Whew.

Well, the past couple of months have been mostly family, friends, work, and Bull Spec. But here's something which is just enough that I'd like to note it here:

My story, "The Man in the Mirror", is now up at Fifty-Two Stitches Dark Flash Fiction.

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Places to write in RTP: Observation Park at RDU.

Observation Park at RDU Airport is a pretty nice place to write because:

1. No WiFi (no distractions)
2. Large steel birds which should be flightless nonetheless soar and land with grace
3. Air Traffic Control Chatter on the speakers
4. There's a bathroom
5. There are details on small aircraft to read, like flight range, capacity, fuel consumption, etc.

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Wow. It's been a while.

If for some bizarre reason you're here instead of the BULL SPEC blog, head over there for some fun news:

1. Creative Commons licensed, pay-what-you-like PDF version of BULL SPEC #1 is available.
2. BULL SPEC #1 is now available at a bunch of stores, the latest of which is the Cary Barnes & Noble.

And some stuff that doesn't really go over there: two video "reviews" (more like previews or surveys or whatever):

1. Crossed Genres #16 "Steampunk"
2. Folded Word's Heron2

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The tools for the commons are ready.

When getting ready to launch BULL SPEC, there were a lot of questions about the tools available to use in producing the e-books and audiobooks. Could I afford top end audio recording software, professional desktop publishing software, vector graphic software, and so on; were the open source versions really ready?


The open source tools are more than ready.
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Holy updates!

Note the first: the wonderful Thaumatrope is publishing my holiday-themed serial "Bad Elf: A Dark Christmas Serial (Killer)" both on Twitter and the website. This is a whole lot of fun; huge personal thanks to Mr. Lilly for working me through a month of rewrites to get it into a format that both Twitter and I can be happy with, and I hope at least a few people are amused.

Note the second: BULL SPEC #1 is now open for pre-orders. Source code available to the Google App Engine to Paypal ExpressCheckout bridge over at GitHub.
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