In 2 weeks Dragonmun Studios will be setting up at Oasis 25!

Dude… I don’t even know how I missed this one before. It started when I was 5 and on top of that the Orlando Area Science Fiction Society has been around for even longer. They even have a scholarship fund! *flail* I totally wish I knew about this group of awesome people sooner. Thanks to all of you at MegaCon that directed me this way! I  can’t wait for the show!

I know that I’m a little late getting these uploaded, but the days since PariahCon 2012 have been nuts here at Dragonmun Studios as we’ve hit a landmark deadline with one of our projects. I won’t go into detail on that as it’s not the focus on this post, but I can promise you that it’s awesome! :B

PariahCon! I had NO idea what to think going into this convention and yet, I think it was that lack of expectation that made it so fun for me. In a nutshell, it was a very small convention, but totally rocked that everyone=friends thing. My only complaint about the whole event orients around the parking garage outside of the hotel. Words cannot express how creepy that place was.

Photos! I got a few photos of people that stopped by the table in costume. I apologize that they look like they were taken with a good potato, but I had totally forgotten about my real camera with the upcoming comic deadline. Anywho, the Facebook gallery for this event can be found by clicking here.

I’m still at PariahCon, but this is worth posting about.

I recently contacted our printers in an attempt to find out why there has been such a massive delay in getting the eBook versions of our comics online. The response, was actually a little shocking.

Here’s what they wrote:

We have over 5000+ books we have to make files for and upload.
We are trying to get everyone list as soon as we can.

Since I know that they’re doing everything from creating the ebook files, to setting up the individual product pages by hand, I found myself feeling a little bad for trying to put a rush on them. Unfortunately, not having an eBook option hurts those of you that held off buying the print comics in favor of a digital format. Because of this, I branched out and  started looking at other ebook publishing services:

Drivethrough Comics was the first option that I looked at and actually, I still might go with them eventually. I’m just unable to do anything with them at this time because of some funky error with uploading files to them.

Graphicly was another option that was actually provided to us on our facebook. I fell in love at them, but not with them. Everything uploaded to their service unfortunately requires an individual [digital] ISBN number to be purchased in order to be published. Purchasing 11 of these is currently out of our budget.

At this point I was about to give up and just wait when I noticed Wordpress flashing a message at me to update Marketpress Lite (the e-commerce plugin I have running the store). I clicked on the update and viola! I aquired the ability to distribute digital files from my own storefront! AWESOME!

The store listing  for the eBooks can found here, or by clicking on Store > eBooks at the top.

Because I don’t have the fancy programs to convert the files into other things (and am apparently to dumb to figure out how to do it manually), the only format that these are offered in is PDF (as it’s the most universal digital format). If you guys run into any problems with this, please let me know.

Every year, your local comic shop partakes in Free Comic Book Day. The name pretty much describes it, and we’re participating too!

Last year we released the first Sivoa: Book of Alecto graphic novel (for purchase), which included a bonus prequel chapter and new set of character biographies.  We are now offering these extras as a free downloadable PDF!

Click here to download it! :D

Hello everyone!

Anime Festival Orlando just activated their artist alley registration forms! If you’re an artist looking to get in in this show, please consider filling these out soon!

Dragonmun Studios will not be at this show in the regular sense, but we will have a presence there as I’m now working the artist alley from the convention side of things (I know, I know, took me long enough XD ).

Please don’t write requests for information here. If you have any questions or comments about AFO’s artist alley, please forward them to afoartistalley@aol.com.