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Snake People for iPad

April 4, 2010 Follow Up, Snake People

snake people iconIf you got an iPad this weekend, you know the iBooks app comes pre-installed with Winnie-the-Pooh. The attached iBookstore has a bunch of titles with which to fill your wood-grained shelves.

But in a welcome change from the walled garden of the App Store, iBooks will happily show you any ePub file you throw it. Including last week’s short story, Snake People.

If you want to test it out, you can download the ebook and try it out for yourself.

You’ll be downloading an ePub file that you need to drag over to iTunes. It will end up in the “Books” section of the sidebar, and should transfer the next time you sync. If it doesn’t, check that you have “Sync Books” ticked.

sync books

It’s not as slick as being able to purchase directly through the iBookstore, but Apple doesn’t let you “sell” free books. Neither does Amazon. It’s frustrating but understandable; they have costs, too.

If you have an iPad, try it out. Problems/concerns, leave a note here, or tweet.

Snake People

March 29, 2010 Projects, Snake People, The Variant

snake people coverI have a brand-new short story called Snake People. It’s available today, free.

Snake People is a bit shorter than The Variant, and…well, kinkier. By movie terms, it would still be Rated R, but I feel some fair warning is called for. It’s both fleshy and scaly.

The story is part of Popcorn Fiction, an ongoing anthology of short fiction by screenwriters, including original work by Scott Frank, Larry Doyle, Jeff Lowell and many others. Derek Haas created the whole endeavor.

Cover art is by Ryan M. Nelson.

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