Webomator Blog http://www.webomator.com Swell News, Hype & Hyperbole from the Secret Laboratory at Webomator.com Thu, 23 May 2013 11:46:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with FeedLoungeSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with NewsAlloySubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with Yourminis.comSubscribe with Attensa for OutlookSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with netomat HubSubscribe with Daily RotationSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with Flurry New Page at Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WebomatorBlog/~3/ZqrNKW-jM9c/ http://www.webomator.com/2013/05/23/new-page-at-thrilling-tales-of-the-downright-unusual-30/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 11:09:11 +0000 bws http://www.webomator.com/?p=1774 A new page has been published in the story It Came from the PULP-O-MIZER, at Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual.

You can read it here.

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I may have also mentioned that I’ve been formatting his backlist and new anthologies as eBooks, which he sells on his site.

But because I’m a books-are-made-of-paper kind of guy it’s always been my secret hope that Hughes would try publishing his books as print-on-demand paperbacks. Why? Because the eBook formats are more crude than web pages are, that’s why, and if I’m going to design a book I want it to look its best.

So you can imagine how happy I am that he’s taken the plunge into self-published paperbacks. I got to lay out the interiors and covers (though the cover illustrations aren’t mine) and I’m very happy with the way they’ve turned out.

I’m still working on the section of his site that will sell the paperbacks directly. But for now I encourage you to have a look at them at Amazon through these links. Nine Tales of Henghis Hapthorn already has its “Look Inside” previews; The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories is a couple of days younger and its previews aren’t yet ready as I write this.

I could tell you how well I like Hughes’ work. I could probably tell you until you started rolling your eyes. But who listens to me?

Listen to this guy:

“Hapthorn’s picaresque adventures, an adroit blend of SF and fantasy, pay homage both to Vance’s Dying Earth fantasies and his classic Demon Princes future history… A tremendous amount of fun.”

George R. R. Martin

See?

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You can read it here.

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Some rockets leap up majestically and plunge through the clouds to tear their way free of the Earth’s gravity and out, up and away toward the stars, where they roam in search of their destinies. Some rockets… well, they don’t.

Some other rockets shoot off the launch pad in the traditional, approved manner only to find themselves arcing back toward the planet in a way that, frankly, isn’t reassuring; and then these rockets improvise. This is one of those rockets.

As promised, I’ve put a page up at the Thrilling Tales site where backers (or anyone else) can still get a very small number of these limited edition prints, along with the paperback and hardcover books that made up some of the rewards for the project. I’ll leave that page up until I’ve finished proofing the prints. (I’m just getting ready to go to Round Two on proofing.)

While the page is live anybody at all can (and should!) place a pre-order. But I’ll close out the edition once I’m ready to order the complete run of the Voyage of the Hypatia – which is what the picture’s really called.

Here’s the order page for the prints. Orders can be placed with PayPal only.

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You can read it here.

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You can read it here.

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Retropolis Rocket Ship: the premortem postmortem

I’ve posted a postmortem update to my Retropolis Rocket Ship project page, and in a daring move I have done this before the project has died. It’s here.

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You can read it here.

]]> http://www.webomator.com/2013/05/09/new-page-at-thrilling-tales-of-the-downright-unusual-26/feed/ 0 http://www.webomator.com/2013/05/09/new-page-at-thrilling-tales-of-the-downright-unusual-26/ New in the Pulp-O-Mizer: export and import your cover settings http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WebomatorBlog/~3/JT5aYD2q8Zg/ http://www.webomator.com/2013/05/08/new-in-the-pulp-o-mizer-export-and-import-your-cover-settings/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 18:04:16 +0000 bws http://www.webomator.com/?p=1761 The Pulp-O-Mizer: now with imports and exports

The Pulp-O-Mizer‘s latest feature was added for those folks who run Pulp-O-Mizer contests; but it turns out that it’s useful for anybody who wants to move their saved covers from one device (or person) to another. Therefore, we all win!

Now you can export and import your cover settings. This is pretty much like saving and loading, except that when you save a cover’s settings they stay in the local storage of your device. Now by exporting the data you can move it from place to place, exchange it with other users, or store it in a deuterium-lined vault for future, furtive use. It’s all up to you.

The "Export" and "Import" panels appear right below the save and load controls.

 

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You can read it here.

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