What's new this week...words from our fearless (ha) leader

And the link to Crash Flux 1: Welcome To The Machine is here:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00O70XWD6

What's Free This Week

So what's free this week?

Funny you should ask! From Aug 26 to Aug 28(2014), volume 2 of Michael Jay Tucker's explosive-cargo columns can be had, for FREE, from Amazon. You can see the book here:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MP5XXA2http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MP5XXA2


These date back to the 1994 and include some of the funniest and wildest of Tucker's writings.

So drop by and pick up a copy. It's free, so you got nothin' to lose :-)

Free on Aug 17 and Aug 18

What's free from Belfort & Bastion right now! Well, we've got some Explosive-Cargo for you!

"Clueless CEOs, egomaniacal engineers, dim-witted trade press hacks, Proftalk, Depth Charges, BERNIE the larcenous (and lecherous) virtual sidekick, Stewdspeak, bobbing for leeches, GATEKEEPIR the ghastly net-denizen …they're back!"

Before blogs, before social networking, before the Web itself…there were "ezines," personal publications emailed to their readers. Michael Jay Tucker's explosive-cargo (Xcargo) was one of the most popular ezines of the 1990s, with a subscriber list of over a 1000 and a pass along readership of maybe ten times that. A wild compendium of comedy, political commentary, tender personal essays, and just plain silliness, Xcargo had fans all over the 'Net.

Belfort & Bastion is delighted to announce that the original Xcargos are now available in book form. Explosive-Cargo 94: The Best Of The Beginnings contains some of the very first Xcargo columns—including the hysterical introduction of BERNIE and the premier of "Depth Charges (the lowest form of explosive-cargo)" as well as Tucker's homage to domestic bliss, "House," and his grieving response to anti-Abortion violence in "Brookline 1994."







And best of all, this first collection of Tucker's Xcargos will be free for download on Aug 17 and Aug 18. So head on over to Amazon and pick up a few spare Cargos!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MOPKU54

The Pay What You Want Site is LIVE!

So now the big day is here! Our PWYW site is up and running!

What's PWYW? That's short for either (depends who you ask) for Pay What You Want or Pay Want You Wish.

Either way, what it means is a brand new model of selling. Here's how it works. You have some service or product you wish to offer the world. It could be something physical and tangible. Or, more likely, it is something digital, like an e-book, or a piece of music, or even a movie.

Rather than set a fixed price, you put it out into the world for free. Anyone who wants it can download it. But, then, you ask the buyer to consider contributing to the artist's well being.

In other words, you let the buyer decide how much a product is worth to them. It might be nothing. Or, it might be $5. Or it might be $500. Whatever. It is entirely up to the consumer.

And that's what we're going to do on our new PWYW page. The e-books and other products on that site will be available for download on a PWYW-basis. You can get them, download them, and then pay exactly what you feel they were worth to you!

Again, that might be $0. Or it might be much more. It is up to you.

Oh, don't get us wrong. We'll always be selling products at fixed prices on Amazon and our regular webpage. But on our PWYW-site, it will be pay what you want or nothing.

Except we hope it won't be nothing  : -)

So, head on over to the new PWYW-site. Check it out! And come back often. We'll be getting in more content soon.

And seriously, if you do like something you see there, please consider slipping the creator a little cash. Think of it as buying a friend a soda on a hot day.

And, in the process, you'll be supporting the arts.

For which we will be eternally grateful.

Da site: https://sites.google.com/site/belfortbastionspwyw/

And what's free this week—Lucky Pennies!

And we've got more free for you this week. For a start, there's Lucky Pennies, the poetry of W. L. Kasperek.

Ms. Kasperek's works a welcome relief from the rather depressing poetry that is the norm these days. She brings us poems that are by turns vivid, intense, funny, sad, profound and enormously compassionate. She masterfully explores the human condition in the strange new age of our lives today.

So check out this remarkable little collection. It will FREE from July 18 to July 22, 2014. Just head over to Amazon and download from here:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E7HNCYI

Free on Amazon this week: Something For Everything

So what Belfort & Bastion e-book will be free this coming week? We've got a scary one for ya.

On July 14 and running through July 18, 2014, (that's Pacific time) Robert L. Folkner's Something For Everything will be available for free. This is a fascinating (if somewhat terrifying) retelling of the Faust tale from the perspective of an American teenager in our grim, post-industrial world.

Be sure to download! Just go to:

       http://www.amazon.com/Something-For-Everything-ebook/dp/B00BC0JKEO

And ask yourself, what would you give up to have everything you always wanted?

Freebies!

Every 90 days, Amazon.com allows its authors and publishers to give away their e-books for periods ranging from a day to five days. Belfort and Bastion, and you, can take advantage of that fact.

We'll be offering selected e-books for $0 at certain pre-determined periods from now on. So, check back here frequently to see what's on offer at no cost!

We're looking forward to sharing with you.