Thank you to the five hundred and thirty brave people who downloaded my books over the weekend!

Self-publishing is a powerful tool for authors, and is the wave of the future.  The old publishing companies are middle-men who used to be the gate-keepers of who and what got published.  Their reign (maybe not of terror) is nearly over.  While a lot of what gets published may be so-called "vanity publishing," the future will be dominated by individual authors writing what they want to write, without the often stifling influence of large publishing houses, which have historically consumed most of the profit for their own benefit.  Especially in regards to e-book publishing, the new way of doing things is one in which an author...an artist, really...has the freedom to express him or herself, and present the written word to an audience in a way that is both more cost-effective to the consumer and at the same time environmentally conscious.  The hundreds of people who got to sample my work over the weekend did so without doing anything more than transmitting bits and bytes through the magic of the interweb...no trees were harmed in the creation and transmission of these histories and ideas.  Thanks, and bring on the future!