You can now download a free copy of my short story The Easy River to Success for free from either Feedbooks or Smashwords. Set in a fantasy world of dark magic, Benetus, the King’s chancellor, fears the return of a rival he had thought banished from court. Benetus turns to the help of demons to [...]

Weird and unlikely things happen when you distribute your work for free over the internet. And it seems that my story The Human Factor has been downloaded from Feedbooks and uploaded to Scribd. I’m not sure how I feel about this. I guess the guy who did just liked the story, which is good and [...]

Forged in Blood was previously known as Tale of Tiel and published at Feedbooks, where it has been downloaded 337 times to date (16 Aug 2010). It is now a Kindle eBook available at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk Here’s an extract: I tell a tale of long ago, of the daughters of stoop shouldered Tiel, god [...]

The Honor of Rome is published for the Kindle. For Flavius there is only one way to return honour to his family name – glorious deeds done in battle and his own death. The Roman army in Macedonia is on the verge of a great victory that will finally give it control of Greece. But [...]

As well as going over a 1,000 downloads this weekend, my short story The Human Factor, has also got onto the second page of results for Science Fiction in Feedbooks! I guess getting higher up the most popular list for certain tags has probably increased the popularity. I’ve certainly seen downloads actually increase the longer [...]

So far in my Smashwords and Feedbooks adventures I have published three stories on Feedbooks and two on Smaswords. I found it quite interesting to compare the two. Of the two stories on Smashwords, one I am charging for, Bisclavret (The Werewolf), and one, The Human Factor, I have made free. On Feedbooks I have [...]

One of my reasons for publishing some short stories on Feedbooks and Smashwords was to get them out to a wider audience and hopefully to elicit some feedback. As a writer I want to write for an audience and not just myself. I confess that it gives me a real buzz when someone says they [...]

After some positive experiences distributing free short stories with Feedbooks, I thought I should take a look at the other widely used option for self-publishing ebooks: Smashwords. Smashwords is much more orientated to authors who want to get paid for their work. Therefore it seems to attract longer pieces as well – I guess it’s [...]

I am really enjoying using Feedbooks over the last couple of days. My first story, The Human Factor, has now had over 80 downloads, which I think is fairly awesome really. It does seem that Science Fiction seems to do quite well. My other stories, The Honor of Rome and Tale of Tiel, which are [...]

Had some fun yesterday publishing two of my older short stories on Feedbooks. Both The Human Factor and The Honor of Rome never found publishing homes, so I decided there was no harm in publishing them via Feedbooks. It’s quite interesting as you immediately get to see how many people have downloaded your titles, and [...]