Archive for September, 2009

We Are Live On Smashwords!

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

For everyone out there with a PDA, Blackberry, iPhone, Kindle, or any kind of hand-held e-book reader or device, we are now publishing live on Smashwords. In their own words, “Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers and readers. We offer multi-format, DRM-free ebooks, ready for immediate sampling and purchase, and readable on any e-reading device.”

You can also go to Smashwords to read our episodes on-line, so you don’t have to download anything… the first Episode anyway. The others will only have a few sample pages available to read on-line.

We will be publishing our episodes on Smashwords AFTER it has already been published on our home website; so if you have to read the next episode right away, you can download our PDF’s from Skyboarders.com. Otherwise, if you want the next episode on your iPhone and you don’t want to mess with a PDF, you may have to wait a week or so for us to get it online at Smashwords.

The first Episode is still free on Smashwords, and the other Episodes for our stories will remain at $2 whether you buy them on our site, or on Smashwords.

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First Five Skyboarders Episodes Online!

Friday, September 4th, 2009

JelkaboardDid you ever want to fly? Can you imagine what it would be like to crouch down on a two by three foot skyboard, press the speedgrid, and take off at over a hundred miles an hour with nothing between you and the wide world? Especially if nine angry Jelka were following you?

The first five episodes from the new Skyboarders series are online, and ready for purchase. As always, the first episode of the series is free, so you can download it and give it a read to see what you think of it. We think you’ll love it, so don’t pass up the chance!

We will be releasing new Skyboarders episodes every few weeks, so sign up to the RSS feed in the upper right corner to receive updates as soon as we announce them. After you read the first one, you’ll be addicted, so get an RSS reader program (you can find them for free by searching around on the internet) or by entering the RSS feed address into your computer’s email program. Almost every email program these days has some ability to handle RSS feeds. Usually if you just click on the RSS feed box itself, your computer will open your RSS reader program or email program and ask you if you want to sign up to our feed.

And for those of you who desperately want to join the Jelka, we’re going to be opening up a storefront with screen-printed skateboard decks, mugs, t-shirts, you name it. We’ll be getting our designs together over the next few weeks and we’ll let you know when the merchandise is up for sale. Enjoy!

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The New Website Is Live!

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Skyboarders WebsiteHello and welcome to the Biggs Books SkyBlog; since Biggs Books is starting our publishing venture with the Skyboarders Series, we’ve named the blog after it. Check in here, sign up to the RSS feed (the orange box with the radio symbol, lower right corner, click on it and it will tell you what to do, or right-click on it to copy the RSS address to add to your RSS reader program) and keep track of what Biggs Books is publishing next! Want to know when the next Episode is coming out? We will be putting up a blog post for each one, with an excerpt from the chapter and whatever else we can think of.

Right now the website is finished, but we are still putting the finishing touches on getting our episodes ready for sale. You can start reading by downloading the first episode (FREE) to see if you like the story. We’ll make a blog announcement when the first five episodes go live for sale; each will be $2. You can keep reading for as long as you like, because we’ll just keep writing episodes until the story is finished!

How long will the Skyboarders Series be? Right now we have several book-length sections planned out, so you can figure the Series will be at least as long as Harry Potter, or more. This is good news for those who like to keep reading, and hate it when a good story runs out.

And when the Skyboarders series finally ends, we have several more series to put online! You’ll never run out of something to read from Biggs Books.

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