Many years ago, I put together a book of my short stories and essays, comprised of most of my output up until that time. It included everything from a short story I’d written for an application to the University of Chicago that I never sent in to recent blog entries. I whipped out Adobe Pagemaker, put a book together, and uploaded it to Lulu.com for sale. I was working at Kim’s Mediapolis in New York at the time, and the guy who was running the book department there kindly allowed me to display my book for sale inside the store. I sold less than a handful of copies. That didn’t really bother me. I was just happy to have accomplished something like that.

Looking back, some of the work was juvenile and some of it was very funny. It was a mixed bag from which, if I ever publish another compilation, I might retain about half the work. I’d completely lost track of the book until I was on a Writing subreddit and noticed that someone had made a digital version of their book available for free download in order to receive feedback. I did the same. The reason I bring it up here is if you’d like to download a copy of a six-year-old book, filled with the ramblings of an 18 to 25 year old me, now is your chance!

You can download a digital version of “Party Tricks! The Book” for free from lulu.com. I promise the next book will be a grab bag of slightly higher quality. Oh, and the download is a PDF so it will work in your E-Book readers!