The first issue of the black and white comic book is available now at online comic book store Indy Planet (IndyPlanet.com). The pages will be appearing twice weekly as a webcomic at Drunk Duck (drunkduck.com) beginning January 1st.

More details at http://glowinthedarkradio.com... Direct link to the comic book: http://www.indyplanet.com/index.php?id=3144

Mike

http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/AuthorDetails.asp?authorId=117289&authorName=Michael+Luoma

There’s also preview art from my upcoming comics – including the graphic novel adaptation of VATICAN ASSASSIN!

ALIBI JONES is now also available at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Alibi-Jones-Mike-Luoma/dp/0557122155

http://glowinthedarkradio.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post.html

I also like that Smashwords lets me offer you the e-books for the price you choose to pay… for free, or for what you feel they’re worth. I’m still proving myself as a writer, so I’d rather you checked out what I’m writing than charge you for something you don’t connect with. If you like it, you can always buy another copy… just saying! Actually, people have been good, a lot of free downloads at Smashwords, but a lot of people paying between 1 to 3 bucks a book. The print copies are still selling and that’s awesome, too – thanks to everyone who’s picked up my books in paperback!

But I digress… this is a cool partnership!

Mike

Lulu is conducting monthly “sales contests” where the authors who sell the most books win cash prizes. Blatantly trying to drive traffic to Lulu.com, of course! What the heck – Didn’t cost anything, so I signed up for June’s contest. I received the email with news of the 10% discount this morning. All of a sudden the contest seemed worth entering.

My books at Lulu can all be found on this page, my Lulu “storefront”: http://stores.lulu.com/mikeluoma

I was surprised enough by the discount that I wanted to share!

As a writer, I upload my books to Smashwords and their software, known affectionately as the “Meatgrinder”, takes the original document and converts it into several different formats. Smashwords then makes the ebooks available for sale using PayPal. As the author, I can set a price for my book, allow the reader to pay what they feel like, or offer it for free. As Smashwords says on their website, they offer “…multi-format, DRM-free ebooks, ready for immediate sampling and purchase, and readable on any e-reading device.”

Decided to try it out! I’ve uploaded all three books in the “Vatican Assassin Trilogy”: Vatican Assassin, Vatican Ambassador and Vatican Abdicator, as well as my collection of poems, lyrics and spells, Synthetic Marmalade, and my book on Gnosticism and early Christianity, NEO-GNOSIS. I’ve set all five books to allow the reader to pay whatever they like for them. You’ll find them here at my Smashwords profile page: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/mikeluoma .

There’s also a link on my site, so you can just head over to http://glowinthedarkradio.com and go from there if you like.

Mike

My new column on creating comic books is up today at Cosmic Book News! Hope you can join me for this seventh installment. I’ll tell you about finishing up the second issue of Panthea Obscura with artist Juan Carlos Quattordio, relate my first con experience as a panelist, and…

There’s also a FREE CONTEST exclusively for the readers of my column, where you could win a signed copy of a rare comic book! When I was writing the column, I realized I still had one copy on the shelf of a special PREVIEW edition of Panthea Obscura Issue Two that I’d put together for my appearance at 2Pi-Con. This preview has the first half of the issue completely finished and lettered, with the second half showing the work in progress – some pages are colored but without letters, some pages are inked, some are half inks and pencils, the last page is just the rough pencils. Only five of these issues were ever printed. I’ll sign this one to the winner to make it a one-of-a-kind rarity. The column is here:

http://cosmicbooknews.com/articles/mlmakingup7

AND Panthea Obscura continues page by page FREE on the web! We’re up to page 10 of issue four – almost halfway through the book. The “gods” have taken the battle to their brother Troy, the Destroyer, in Hades! The Deep lets loose with his trident, shaking the foundations of the underworld with his mighty water control and earthquakes, surprising Troy! Read it here:

http://www.drunkduck.com/Panthea_Obscura/

You can always start at the beginning by clicking the FIRST button below the page.

I’ve also got a new column on my writing up over at Cosmic Book News: http://cosmicbooknews.com/articles/mlmakingup6

And you can read my comic book “Panthea Obscura” for free, too! New pages are going up every Wednesday and Saturday here: http://www.drunkduck.com/Panthea_Obscura/

Thanks for listening and reading!

Mike

I’m currently writing a sequel series that takes place in the same future, twenty-three years after the end of “Vatican Abdicator”, featuring BC’s son Alibi as the lead character. Raised by his “Aunt” Anita Capituna, Alibi has grown up in space. His knack for being able to read when people are telling the truth has made him valued as a mediator working for the Solar Alliance. He has some parental issues, as you might imagine, so he doesn’t use his mother or father’s last name. The first book will share its name with him: “Alibi Jones”

That’s the future. As for the past, the appendix material in the last four episodes of “Vatican Abdicator” had only been available in the hardcover book – until today! I’ve just made it available as a stand alone paperback for $9.99 or as a 99 cent pdf download. Head on over to http://glowinthedarkradio.com if you’d like to pick it up. There’s more on all my books and stuff there.

Mike

I wanted to mention to everyone that I have a new column over at http://cosmicbooknews.com called “Mike Luoma’s Making It Up”. It’s primarily focused on my comic book writing.