks who brought you Infinite Summer present a new project: Infinite Dracula! During the month of October we’re reading the original Dracula novel by Bram Stoker.

I’ll be posting my thoughts on Mondays all this month, and commenting on the posts that the other guides (Zulkey and Baldwin) write.

My first post is here. So far I’m totally digging the book and the project and the community. Reading books and then talking about them: it just makes sense.

Exciting: three of my books are now available for the Kindle (or your iPhone, if you have the Kindle app? I guess? I’m not really sure how these things work anymore).

Touch Anything Except Me

Fever Dream Ghost Book

The Location Scout

I need to flesh out the book descriptions at Amazon. I am terrible at this. For now Goodreads is still the best place to find information and reviews.

I’m hoping to have Twelve Times Lost available soon as well. It’s currently tied up in questions about e-book rights, since it’s also available in print. On the one hand, it’s kind of a hassle (it’s available in print from a friend of mine, and the book pre-dates e-book rights. We did not know from e-book rights in 2002). But on the other hand, I’m totally glad to see Amazon engaged in due diligence before these things go live in the Kindle store. So far it’s a good problem to have. Ask me again in a few weeks.

The process of Kindling the texts was pretty straight-forward, thanks to John August’s tutorial. It is exactly like coding a website was in 1998, which made it a delightfully relaxing endeavor, in an age when I do not understand how a Tumblr works.

I priced the books at $0.99 each. This seems reasonable to me. Is it? I spend that much on an mp3 without thinking twice. I can see cases for making them either less or more expensive. It’s mostly academic since Amazon keeps most of the money. That’s part of the deal when you control the means of conveyance. I just want people to read the stories, basically.

If you happen to download them, let me know how it goes, or if you see any problems. I’m still new at this. We all are.

Ping and ye shall receive.

I put this together a long time ago and meant to mention it here, but you know me, internet. Always on to the next thing, never looking back. One hand tenderly strokes your face while the other frantically reaches for the stars, as the saying goes.

Anyways: as far as I know this here is a collection of every song that was ever posted to the Whygodwhy Lounge. Please download and enjoy, do with them as you please, with my blessing. Someday I want to start this up again but WGW Inc and its subsidiaries operate on a fairly tight margin, affording neither the time nor the softwares that allow one to indulge in the more leisurely pursuits. Again with the stars.

Download the Compleat Lounge Collection.

I was in this video and it was a fairly big hit around the video game industry blogosphere this past April 1st.

I think this is probably the only time I’ve ever mentioned my waking life on this website, but the occasion seems right.

If you ordered your copy of  The Location Scout before 5 pm Central on Thursday March 12, it is now in the mail, on its way to you at speeds untold. That means you, United States. That means you, Canada and the United Kingdom. That even means you, Romania! Romania, you guys. We sell to Romania at a loss, but it’s OK. You have to give to live.

As of this writing there are 4 copies left. I think that will probably be it, at least for the forseeable future. We want to focus on the next project, which we also hope to finish this year. The theme for 2009 is Setting Achievable Goals. It has gotten us this far. Thank you.

ETA: Sold out. Thank you!