I’ve tested everything and it all seems to work, so I guess I can tell you now:
If you sign up for my fiction and/or nonfiction mailing lists, you will get free ebooks.
If you sign up for the nonfiction list, you’ll get a free copy of Tarsnap Mastery. I’m sure that Colin over at Tarsnap will be less than thrilled that I’m giving away free documentation for his service, but it’s my book and he can suck it up.
If you sign up for the fiction list, you will receive not one not two but six free stories, spread out over a month. Some are commercially available only as part of collections.
These are not newsletters. I only bother to send mail when I have a new reason for you to give me money, such as a new release, a Kickstarter, a bundle, or one of my very rare sales.
Is this giveaway a transparent ploy to make you listen when I try to sell you other books? Yes. Yes, it is. I hope that the freebies will so enchant you that you must purchase everything I have ever written. Or, that my generosity will so burden your conscience that the mere sight of my name will make you mash the BUY button. Either works.
Mailing list subscription confirmation emails are sent as multipart/alternative but only text/html part has any (meaningful) content in – text/plain contains only ‘ ‘.
Huh. Good to know, thanks.
So much email is unusable as plain text these days, my mutt drops everything into lynx, so I didn’t notice.
No worries!
As long as there’s only text/html, I don’t notice either but my config always gives priority to text/plain if more options is available ;^)