Don’t forget to check out the new Devan shorts, if you missed them ( see previous blog post )

I just opened up the downloads section on the forum, and I’ve uploaded three titles.

What’s in that section right now are Kindle .prc files of “Casting off Convention”, “King Thakkorias”, and “Blackhawk Hall” as well as RTF ( Real Text Format ) versions of all three stories.

Provided I’ve done everything correctly ( *laugh* ) you can download the Kindle versions to your Kindle and carry them with you wherever you go to read at your leisure.  Blackhawk Hall includes all 6 chapters in a single file.  Casting has all three of the chapters from SOL ( It was a single submission at Lit )  Thakkor is a new edit with a couple of updated style changes that I just did last night.

SOL readers already had these options, but I’ve had many Lit readers request portable and offline versions of my stories.  Plus, the cover images are attached to my kindle versions, where the SOL versions don’t have it.

The RTF versions are the same full stories, but in a cross-platform document format that should be readable on just about any computer.  It’s a way you can download the stories and read them at your leisure.

As time moves on, I’ll add more of my stories to this section, until they’re all up there.  New stories won’t appear in the download section for at least a month after release, in order to give them time to perform and draw feedback on the websites where I post.

For the time being, it’s set for a maximum of two downloads at once, and five downloads per day.  I’ll adjust that as necessary for bandwidth/convenience.

Odds are that the really long stories ( Danica, especially ) will be in multiple volumes.  When each part of Danica is around 20k words, that would be one bloody HUGE file.  The whole story will still be downloadable, but it just won’t be a single file.

Eventually, this new section will also provide another means to audition or donate for my LST3Ks.  RejectReality stories will also be added to the download section.

If you have a Kindle reader and don’t mind downloading a couple, grab Casting and Thakkor to compare them, please.  Casting keeps the white space for posting online, while Thakkor eliminates it.  Looking at them, I can’t decide which looks better, and I don’t have an actual device to test them on ( using the download version for PC )  So let me know which you prefer, for future reference.

As mentioned earlier, Thakkor has a new edit with some stylistic changes.  It still has the head-hopping of the original, to maintain that early story flavor *laugh*  This is already up at SOL, has been submitted to Lushstories ( as RR ), and is in the queue at Literotica.

I also edited a seriously embarrassing mistake in Danica 18 where I used a modern turn of phrase “like a broken record” that had to GO!  Thanks to the reader who pointed it out after all these years *laugh*  This edit is already live at SOL, and in the queue at Lit.

I finally got around to putting up a new edit at Lit for Documentary:Cougar as well.  All this does is put in blockquote for the documentary sections, now that blockquote renders correctly on Lit again.

More to come as I finally get over a few bad months and get back to work.  Despite the lateness, I’m still writing on “Friend of the Wood”, which was to be my Earth Day story for this year.  If I can finish it before it gets much later, I’ll post it up despite having missed the contest and Earth Day itself.

Still fighting the last chapter of Lowborn, and struggling for the right opening to SOTM 19, but I am working on them.