Book Available -- Site Changes coming
Downtown Dandelions is now available in print. Read all about it here.
This site will be changing very shortly, so if you're in the process of reading the novel, please let me know. I'm not sure if I'll keep the entire text of the book online or not, so if you want it online, speak now or you'll have to buy it. Thanks.
2 Comments:
kevin,
found your novel today via a link from the Prism E-pistle in which your modern Christmas tale was quoted. Hurrah for the tale! I for one [as a currently unemployed, but still starving-for-meaningful-art person] would love it if you kept your novel online -- of course, you're the one who has to make rent (how does Cafepress feel about the text of the novel being online? Did you have to include this in your agreement?)
8:30 AM
Thanks for your e-mail. I'm glad you enjoyed the story in Prism's Epistle and came over to check out my site.
I'm still debating about whether or not to keep the story online. Since I feel the novel is still in some what "demo" form, it seems silly not to keep it up. However, the version you're seeing in the blog and the version in the print book are a bit different. I caught a lot of the typos and stupid mistakes for the print version, so I'm considering removing the blog and putting up a PDF of the edited story. It might be a little easier to swallow that way.
Of course I do have to pay the mortgage. The other site I'm selling the book through, Lulu, offers a PDF download version which would allow me to make a few bucks on the download. But it seems a bit smarmy to charge for a download of a barely finished story. So at this point I'm leaning towards offering the PDF for free on my site and encouraging small donations for those who are able. We'll see how that goes.
And Cafepress is truly a print-on-demand printer--they don't care what you're printing as long as it's not illegal. So I didn't have to sign any sort of agreement with them about rights to the book. They're strictly a printer and have no control over the content whatsoever.
8:49 AM
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