Nick Mamatas is a fantasist has written a number of short stories and three novels. He’s taken one of those novels, Move Under Ground<\/i>, and released it for free under a Creative Commons license<\/a>.<\/p>\n I decided to release it under a Creative Commons license for a number of reasons. The first is simply that I wish my novel to be more widely read. The second is that I am currently a student at Western Connecticut University’s MFA program in Professional Writing, and this site is a project for its class on publishing technologies. The third is a bit more mercenary: if you like this book, perhaps you’d like to buy either the hardcover or the trade paperback.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The novel is a mash-up of Kerouac and H. P. Lovecraft, and got great reviews when it came out in 2004. Why not give it a read and see if you like it?<\/p>\n And while I’m pimping SF\/fantasy\/horror stuff that’s free, John Scalzi enlisted a number of people to make an audio recording of his just-released novelette, The Sagan Diaries<\/i>, and released that audio book for free<\/a>. The novelette is set in his Old Man’s War universe and stars one of the major characters from those books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nick Mamatas is a fantasist has written a number of short stories and three novels. He’s taken one of those novels, Move Under Ground, and released it for free under a Creative Commons license. I decided to release it under a Creative Commons license for a number of reasons. The first is simply that I … Continue reading Read Move Under Ground<\/i> For Free<\/span>