The Free Indie Reader #1

If you’re looking for some new names in fiction to tickle your fancy, then look no further. Tom Lichtenberg has just put together a collection of short fiction by several indie authors (myself included). All of these authors write for free, their work having appeared on Feedbooks and Smashwords in the past. The Free Indie Reader No 1 is available from Feedbooks or Smashwords – just click the pic. And it’s free. Yes, FREE!

I’ve spent the Christmas holidays dibbing into this collection and I’ve enjoyed it very much. I also consider myself fortunate to find myself in the company of these very talented writers, whom probably – no disrespect to them – no one has ever heard of. I’d like to say thanks to Tom for taking this project on, and I’m happy to join with him in drawing the attention of the e-reading public to a little collection of work I’m sure they’ll find is well worth their perusal.

As fellow Indie author Paul Samael says here, the problem with self published works online is the vast and ever increasing amount of it, and trying to find something worthwhile can be a little daunting, to say nothing of discouraging, given the questionable nature of much of the work that’s out there. But believe it or not there are writers who take the medium seriously and are using it to bring to the public works of serious artistic merit, as this volume will show. I think there’s a great future for little edited collections like this in shining a spotlight in the right direction. Indeed, it may be that we’re looking here at the future of literary fiction.