Recently I put Disappearances up on Smashwords. I plan to keep it up for free on scribd, feedbooks, and my site, but I wanted to get into new markets with other readers – mostly Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and the iBookstore, and that meant putting it on Smashwords.
Even though it’s available for free, I listed it for a price, $4.99. I did this because:
People have an aversion to free content. The idea is that if the work was better, the content would not be free. In a real marketplace, …

I’m excited to announce that I will soon launch a new novel on my site and out to the web at large. The book is called Disappearances and it has been long in coming, the product of years of work, and I’m nearly bursting at the seams to finish and get it out to readers.
Disappearances tells the story of a young man mentally disconnected. Early one morning he’s awoken from a restless sleep by a plane crash outside his apartment window. Rushing down to the scene, the young man …