I think for every Fourth of July since I published Political Pies – my collection of short stories of a political nature – I’ve had a free sale for it. On one hand, it’s hard to make money if you give your books away for free, but on the other hand the point of Political Pies is to get people to start thinking about politics in the hope we could start working on some of the problems we face to make a better world. I’ll sacrifice a few sales for that.
And over the last few
years, I’ve also had voter registration drive … sales. Basically, if you’re an American citizen over
18, all I ask is after you download the free copies of my books, you register
to vote or check your voter registration to make sure it’s up to date. Democracy only works if the people
participate, and the first step to participating is to register to vote. And the sooner you register, or fix any
problems with your registration, the easier it will be come Election Day. To register or check your registration, you
can go to your state’s website, which should have the necessary information.
If you’re not an American
citizen, you can still download my books for free. All I ask is you participate in your nation’s
politics.
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The following three
ebooks will be free to download from Saturday July 1st, through Wednesday July
5th. I hope you enjoy, and I hope you
vote in the next election.
On The Day, for reasons
unknown, people began changing. They went to sleep as their old selves and woke
in their beds in different bodies: bodies that had belonged to other people.
And each time they fall asleep, they wake in a new body. Set months later, “The
Only Certainty” follows Derrick Gorton on an average day in this new world as
he deals with food shortages, the semi-collapse of society, and how to finish
his latest novel.
Everybody complains about
politics, but does anyone do anything about it? My attempt to do something
about it is to collect forty of my short stories with a political element into
my Political Pies anthology. The stories are either politically neutral or
equally condemning of the national parties. Instead of trying to sway you to
one ideology or another, my goal is to just get people thinking about politics
in the hopes a rose might grow out of all the political manure.