Comments on: Question: Should I Offer My Book for Free?

By: Trying to Be Awesome « writing in the water

Trying to Be Awesome « writing in the water — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:00:54 +0000

[...] June 5, 2009 at 10:00 pm (blogging, books, creativity, inspiration, rejection, rules, support, the novel, the writing life, wishful thinking) Dennis Cass is awesome. So, what do you think of his thoughts on giving your book away for free? Read those thoughts here. [...]

By: denniscass

denniscass — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:25:39 +0000

Thanks for the link, mapelba.

I like what Gaiman says about how the problem is that not enough people read for pleasure.

I also wish you the best of luck in your own free-ness. Let me know how it goes.

By: mapelba

mapelba — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:31:36 +0000

Neil Gaiman ( http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/02/nature-of-free.html ) has written a lot about giving away books for free. He has the luxury of making a living as a writer–which he admits too–but he makes a good case for doing such a thing. He wrote several blog entries about it. I’m pasting one in here for what it’s worth.

But considering everything you’ve said here, I think I’m going to run with the idea. Run until I fall down.

By: CJ West

CJ West — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:52:49 +0000

Thanks Dennis. I agree that free sometimes works to get your name recognized. I have a novel that has gotten great reviews and was optioned for film, but was still largely undiscovered. I started offering this book for free and it has been downloaded over 30,000 times. Now it is getting read and feeding readers to my other novels.