International Pixel-Stained Technopeasants

A couple of weeks ago was, of course, the first anniversary of IPSTP Day. I uploaded some songs, which a lot of you got, but some missed, and I thought that, since there wasn't a huge amount of notice, I'd make 'em available again for a couple of days:

• A gift song, "Everybody Wants A Barb" (there's also a video on YouTube!)
• Another gift song, "Kate And Jaana"
• "Something Positive", written for Randy Milholland
• "Brothers Under The Skin", commissioned by Anthrozine
• the raw audio from my concert set at EschaCon 08 on March 29 in Philly

They come down at roughly 6:00 am EDT Wednesday, so get 'em while they're hot. :) And, if you do, please leave a comment, mmkay? Thanks.

Here is my IPSTP entry, doubling as a Shakespeare's birthday present - That Sonnet, in a 400KB PDF file, for download and print (it should fit on both US letter and A4 paper without a problem) and fittingly enough, the metadata at the bottom contains hyperlinks to relevant sites. (Illo done in Photoshop 4.0 with Wacom Intuos tablet, typesetting in InDesign.)

International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, created in response to the SFWA's assertion that writers who post their stuff on the web for free are scabs against the union, is today.

I didn't know.

But I do have a contribution.

NB: I didn't find this group until today.

( Within the Lamp )

I didn't know this group existed! Silly me.

This year I freely and happily share a quick piece of fan fiction (sorry) that I could claim is an exercise in voice:

Precious


Thanks for all the great stories, folks!

Been offline for a few days, so I missed the celebration yesterday of the second annual International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. However, I am belatedly participating nonetheless.

For your viewing pleasure, I have posted my short story "Most Excellent and Lamentable" (originally published in Text:UR - The New Book of Masks, ed. Forrest Aguirre, March 2007) for free on my website.

Not only that, but I am releasing it under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Which means that you can "remix" the story (i.e. convert it into different formats, such PDF or TXT or MOBI, or scrawled by hand on papyrus with a quill pen), and create derivative works from it (a short film, a dramatic podcast reading, a song with lyrics based on the prose, artwork based on the characters, &c.) just as long as you give me credit as the original author, you don't take any money for your efforts, and you release your own work under a CC BY-NC-SA license. You don't have to ask my permission to remix the story or derive your own creative work from it, but I would appreciate receiving an email about it, so that I can link to your groovy reworking on the M.E.A.L. page.

For a story that does quite a bit of ShareAliking of its own (it relies heavily on the Commedia dell'Arte and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and there's even a tiny reference to Neil Gaiman, as well as other little bits and bobs), it seems wholly appropriate to have others try and make something of their own based on it.

Whenever I can find the time in the near future, I'll be recording the story for my podcast Lies and Little Deaths: A Virtual Anthology, accompanied by music from the Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts I-IV (which was also released under a CC BY-NC-SA license).

Nota Bene: Most of my published fiction can be found online for free; links to these stories are at the bibliography page on my website.

Postscript: NIN just today released a new single, also as a completely free download, called "Discipline." Pretty groovy stuff, and free!

(cross-posted from jlundberg.livejournal.com)

My offering for this year is again a little humor piece, hopefully of some amusement value.

Hey look a fanfic of my own character - LMAO.
This is for seajules I've owed her this for months and MONTHS.
Denver Sinclair is mine. This story is set in Neo Frisco that belongs to wedschilde. Grace belongs to seajules

( I Lost My Heart in Neo Frisco )

My pixel-stained offering is "The Herbalist's Apprentice". It's a retold fairy tale novelette based on "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" and features an herbalist, a talking chimney piece, and not a few princesses.

Full Moon Poetry can now be found on my journal. The piece is an urban fantasy and it's been hanging around waiting for a re-write for a couple of years. In absence of any new work, it's at least new to the world-at-large. =)

Cory Doctorow posted the blurb I sent in:

Tim sez, "Last year International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day was created by author Jo Walton in response to remarks by Howard V. Hendricks opposing 'the increasing presence in our organization [the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America] of webscabs, who post their creations on the net for free'. Today is the first anniversary of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day and the celebration continues. Authors and artists, including notable singer/songwriter Tom Smith, are again celebrating by releasing some of their works into the wilds. One place you can find them is at a LiveJournal community set up for this new holiday." Link (Thanks, Tim!)

Thanks again to everyone who has contributed!

Well...we didn't get anything completely "new" posted to Robert Reed's site, but we did finally finish reformatting all his stories that appeared on scifiction.com before its demise last summer.

The latest two re-postings (just today) are:

Hidden Paradise and
Man for the Job

A list of all of Bob's stories that are available for reading on-line (mostly for free) is at:

Bob's F.A.Q. page

Congrats and warm fuzzy pixels to all the participants this year!

Scott Clark
(webmaster for Robert Reed's official website: http://www.robertreedwriter.com)

I have posted a bit about the day itself in my journal.

And my free offering is a short story originally printed in my college literary magazine and now reprinted on earthwalked and at my website:

To Live by Deborah J. Brannon

Enjoy! And happy second annual International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day!

Here's my contribution to the annual fun of free fiction. It's me reading a little piece of flash called "Bob's Penis." It's not really "unsafe" for work, but it does have a penis in it that does weird things.

(x-posted from mkhobson.livejournal.com)

I'm offering up a previously published short, Night of the Vampire Scare. 

In honor of International Pixel-Stained Techo-Peasant Day, a flash-length story I don’t ever expect to place anywhere, mainly because it’s sort of formatted like a script (and sort of not)!

LOOP
By Gemma Files
859 words
Copyright 2000

( Read more... )
Enjoy.;)

"Crime of Passion"
a Dragon Precinct story
by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Enjoy!

(Also, there's always last year's entry: "Wild Bill Got Shot.")

Here's a re-posting of some information I put on the Electric Velocipede Facebook group page the other day:

For those of you in this group that haven't had a chance to read a copy of the magazine, here are some links to free fiction online:

From Issue Six:
"A Keeper" by Alan DeNiro
http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/akeeper.htm

"Morris, His Self" by Michael Simanoff
http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/morris.htm

From Issue Nine:
"The Chiaroscurist" by Hal Duncan
http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/chiaro.htm

"Another Day" by Mark Rich
http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/another.htm

"Hard Time" by Mark W. Tiedemann
http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/hardtime.htm

"A Taste for Flowers" by Jay Caselberg
http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/flowers.htm

"Braids of Glass" by Jonathan Laden
http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/braids.htm

"Strange Incidents in Foreign Parts" by Anna Tambour
http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/incidents.htm

"The Euonmyist" by Neil Williamson
http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/euonym.htm

"Solipsister" by Jason Erik Lundberg
http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/solip.htm

From Issue Ten:
"The Way He Does It" by Jeffrey Ford
http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/wayhedoesit.htm

Enjoy! The Jeffrey Ford story was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, so that's a good place to start. :)

My contribution to this year's festivities can be found here.

I have just sent the IPSTP community lj link into BoingBoing to see if we can stir up some attention. I recommend that any and all of you who want to keep our new holiday alive, then please contact BoingBoing and similar blogs and see if we can get them to post an article today.

Thanks,
-TheTurboNerd (a.k.a. your normally silent community moderator)

Here's my short story "Snowflakes."