Last week I was at a Graphic Novel conference in Melbourne, so no update last week. This week I’m back, and to get back on topic, I’m still doing my weekly run of uploading comics to Bento Comics. This story has been posted on this blog before, but hey – it’s cute and a lot of people liked it.

Rundown: Bento Comics is a new website that permits users to read and compile their own short story anthologies. It then prints the book at a printing company called Lulu, and delivers the personalised book to your door. A new publishing model, if you will.

Short Story of the Week: The Sleeping Chick wakes up!! And finds itself all alone… well, not really.

E-book: Available on the right-hand side of this page, where it says “Ebook Available in .epub!”. It’s DRM-free, and Epub can be read on all platforms EXCEPT the Kindle. I’d like to charge USD$0.99 for this story (like iTunes), but the system isn’t yet in place so you can download it for free.

If you don’t have an e-reader like the iPad or Nook, you an download e-readers for your PC – here’s 2 programs you can download: The Adobe Acrobat eReader, and the Barnes and Noble eReader.

 

 

I came up with this story while I listening to Great Minds of Fantasy talk about their work. Neil Gaiman and Garth Nix were on that particular panel at a Publisher’s conference in Melbourne, and instead of absorbing what they were saying, I was thinking about chickens and eggs. And doodling on the Penguin writing pad they gave everyone for free – maybe it was the Penguin logo that got me thinking.