Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Reid Kemper's Blog Swap

This CC BY-NC 2.0 licensed image was modified from a picture by Evan Hamilton.
Do you have great blog posts that are buried in your blog and deserve more attention? Or do you have a new post that you think will be great for a wider audience? Or perhaps you want variety on your blog by sharing a post someone else wrote -- minus any hassle? If so, I designed this blog swap to help you out.

How it works:
1. Enter your website URL in the list below to create a link.
2. Grab a post from my list of blog posts and use it for your blog.
3. Mention in the comments below which post you want to share in return.

Alternatively, if you want to swap with other bloggers, you may:
1. Enter your website URL in the list below to create a link.
2. Post your own blog swap on your blog.
3. List on your blog which posts you want to swap with those who participate.

You can swap on any day. Think of it as reciprocal guest blogging.

Enter here:


If you swap posts with me, I'll pick out one of your posts you listed and publish it on my blog. You may even write a new post meant for swapping. I'll credit you for writing the post I share and will link to your blog, so be sure to do the same.

I will not publish any posts that have obscenity, controversial topics or anything else I don't feel comfortable sharing. Please provide a variety of posts that are not time sensitive to choose from. For instance, if you have a post promoting a book you published, this would be a great way to promote your work. It's also great to spread helpful tips or resources for others. You can choose which day to participate.

You may use any post of mine before Dec. 1, 2011, for swapping, but below is a list of posts I recommend that are not time sensitive or are, to my knowledge, still relevant. Feel free to change any timely information (such as "today") and make edits.

Resources:
Recommendations:  
Reviews:
Collaboration: 
Interests: 

Notice about my website:

Creative Commons License
My website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License, which means you are free to share any of my posts without having to ask me, regardless if you participate in this blog swap. But you must attribute the work to me and link to this site. You also can not use it for commercial purposes or alter the work (unless I say otherwise). Posts on this website before Aug. 4, 2011, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which means the same thing except you are free to adapt these posts.

(This blog post was last updated on Jan. 30, 2012)

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Reid Picks: The Best Website for Free Quality Science Fiction E-books

You can find free science fiction e-books on many websites, but if you want some top-quality e-books, I recommend the Baen Free Library located at www.baen.com/library. Baen Books is a leading science fiction book publisher known for it's military science fiction novels. It also provides dozens of e-book versions of its published novels.
Image from Wikipedia.
So why does the publisher offer free e-books? One of the reasons is that if you read the first book of a series and like it, you may want to buy the other books. It's also compared to reading books for free at a library. If you like what you read, you may tell your friends and buy the books.

There are many Baen authors who participate, so I've narrowed the list to ten authors who are among the best. They are in alphabetical order, and I've included quotes about the authors from the site (click on their names in large print to go to their page with free books).

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