It is the end of winter, summer is coming. The weather today is nice, I drove home from work with the top open. One of the simple pleasures in my life. Driving with the warm wind in my hair.
Summer is when people read books. They lie on sunbeds on beaches, besides swimming pools in foreign countries or in their own back yard or on their balcony. It is a time to relax, disappear into other worlds, enjoy that we get this time on earth.
I think everyone that has followed me and my writing for any amount of time will understand that I’m not in this for the money. While I appreciate every single reader and absolutely love seeing positive reviews, I have a day job that provides a salary. Writing novels is a passion. Sometimes frustration, but always passion.
Recent years have been strange, with a pandemic, inflation and geopolitical unrest. We should be nice, we should help each other where we can. And I can give my books away for free. I have a job and don’t need the royalties, but I love the feedback.
It is with this in mind that I decided to give my books away for free this summer. Until the end of August, you will get a coupon code when subscribing to the newsletter. The books in question are the three novels in the original English language and the Icelandic translation of Under the Black Sand, which I translated myself. All eBooks, obviously.
Some say giving away your work for free makes it worthless. I’m not sure I agree with that. A lot of things seem to have less value than they used to. We subscribe to streaming services, making all the world’s music available to us. I remember a time when aquiring an album was an undertaking. You had to save up for it, and that was what you had. You couldn’t listen to an artist’s whole catalogue. Just that album. Movies, a similar story. We stream them whenever we want to.
Doesn’t make them worthless. A good album is a good album, even if you don’t pay much for it. A novel you got for free is no less entertaining than if you’d been charged a good sum of money for it.
Giving my books away for free does not make them worthless, but your feedback and review after you’ve read them is priceless. As is your act of subscribing to the newsletter.
Let me know if you’ve read any of my novels and what you thought. And most of all…
Have a lovely summer!
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