I think I’m in love with Smashwords. For those of you who don’t know what Smashwords is, it is a simple website where you can publish nearly anything to just about any e-reader platform there is. And unlike Amazon Digital Text Platform, you can publish your works for free, or for any price you like. There are no weird restrictions.

I have been helping my friend Harry Shannon get his books up on Smashwords for the last week or so. He’s a published author with real, honest-to-God publishable books. On a whim, he decided to publish the story he and I co-wrote (Jailbreak) to Smashwords. It was published before in two other books, and now it’s published at Smashwords. We set it to free (it’s only 8 pages long, for heaven’s sake), hoping that it will give Harry fans (and ME fans) a taste for the writing.

This, of course, makes me want to publish my other works there. I think I’m going to put up two or three of my favorites and see what kind of ratings they get. I don’t really have any fantasies of selling them to publishers, so what could it hurt?

The only requirement for publication is a cover. Good thing I have Photoshop.

Off to publish…