As a writer who wanted to reach everyone without giving up control, I created Gifted.Press. Now it's yours—so you can focus on your craft while keeping what you create.
The old model is broken. Authors struggle, readers pay too much, and publishers take the lion's share.
I wrote Gift and Blueprint to explain the systems I'm building. Gift economies. Non-extractive models. Infrastructure that serves people, not profits.
When I needed to publish those books, I faced the same broken model I'd written about. Give up control to reach people, or keep control and limit my reach.
So I built Gifted.Press—not just to write about better systems, but to operationalize them.
This platform embodies the philosophy from those books. Authors keep 80%. Readers read free. Everyone can publish. Quality rises through engagement, not gatekeeping.
It's proof the philosophy works—because here it is, working. And if I needed this, other creators did too.
These aren't just ideas from my books—they're how this platform works.
Authors keep 80% of revenue. No gatekeepers taking the lion's share. The people who create get the value they generate.
Anyone can publish. Readers decide what succeeds through engagement, not publishers deciding what gets a chance.
Quality rises through reader engagement. Earn tier upgrades (1.5×, 2.5× multipliers) based on what people actually read.
From Gift and Blueprint to working infrastructure. Free reading (democratic access). Author revenue share (non-extractive). Tier progression (meritocratic). This is the philosophy, built.
Philosophy made practical. Here's what you get.
Every book. Every page. Always free. No paywalls. Democratic access built into the system.
Reading time = Reading Credits = your earnings. Non-extractive by design. The monthly pool flows to authors you actually read.
No approval process. Publish directly. All books start in Commons tier (1.0× multiplier). Rise through engagement.
Pitch your book. Readers fund you ($1-$10 contributions). Get advances ($1K-$10K). Write full-time. Repay only from success.
Founder & Author
I'm building systems that embody better philosophies. Elevate.gift, Lucid, Gifted.Press, and more.
I wrote Gift and Blueprint to scale my ideas—to explain what I'm operationalizing. These books describe how creative and economic systems should work.
Gifted.Press is one of those systems. Living philosophy, not just writing about it.
I believe people want to do the right thing. Given the right pathways, they'll support creators, not pirate.
No venture capital. No board demanding extraction. Just sustainable infrastructure that serves people first.
Whether you're a reader or writer, there's a place for you here.