Hey everyone!

How're things going in the run up to Christmas? Good? Bad? Indifferent?

In this update:

Comic stuff
Shop - major sale
Life stuff

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Comic
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For bi-weekly doses of silliness, check out my webcomic, Trouble Down Pit:

http://comic.matazone.co.uk

It's now got over 220 strips on there, including an epic sci-fi
retelling of Romeo & Juliet, so if you've not been reading then now's
a great time to catch up! The first strip is here:

http://comic.matazone.co.uk/2006/08/22/trouble-up-top/

You can navigate through them all by using the 'Next' link at the top
of the page.

It's even got a handy bookmark function for when you're reading
through them all. Below each strip, on the right hand side there's a
calendar, and there's a 'tag page' button. Next time you visit you can
click the 'goto tag' button and you'll be right back where you were.
It's like using a time machine, except without 21.1 gigawatts of power
being required.

There's also the RSS feed to inform you of updates as soon as they're
online, and I've even added buttons beneath each blog-esque post below
the strips so that you can post links to the strips straight to your
facebook , digg, and various other pages. Cool, eh?

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Shop - major sale
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I'm running a major sale in my shop:

http://www.matazone.co.uk/shop/

Bags are 50% off, T-shirts and tops are all £10, and I've updated the
exchange rate now so people shopping in the US can reap the rewards of
all our failings economies and get far better prices. Hooray for the
death of the global market! ... Err... Moving on...

I've also got my dedicated corset shop where everything is always 10%
off. Bargain!

http://corsets.matazone.co.uk/

While I'm writing about shopping, Amazon.com and .co.uk search boxes
are below all the animations and comic strips, so if you're shopping
there, please remember to start your trip using a search from my site
and my site gets a donation for your shopping! Thanks!

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Life stuff
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Those of astute memory may remember that this time last year I was
heavily into writing a novel. I finished the first draft, took many
months of editing to break it into a good shape... And then some
bugger stole my laptop. Fortunately I had a back-up of my first draft,
but I've got to do all the editing again! Silly Mata has learnt his
lesson about backing up, but it was a hard way to do it.

Hopefully by this time next year my novel will be in shops, assuming
the edit goes well and someone decides to publish it. When this
happens I'll make sure you all get updated so you too can own a lovely
bit of physical booky stuff from Matazone.

Other than that, life is just peachy, and I'm living in the beautiful
English city of Oxford. Life really is good. I wish you all peaceful
and happy winter/Christmas/yule/appropriate festival thingy, and a
happy new year (except if you're Chinese and are waiting a few more
months for the new year).

See you in 2009... The future awaits! Woo!

Mata