DROIDMAKER book now downloadable, FREE!

APRIL 18, 2012
And today, finally... DROIDMAKER is available in the iBookstore, for iPad. I have to say -- it's amazing in this format. It's the medium for which this book was created. The images alone are worth the $10 price tag. Get it in iTunes today! Thanks.





MARCH 9, 2012 POST SCRIPT
Here at SXSW, I'm officially announcing the release of the Kindle DROIDMAKER for only $9.99! It's color, it's searchable, and it's fan-tastic!
Droidmaker on Kindle.

JANUARY 17, 2012 POST SCRIPT

If you've just arrived here, i suppose you've heard you could get a free PDF of DROIDMAKER here. That was true until yesterday. I posted the book here a few years ago and have given away many. But tonight I wanted to announce that I'm creating an affordable ePub for the book, and will release Kindle and iBook versions very shortly. I've been busy recently helping my brother out by publishing his new fantastic book "How To Write Groundhog Day" (which will be available on Kindle on, obviously, Groundhog Day -- Feb 2, 2012).  Like Droidmaker on Facebook and i'll let you know the moment the digital Droidmaker is available. Thanks.


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I'm not really sure how this will go over, but i've decided to make my book DROIDMAKER downloadable in its entirety, effective today. It's a long book (518 pages), and I still recommend going to Amazon and getting yourself a copy (it's how you can pay for this "shareware"), but below are links to get PDFs of the book: I've divided it into the three "acts" that makes up the saga.

Act 1: Intro plus Chapters 1-6 [removed 4/18/12]
Act 2: Chapters 7-17 [removed 3/16/11]
Act 3: Chapters 18-26, Index [removed 11/11/09]

(UPDATE 3/16/11: The time has come to take all the freebies down except for Act 1. Act 1 is both great and nicely representative of the book. If you like it, please head to Amazon for a copy!)

I don't know how long I can keep these links available, so get it while you can. I hope you'll enjoy it - Droidmaker is really the only work of its kind - and I hope you'll feel free to share it with like-minded Star Wars/George Lucas fans, computer graphics folks, videogamers, movie geeks, and technophiles. The reviews on Amazon have been quite wonderful (both Alvy Ray Smith AND Ben Burtt rave there) but your feedback is always welcomed.

Thank you, and enjoy!

JULY 2 POST SCRIPT --

Amazing! In just a couple days the book has been downloaded thousands of times, and i've decided i'll leave this accessible at least through the holiday weekend. Other than a short note from the publisher asking what the hell I was doing, the only emails i get are from you readers submitting typos and errata you've found. THANK YOU. Months of professional proof-reading and fact-checking, and years of book readers, and in a single day you've found more little errors than all of them. I have now made corrections to PDF 1, but will let you know if i adjust the other sections...

JULY 22 POST SCRIPT --

Over 15,000 downloads. Wow. I mentioned that "donate" button on the left, yes? Leave me your email address along with any donations so I can thank you personally. BTW: to answer some of your questions here - no, i don't plan on attending Comic Con nor Siggraph, but i am often available to give presentations to groups. Leave me a note about that as well.