I may have gone off the deep end, but hear me out...
I have decided to upload my dystopian novel THE BOOK to my website for readers to download until March 2012! For FREE!
What is most disturbing to me as an author is knowing that the 5,500 books from The People's Library that had been donated to the protesters were tossed into the back of those trucks!Now, this isn't Hitler's Germany here. I don't mean to come across like some activist who thinks there is a conspiracy to rid the protests of thought provoking literature. BUT - - - truth - - - it still happened. Dump trucks filled with books were hauled away from a peaceful protest by a dominating government agency without warning and under the cover of darkness in the middle of a media blackout. It sounds bad - it probably isn't - but it's still something to stir your blood. Are there justifiable reasons? Apparently. Is it likely that these books will find a home somewhere? I suppose. But the point is that the books had a peaceful home and they were forcibly removed.
So what then?
THE GUY FAWKES BOOK CLUB
On my website - www.m-clifford.com - I am posting a complete PDF file of my novel until March 2012. My story is about a future where all information is digital and controlled through a government issued reading device known as The Book. Everything you read is manipulated. The story surrounds one man's discovery of this manipulation in his favorite novel and the journey a small band of believers take to regain control of their freedom and the freedom of the world.
Copy this Guy Fawkes sticker. Take it. Post it on your own website along with a PDF of your book! Indie authors like me have the ability to do what they want with their books. So give them away for a short while. Maybe just until the end of the year.
The government took their books. Let's give some back.
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