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Second Helpings from ReadTheseLips.com is their new e-anthology available as a free PDF download. To celebrate the launch, a photo contest for most amusing/unusual picture featuring Second Helpings is on now till 31 July 2008.

The first best-selling author Paulo Coelho is distributing for free his works on his blog:
http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com
Now the full edition of The Alchemist is online for free.
On the next months, Paulo is going to have full editions online of all his titles published in English.

You can never have too many books, so we are delighted to share with you some ways to get them for free. From children’s books to technical books, there are numerous resources that offer literature for free.

Popular writer Neil Gaiman is going to put one of his books online. Which book, though...? Ah, that's up to you. If you were giving one away to a friend who had never read anything of his, what would it be? Where would you want them to start? Select the cover of the book you'd like to see out there, online, for free. Voting open for a week.

Tor has been the biggest publisher of science fiction and fantasy since the late 1980s. If you sign up for their newsletter right now, they will send you a free e-book every week. The first week's free book is Mistborn, by rising fantasy star Brandon Sanderson. Next week's will be Old Man's War by John Scalzi, 2006's winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

ReadTheseLips.com presents a lesbian short fiction anthology in Read These Lips: Openings. We are pleased to bring you twenty-one reflections on lesbian life in stories and poetry ranging from fantasy and science fiction to erotica and everyday issues, showcasing some of the increasing diversity and complexity in lesbian fiction today.

Fantasy Magazine makes the switch to online delivery. Free, so far as I can tell. Interviews, reviews and original fiction. Current issue has stories by Andrea Kale, Cat Rambo and others. Plus, every Friday a comment contest. Submit a comment on fantasy — a rant, a review, a story — in an open post. They'll choose the day's most entertaining writer and PayPal them $10 on the spot.

The driving force behind The International Literary Quarterly is that it be a broad church in the world of letters, a forum for outstanding poetry and prose, whether in its original version or in translation, and for criticism that is trenchant and thought-provoking. The first issue is online. I don't know if it has a print counterpart or not.

Every week Hub Magazine will publish a piece of short fiction, along with at least one review (book,
DVD, film, audio, or TV series) and we’ll also have the occasional feature, too. Free. Online.

For all you Wordsy people who have been visiting my free online non-fiction course, you may want to drop in to the free creative writing course too. Start from the beginning and work your way through releasing your creativity, writing from a POV, short stories and bringing your writing to life. Next week we'll look at building a character. See you there!