Louis Shalako
Ladies and gentlemen,
Come one, come all,
One size fits all.
We have something for everyone.
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If you have a goal, and someone might be able to
help you with it, by all means share that goal with them. If the goal is a
positive one, or even just a reasonable one, good people will do what they can
to assist you.
That’s an important and fundamental truth of human nature.
If someone can’t
help you achieve your goal, then there’s not much point in sharing your
goal with them.
If nothing else, it will merely bore them, or
convince them you are a fool, and in the worser
cases, they will even act to impede your progress and prevent you from
achieving anything. To a person without a dream, after all, there is nothing
worse than a person that has one.
Especially if you’re willing to take your risks and
work your ass off trying to get there. This is more than some folks can abide.
You know this to be true.
And so do they.
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On the internet, sharing personal information has
its limits, but in order to share my goals, and some readers may be in a
position to help me achieve those goals, you sort of have to understand why.
First of all, I’m a writer and have been since about
1984.
I’ve also been on disability for seventeen years,
the result of a fall from a scaffolding.
Now, there’s not much you can do, to help me become
a better writer. That’s all up to me and I work very hard to achieve that end
of it.
But the real problem is of course finding readers as an independent and unknown
author.
Any success I have, goes towards the ultimate goal
of getting off of disability, which is 40 % below the poverty line, and living
independently, with some level of dignity, in what I would call working class
prosperity.
My needs are simple and I keep my costs low.
I
just want to have a better life, ladies and gentlemen.
During Read an Ebook Week at Smashwords, I have set
the prices at free, using checkout coupons, for four pen-names. Louis Shalako
has some free stuff as well. The codes are listed on the product pages.
These are my pen-names, and in some crazy way, they
are also fictional characters in their own right. Each of them is a unique
person, and I’m very proud of them. These are my children, after all.
Louis
Shalako (There’s an interview there too.)
These are my humble gifts, and my only wealth, which
is why it pleases me to give so many of them away for free. They are the result
of long hours of blood, toil, tears and sweat.
I would not say that I give them away for nothing.
Finding you, the reader, is enough.
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