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Podcasts and Books and Things

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Last night I attended another Sequential Artists’ Pub podcast. This week’s main topic was books – preparing things for print, where/how to have them printed, where/how to sell them, etc.

In case you’re wondering, I save the full-size 300dpi scans of my strips before I resize them and save them for the web, and I used those files when I put the first book (Get Yours Today!) together. I took the print-on-demand route for publishing, with lulu.com, so it’s printed (and sold) through them. I’ll most likely put out the second book (which I’m currently working on) that way too.

And in unrelated news, today’s voting bonuses are the rough drafts for yesterday’s strip, today’s strip, and tomorrow’s, and a bad translation of today’s strip. Enjoy!

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Available for Download

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

For anyone who wanted a copy of An Experimental Space Pod Visits Station V3 but didn’t want it on paper, you’re in luck! The book is now available from Lulu as a PDF download – it’s over 100 pages, including several month’s worth of strips (mostly from 2004), and some new material (mostly involving the Space Pod) exclusive to the book!

And for anyone who wanted the book in its printed form, you’re also in luck! That’s still available too.

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Breaking the silence

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

I haven’t had too much to say here this month! (But there might be something soon enough.) I did renew the stationv3.com domain name for another year, and this time the comic paid for the domain name itself (and is now working on the hosting) through sales of the book – so thank you to everyone who bought a copy so far, and I hope you enjoy it!

In other news, there are two new voting bonuses today – A sprite strip in which the past/present/future Ebb/Neap situation is (sort of) resolved, and the third season of Rumormonger Idol begins. Thanks for voting!

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Related: Pomegranate

Friday, January 25th, 2008

As some of you probably know, LiveJournal has little “SnapShot” windows that pop up to give a preview of the page a link leads to. In addition to the preview, it lists some related searches. At the moment, for a link to the Station V3 book for sale at Lulu.com, it lists “Pomegranate” as one of the related searches. I’m not quite sure how it came up with that! But if you’re looking for a book to read, I’d recommend the V3 book instead of the pomegranate. On the other hand, the pomegranate would probably taste better. So if you’re hungry, eat the pomegranate. (While reading the book, for best results!)

It also listed “Dark Shadows” and “Blue Whale” as related searches. Related to each other, yes, but I’m not sure how they connect to Station V3! (Or the pomegranate.)

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Looking back, looking ahead

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Last January I made some comic-related New Year’s Resolutions. I think for the most part I managed to keep them:

Update Station V3 every day – yep, did that.
Update Z7 at least 50 times – I wound up putting up 98 new strips and getting it back on a regular schedule.
Update Ebb’s Children at least 10 times – Update 13 times.
Make a few changes to the site – Yep, made a few. Maybe not as many as I planned, but a few!
Finish putting together the first Station V3 book – Did that! (And you can buy it here.)
Keep things interesting – I certainly hope I did that!

…And I also did a few things I hadn’t planned to do! For example, starting Silence in the Darkness on Q16, the third Station V3 spinoff. It actually had the most visitors of the four comics last month, thanks to visitors from StumbleUpon, and various German web sites, such as this one. (Though Station V3 still had the Pac-Man share of the site bandwidth pie chart, and is back in the lead this month.)

Plans for 2008 include hoping the comics will earn enough through Project Wonderful ads and book sales to pay for their hosting, doing more guest strips for other comics, and generally doing pretty much the same thing I did in 2007! (Except for putting together the first book – I’ll have to work on a second one instead.)

…So keep checking this year and see how I do, and I’ll have a followup post on the subject this time next year.

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