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LWOAK VII

Alex — Sat, 27 May 2006 18:10:27 +0000

“Lightsaber Without A Key”:http://alex.golub.name/log/the-lightsaber-without-a-key/ installment “number seven”:http://alex.golub.name/log/the-lightsaber-without-a-key#VII is now up.

LWOAK: The Awakening

Alex — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:13:35 +0000

As it turned out posting “Lightsaber Without A Key” on someone else’s server didn’t work out too well and alwaysblack and I decided it would be best if I ran the remainder of the story here on alex.golub.name. Nothing traumatic, just quicker updates this way. There is now a “Lightsaber Without A Key”:http://alex.golub.name/log/the-lightsaber-without-a-key/ page that has the entire story from beginning to end, and I’ve just added “the sixth installment”:http://alex.golub.name/log/the-lightsaber-without-a-key#VI — hopefully if I get back to posting every 10 days or so then I should have it done by early July!

LWOAK V

Alex — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:26:33 +0000

The latest installation of Lightsaber Without A Key is now available: “read it now!”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/?p=230#more-230. In fact, you can “read ‘em all”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/?cat=16 if you like.

LWOAK IV

Alex — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:49:05 +0000

LWOAK IV is now live and “you can read it at AlwaysBlack”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/?p=224 other less important projects like my dissertation and professional career as well as AB’s busy stable of writers has meant this one has been some time in coming, but I’m submitting the next one tonight if it kills me and we should pick up some more normal schedule in the future.

LWOAK III available

Alex — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:01:38 +0000

Part III of LWOAK is “now available”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/?p=215 at the always fine always black.

LWOAK pt II now available

Alex — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:57:01 +0000

“Part two”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/?p=210 is available over at Alwaysblack’s place. If anyone can come up with a better acronym than “LWOAK” or a short nickname, then please let me know.

Lightsaber without a key is now live

Alex — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:20:53 +0000

I’m very proud to announce that the first installment of the next story in the AHATPOLS series is now live on “alwaysblack.com”:http://www.alwaysblack.com. In honor of another famous pulp novel set in Hawaii, it is called “The Lightsaber Without a Key” and you can “read the first part”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/?p=151#more-151 now. I’ll try to post roughly weekly and will let readers know on this blog when new installations are posted.

Now that it is truly started I suppose I’ll have to finish it.

AHATPOLS sequel: Check!

Alex — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:14:47 +0000

I’m very pleased to announce that I will be running the sequel to “Andrew Huff And The Pool Of Lost Souls”:http://www.lulu.com/content/128306 over the winter break at “alwaysblack.com”:http://alwaysblack.com/. Alwaysblack is the author of “Bow Nigger”:http://www.alwaysblack.com/blackbox/bownigger.html, the short piece which I start out with in my Virtual Worlds class. As one of the key proponents of “New Game Journalism”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Games_Journalism his site helps push some of the best writing about video games available today. I’m very proud to have my work appear under his masthead.

Currently the piece is 19,000 words and roughly half-way done, so I expect you’ll see a drastic drop in quality as I publish rawer and rawer stuff. The stuff that is not raw is, I feel, _much_ better than AHATPOLS. I still don’t have a title for it yet, but it is set in — wait for it — Honolulu and is loosely based on the idea of a collision between the Starwars fandom and Massively Multiplayer Online Games. The main characters in this one are Rex and Kathy, although appearences are also made by Ambi (their dog), Bjork, Michel Foucault, and Senator Daniel Inouye.

Since I am now writing at Thisline, Savageminds, DGI, and now Alwaysblack, this blog will be a more personal center. I’ll alert people here when new material goes up on Alwaysblack so they can keep up w/the story by coming here. Eventually when it’s done I’ll post it here in its entirety.

Andrew Huff And The Pool of Lost Souls is now available in paper

Alex — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:00:55 +0000

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After more than a year of hard work I’m very pleased to announce that “Andrew Huff And The Pool Of Lost Souls”:http://alex.golub.name/ahatpols/ is now on sale at lulu.com. “Buy it here”:http://www.lulu.com/content/128306

I am unbelievably grateful to Andrew, Cinnamon, and Naz for all of the hard work and dedication they put into this project. Despite illness, full-time jobs, my own chrulish micromanagement at a distance and their commitment to other, more worthy projects they took the time to help make this dream come true. Thanks so much to each and every one of you. I’m keenly aware of the work’s shortcomings as only an author can be. But it is mine. Or, to be more precise, ours — proof that the intellectual excitement of the blogging scene in turn-of-the-century Chicago can produce overly-academic Jedi fan fiction of the sort rarely seen elsewhere. Also, I’d like to state for the record that I wrote this shit _before_ Whalerider, yo.

The book is published by Lulu.com under the imprint of Poreke Press, a ‘brand’ I hope to use for many print-on-demand open access pieces in the future. It is “available online for free”:http://alex.golub.name/ahatpols/ and is under an Creative Commons license so make as many xeorxes as you want, etc. etc. I’m charging slightly more than it cost to produce it in order to recoup the expense of the ISBN and to save up enough money to buy a listing in Ingram’s, the electronic catalog used by Amazon and everyone else in the world.

The next saga begins around Christmas.

The End Times Are At Hand…

Alex — Thu, 12 May 2005 06:16:50 +0000

…and soon the whole world will witness “the power of my fully armed and operational battle station”:http://alex.golub.name/pics/cover-web-02.jpg