Twenty plus years ago as a young, aspiring writer in Florida I wrote a novel about a young, aspiring writer in Florida and called it Concepts. I shopped the book around, and a couple agents were kind enough to read it. But it never got published.
Recently I looked at Concepts again with older eyes and from my biased perspective, it was pretty good. The book was easy to read and captured a mix of emotions I thought readers could relate to.
It seemed silly to shop around a book written in my early twenties to get published today, but I also didn’t want Concepts to remain abandoned.
Then I remembered something the Australian rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard did with one of their albums. They recorded it and declared it to be in the public domain. They said on their website, “This album is FREE. Free as in, free. Free to download and if you wish, free to make copies. Make tapes, make CD’s, make records.”
A lightbulb went off in my head, “What if I did that with Concepts?” And so I am doing this with Concepts.
I hereby disavow my copyright of Concepts and place it in the public domain.
It is free. As King Gizzard declared, “Free as in, free.”
Feel free to copy it, publish it in book form yourself, write a sequel derived from the characters, or if you’re overly ambitious even make a movie, stage play or radio drama out of it without my permission.
But first you probably want to read it for free. You can click the link below to get a pdf file of Concepts that you can read on your phone, tablet, or computer.
Download Concepts the novel here.
Any aspiring publishers that want to publish and sell their own version of the book can have at it.
If you’re a dinosaur like me who prefers to read printed books over e-books, I self-published a version through Amazon. I marked the price as low as it can be to $5 in the US. You can buy it by clicking here.
Don’t feel obliged to buy a copy to support me, I’m just as honored if you read the free e-book. I want the words to be read and Amazon provides the most economical way to get a printed book out there.
So what is Concepts about? Here’s the synopsis I wrote on the back of the book…
Jacob Fielding just wants to be famous. Is that too much to ask?
When the Nobel Prize winning author and raconteur Pablo Chiste declares Jacob’s book, Bird of a Different Feather, to be the Great American Novel it seems all our protagonist’s dreams came true. But Jacob learns the hard way that adulation and respect won’t necessarily fill that empty hole in his gut.
If that tickles your fancy, here’s the book again free for you to download.
