*chuckles*

Okay, so I was looking at what search queries people typed in google to find us in the past year. Obviously, most people find us by searching for "Chasing the Sunset".

The second most common result, however, is variations of "800 word story"

This takes them to this story that I wrote ages ago (which, to be honest, isn't very well written in the first place). It was later used as the background for "Big Sister" in the valley of the faeries storyline in CtS.

Now, I'm sure our readers are intelligent and can guess what people are looking for, very specific, an "800 word story". In total in the past year, over 600 people came looking for that.
I'm pondering being sneaky and adding the following text to the story, but make it only show up if the text was copied:

"If you are a teacher reading this, your student copied this story from my website and didn't reread it after pasting it. What a shame."

What do you guys and gals think? Too evil? :)

Hah, go for it! Will teach em to pay more attention!

Aww, come on. Plagiarism is the most sincere form of flattery!

Oh, and some teachers are pretty smart. Some of the search results were for text that appears in the story.

P.S.: A lot of people seem to have come to us wondering who the main character of chasing the sunset is. If you're one of those and you meant our comic: It's technically Leaf, but Myhrad, Ayne and Feiht are pretty main too.

If you happen on the site today (18 jan) then you might notice all comments are blacked out. This is our little protest against SOPA, a US legislation that would have dire consequences for the internet if it passes.

Chasing the Sunset is hosted in the US, but since neither Alien or I live there, I think we fall under the provisions for "foreign sites". This would mean that a prosecutor in the US could force search engines and other sites to delist us or even our host to take us down, if a lawsuit is brought to us (obviously we lack the resources to fight any complaints in US court).

Of course it's very unlikely anybody would go after us, but that doesn't change the principle. SOPA is a dangerous law and I urge our US readers to contact their representatives and express their opposition to it.

For more details, check this page on wikipedia (one of the few wikipedia pages working today:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

Comments will be restored tomorrow. Happy censorship day!

All right so .... I happened on some comics forum today and saw a link to a book printing site that was actually affordable in small quantities.
Still, before we go through all the effort of collecting the strip into a book(s) (and it would be a LOT of work, at least for the earlier strips), I'd like to know how many people would be interested in buying a Chasing the Sunset book at the following prices.

Books would be 8.5" by 11" (about 22cm by 27 cm), printed full colour. I couldn't find info on the cover, so probably softcover. This is print-on-demand so delivery times would be pretty long (about a month for cheapest shipping option)

Option one: 100 page books
There would be 3-4 books with 100 pages each, having about 200 strips each, plus some bonus material.

Price per book: around $15 without shipping.

Option two: 350 page book
This would be every strip made so far in one big book. 350 pages with about 700 strips and some bonus material.

Price: around $40 without shipping.

So, would anybody be interested?

I would probably buy at least one of the 100 page books.

I would definitely buy at least one 100 page book.

I would definitely buy all three 100 page books.

I would probably buy the big 350 page book.

I would definitely buy the big 350 page book.

I would definitely buy whatever book or books you release!

Wait till the end of the comic and then bundle it into a big book.

I don't want any books, but I want to see what others have voted.

Please, please, please give your opinion either in comments to this news post or on our forums. We really need to know from you guys here. If you want an option that isn't listed, say so too!

Excerpt from "The bestiary of The World That Is" by Wizard Ehm-Al.

When I created my lists of creatures to study, it was with some hesitation that I added Faerie Dragons, and who could blame me: if the stories were true, they were a cross between faeries and dragons (with all the obvious implications) and if they weren't, it would be a wild jabberwock chase. Personally, I believed the whole species a fabrication of somebody who misspelled “fiery dragon” and didn't think I'd ever encounter one.

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Extract from "Who is Who in The World That Is" by Wizard Ehm-Al.

Much could be said on the subject of the Hell's Pixies, although in truth if one removed all the curses the written material would be considerably shorter.

Note, please, that by curses I mean not merely vulgar language: so many malignant spells have been levelled at this group that should all of them have found their mark, the results would be, shall we say, unpleasant? Of course almost none of these curses worked, or at least worked for very long. The clue is in the name, after all: we are dealing with pixies.

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