By Michael McKinley In the beginning, there was a conversation between me, Michael McKinley, and Chuck Wardell about doing something to change the way we get books to readers. Chuck had this brilliant idea on how to do it, and as a writer, I was all in, as I wanted to change the way writers got books to publishers. So we thought: 'Let's round up some writers we know, and offer them a small advance, a large and sliding upwards scale of the royalties, as well as their own webpa