Get Your Free (as in beer) Ebooks Here!

When I set this page up back in 2008 or so, the ebook market was just starting to emerge into the mainstream. The Amazon Kindle had just gone on the market. I had one. This, as much as anything, was my overriding reason to get my novels out into ebook format. This is also how I wound up doing a stint as the ebook editor for Flying Pen Press. We looked at ebooks more as a way to advertise our paper books than as a product in and of themselves, and so when I asked permission to put the books up on my website for free (as in beer), FPP said sure, why not?

Times have changed. For small presses and independent writers, ebooks are now a serious product, sometimes the main product.

So I was going to quietly sunset this page, since my new work is in ebook format from the getgo. Then I looked at my Google Analytics and discovered that, after the front page of the site, Downloads is the second most popular page.

What I'm going to do is this. I'm going to leave Looking Glass and Irreconcilable Differences here in both mobipocket/kindle and epub formats. Still for free. I'm going to continue giving away my PHP code to anyone who wants to see it for free. I'm going to put links here so you can get to the newer work, just like you could with the Kindle versions before, but the new ones will cost you $2.99. Just like the Kindle version went up to.

So below, please find links to my new, non-free ebooks, along with my first two novels, which are still here for free. Please note that the free ebooks below are free-as-in-beer. Which is to say they're still copyrighted, all rights reserved, etc. etc., I'm just giving you free copies of them here. The CSS and PHP files? You're free to use them as you see fit, so long as you don't make me liable for them.

• Download my Quick and Dirty Guide to Guns for Writers in DOC format.
• Download my Quick and Dirty Guide to Guns for Writers in EPUB format.
• Download my Quick and Dirty Guide to Guns for Writers in MOBI/Kindle format.
• Download BASE.CSS, the main CSS used by this site.
• Download FUNCTIONS.PHP, where more bits of this site are.
• Download CODEMONKEY.PHP, the PHP script doing the downloads.