If you click the thumnail to the left, a new window should open with an eBook written by Chris Carlsson. Chris sells a paperback of this eBook for $11.25 plus tax and postage online and can be ordered here. The novel is about:

A teenage arsonist threatens a partially submerged mid-22nd century San Francisco. As a Public Investigator "tryout" seeks evidence across the utopian city full of canals and veloways, political and social conflicts erupt. When there is no such thing as property, what is crime, and how does a utopian society protect itself from bad behavior? Should scientists be as free as artists to create? What is a "free market" for work without and money and commodities?

I must admit I don't know why he offers it for a free download, unless it is to encourage off-line sales, but the whole point is, if you like to write, the Internet is a perfect medium to explore, develop and sell story ideas, eBook and novels. I fancied myself as a bit of a writer when I was a teenager. This hobby was soon abandoned in my later teen years in favor of becoming a rock n' roll musician.

There are also other way to get paid for writing too. There are tons of magazines, journals and websites that often pay people for writing. For example (when this post was written) JournalismJobs.com offered a job from Media Life Magazine where the job description was/is, "Media Life covers the media industry, from TV to magazines and newspapers to radio and out of home advertising. We are a web site that is up five days a week with news stories and features. We are looking for reporters who can cover one or more areas of media. Good pay, live where you please."

A good place to keep updated on freelance writing job opportunities is to bookmark my Freelance Writing page which is a newsfeeed that gets updated every week or so. This is a great resource for those who want to be freelance writers.

You know what I would like to do if I had the time?

Write eBooks with pictures taken with a digital camera that show all the neat but lesser known cool spots to explore in Nova Scotia. This is something I can't picture myself doing right now because of my current business. But tourists who come in the summer time often spend thousands of dollars on travel, lodging, entertainment, and various activities such as hiking, white water rafting, and bycycling. It would seem reasonable that if you're going to rent a cottage that costs you a few hundred dollars for the week, the same people might buy a $20 eBook that shows them some of the really cool spots and activities they don't want to miss.

I would sell these books from Clickbank and talk to website owners who have cottages, accommodations, or anything tourism related, about being an affiliate of the eBook and ask them to promote it on their site.

What a great job that would be! Spend the Summer "taking in the sights" and then in the evening, or days you are resting up, write about what you have seen.

If you can think of other things you might write about, you are encouraged to leave your comments if you want.