I am releasing this book online under a permissive and open license. Traditional copyright attitudes restrict your rights as a reader; I am using my copyright to grant you certain rights, such as downloading it, reading it, and passing it on. I would encourage you to skip to the part at the end of the book marked “License” for a bit more detail around what this entails, as well as for a link to the full license text.

I am taking this approach for the release of my first novel for one big reason: I am essentially lazy and irritable. New authors are treated worse than hamsters at the hands of literary agents and publishing houses. I have written a book, why should I waste my time tailoring my book proposal to an agent who has a section on their website dedicated to alerting would-be authors to “what pisses him off”? Why should I have to tailor a synopsis for each agent? A one page synopsis, a ten page extract, the first and the last chapter, a one page paper on what books mine will compete against, a bio, a statement of motivation, a blueprint for a perpetual motion machine. That isn’t what I do; I write silly stories. I lost patience rather quickly with the established way of getting a book out there, and I chose myself an open license for this work.