Overwhelmed by the sight of a buckling bookshelf at the your local shop? Worried you'll buy something and never finish reading it? Well, first, you should support local businesses.

Then, you should check the Amazon Kindle Marketplace for free books. 

In fact, there's a near limitless supply of free books to read online, assuming you know what you're looking for. Here are a few greatest hits to get you started... 

Have you felt this: you've just written a piece of original fiction you stare up at it on the page, curious if you've violated a critical rule of storytelling?

Maybe the premise sucks? Maybe it's a no-no to have somebody's motivation be item-X or person-Y?

Something that you can't help but be a pessimist about the way things are structured. But we here at Ghost Little are all about teaching this planet how to write better stories. That's why I assembled a list of 7 tropes to flat-out avoid if you're trying to put something to the page...

Right on cue, David Lynch reappeared. We were neck-deep in adaptations and reboots, and he shouted the death-song of the shared universe, if we could tune our ears to hear that pitch.

Lynch might be arriving back on the scene with his weird Twin Peaks baby cradled in his arms, but now, the baby is grown up, and strong as ever.

There's a marked difference between movies released during the summer and movies that are emblematic of the summer season. Movies that live in that summer mood. There are movies that make seasonal sense to watch during certain times of year.

I want to address the the best summer movies. Movies that are about long days and about living for night.

Today, I'll look back at Bruce Willis and John McTiernan's DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE.

It took no time at all during my recent replay of BioShock Infinite on PS4 to realize how far and how fast not only the video game industry has traveled in four years, but all of entertainment.

Storytelling can be splashed on countless new mediums. New audiences have opened up. The so-called "walking simulator" genre—think Gone Home or Life Is Strange—present painfully honest, human storytelling to breed a potential Netflix alternative. 

And AAA-video game like BioShock Infinite signal that not all interactive world-making will lean so hard on murder as their interface method...

With the summer months fast approaching and spare time (ideally) in your future, you'll likely need something to read.

How about something classic? Intellectually stimulating?

How about something for free?

Amazon is overloaded with with books for the low price of: $owning.a.phone. 

Follow the links below for some essential reading available for free on the Amazon Kindle Marketplace, just in time for beach season... 

I met a friend for drinks on a rainy Thursday afternoon to discuss his recent trip to Austria.

When he asked what I was writing, I explained my vision for a series of free books: interconnected, independently published, and driven by community involvement.

Can you imagine if a company only made one thing? What if that one thing was so relevant, they could successfully market and sell it to anybody? That'd be mighty convenient.

That's why Mattell invented He-Man for boys when they couldn't stomach only selling to girls.

But this is not the reality. Many things must be made and companies must instead market those things to specific people. We'll over-simplify this shared universe comparison for a moment and say Superman and Wonder Woman must both be made, if we want to make All The Money.

One more "but," and it is the killer whale of "but's": What if all those specific people were motivated to buy all those many things?

Long weekend time! How should you spend your extra day off?

It's an honest question: You had 24 hours of federally-mandated time off, how did you get the most of that chronological currency?

Parades? Barbecue? Hammock? Lawnmower sales event? Mucking gutters?

It's only one day—you can't truly go on a holiday to a far-off, exotic destination. You can't change the world in a day!

But there are ways to optimize these days off...

Need something new? Of course you do. You've got social followers to please.

They're sitting back at the nest, beaks snipping at the air, waiting for anyone to drop them a worm. And you're gonna be the momma to feed them.

What does your individualized flair for good taste tell you? Well, it concerns discovery, something intellectually-stimulating, and hand-crafted detail. It can't be corporate, your followers demand something finer.

The same way shareware became indie video games, the same way local bands became genuine rock-acts, serialized free books are angling to become a new scene that demands something new all the time.