It’s taken me almost a year since I first mentioned it to my agent, Lisa, and publisher Antony Farrell, but at last I’ve got around to putting my first novel The Fabulists, online for free downloaded under a Creative Commons Licence (or License, if you are American).
Initially I’ve posted it in WordPress, one chapter per post. (There are fifteen chapters), but it will soon be available on the main Fabulists page on this website in MS Word, Open Office and PDF.
It will also be available on a new website created for Irish writers by poet Patrick Chapman and myself. More about this around May 1st.
Many thanks especially to Antony Farrell of the Lilliput Press and to my former agent Lisa Eveleigh for not only giving me permission to do this, but for being enthusiastic about the idea.
Hard copies (in trade paperback) are still available from Lilliput if you’d prefer to read it that way.
Looking forward to reading my first novel online! Well done.
Jimmy