Sunday, April 25, 2004  
No Media Kings news letter: Flyboy Lives!

:: Posted by max @ 4/25/2004 09:10:00 PM
Co:No Media Kings [jim@nomediakings.org]

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1. FLYBOY RE-RELEASED WITH MOVIE-STYLE TRAILERS

2. NEW NOVEL COMING OUT IN SEPTEMBER 2004

3. BBC, GUARDIAN, THIS DAY PRESS COVERAGE

4. EVERYONE IN SILICO FREE E-BOOK

5. WANT WEBHOSTING ON NOMEDIAKINGS.ORG?

6. NEW POLL: WHICH WOULD YOU TAKE PART IN?



See http://nomediakings.org or keep reading!



1. FLYBOY LIVES!

The No Media Kings edition of my first novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask has just arrived from the printer. I've decided to promote the re-release with movie-style trailers at free screenings in sixteen cities over the next two months. (It's a superhero team-up with Emily Pohl-Weary's Girls Who Bite Back, and they're in San Francisco tonight.) For the screening schedule, ordering information, and to watch one of the two trailers, check out:

http://nomediakings.org/press/flyboy_lives.html



For close readers of these mailings -- yup, this is a result of my call for vid makers who loved Flyboy! I'm not touring with it since I'm saving my energy for the fall tour for my new book, entitled...



2. AN OPENING ACT OF UNSPEAKABLE EVIL

I'll be releasing more details about it shortly, but suffice it to say that it involves the rather unusual art project of two women living in a storefront in Parkdale, and is told through blog entries posted at www.roommatefromhell.net. There's a couple more hints in the Guardian piece, below.



3. PRESS ROUNDUP

The BBC World Service interviewed me about self-publishing, hear it this week only:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice

South African national daily This Day did a huge feature on No Media Kings:

thisdayfeature.pdf

The Guardian interviewed me about blog fiction:

http://www.guardian.co.uk



4. IN SILICO NOW IN SILICO

You can download my third novel Everyone In Silico for free in a variety of formats:

free_ebook_released.html



I've released it under a Creative Commons licence which allows people not only to share the e-book but to use the characters in their own stories or even adapt it to film -- I was pretty delighted with how the Flyboy trailers turned out, considering I had nothing to do with them, and I'm hoping it opens up similar collaboration opportunities. EIS, after all, started life as an idea for a videogame...



5. NEED WEBHOSTING FOR YOUR PROJECT?

As the nomediakings.org server is approaching its second birthday, with pretty decent capibilities and stability, I've decided to offer webhosting services to people on this list for $60US or $80CAN a year. Full deets are here:

ill_be_your_server.html



6. POLL: INDIE PRESS SLASHDOT OR MESSAGE BOARD?

I'd like to develop a more participatory space for the indie press community. I'm bowled over each time with the response I get from the nearly 2000 people on this mailing list, but I feel like it could get even stronger if it wasn't so focused on me. If you're a person interested in indie press, would you prefer a news-and-commenting by multiple posters style (a la www.slashdot.com), a discussion board style anyone can post to (a la www.rabble.ca/babble/), or an e-mail list subscribers can post to?:

http://www.nomediakings.org



...the last poll indicated that 60% of the voters missed my videogame columns. Well, they're being posted bi-weekly in their new home -- recent topics in the Gutter include Seth on Charlie Brown, a great indie freeware game called N, and giant animal movies:

http://www.theculturalgutter.com



HEY! I HEARD ABOUT THE E-BOOK *WEEKS* AGO ON BOINGBOING.NET!

Yeah, I didn't want to bug you. This mailing is an irregular digest of the blog entries at nomediakings.org. But if you'd rather get the news fresh, subscribe to the more frequent email list by clicking here

    
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