Wonder City Stories: Landing Page

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What is Wonder City Stories?

Wonder City Stories is an ongoing serial that explores a richly-populated superhero comic book universe through the eyes of a group of compelling characters who aren't usually seen in comic books: women, elderly people, POCs, LGBTQI people, and more.

It's a universe where the equivalent of Superman is a short, round, middle-aged black woman, and its version of Captain America is a homeless, elderly veteran living out of her van. Where superpowers don't guarantee special treatment, money, or success, and where time continues to flow forward so that most people age and have to live with consequences, with no reboots or retcons.

Wonder City Stories is a cyberfunded creativity project. Cyberfunded creativity allows writers and other artistic creators to sell their goods directly to audiences online, and further allows people to support creators they admire, which encourages those creators to produce more of what their audience members enjoy.

The first two volumes of the web serial have been published as novels, and Wonder City Stories was a 2015 Lambda Literary Award finalist!


You can find links to buy them in paperback or electronic form at judemclaughlin.com.

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Getting Started in Wonder City

The Table of Contents
The Cast of Characters

Ways to Read WCS
Reviews of Wonder City Stories

Links to Online Serial Fiction and Webcomics

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How to Help Power Wonder City Stories

I started writing Wonder City Stories because I wanted to read comic-book-style stories with solid female characters, characters of color, and queer characters, and there weren't many around. I hope that these stories and characters help fill that gap for some of my readers, and provide entertainment for everyone who reads them.

However, the stories can't happen without refills of the brainjuice that powers them! So here's what I'd love to feed the power grid, so I can keep the writing going. If you do any of these things, you are encouraging me to write more.

1. Feedback! Comments to me, on Dreamwidth or personal email (jude DOT mclaughlin AT gmail DOT com) are greatly appreciated.
2. More readers! Please feel free to rec Wonder City Stories to anyone you think might enjoy it.
3. Reviews! Especially for the novel on Amazon, if possible. Honest ones: I hope that means they're pretty good, but definitely honest.
4. Vote for us at Top Web Fiction!
5. Link WCS on your blog or website!
6. Donate! This is cyber-funded creativity. I'm happy to accept tips.

7. Buy the novel!

And if you don't do any of that, please keep reading Wonder City Stories anyway. That's what it's for.

Comments

[cassowary]

Has the Wonder City Stories project been abandoned?

[heavenscalyx]

Sorry for the long silence. No, I'm still trying to get my writing gears going again -- a terrible job tanked my efforts, like it did for my earlier hiatus, only harder. I'm editing through volume 3 right now to self-publish it, as I did for the first two novels, and hoping that will get me going again. :}

If it's any help, it took me ten years to finish writing my novel-length fanfic, and a lot of people thought I'd abandoned it multiple times, but I did finish it finally. I expect I'll be back here as soon as I'm able.

Thanks for your support!

[cassowary]

I remember Archimage fondly, and recently reread it. I'm glad to hear that Wonder City Stories is still continuing.

[(Anonymous)]

I just binged the whole lot. It was excellent and I love it. I've recommended it to a bunch of people because it's hard to find good fiction with this focus. Thank you for writing and I hope your life is traveling well.