Hey, have you not purchased the Crosswords LA puzzles yet? Is that because you hate charity or because you don’t like good crosswords? Seriously, though, these crosswords range from very good to excellent and all the profits go to the Reading To Kids charity. If these were daily puzzles in a major newspaper, Todd McClary’s puzzle would be talked about as possibly the best Monday puzzle of the year, and Jeffrey Harris’s puzzle would be in the running for best overall puzzle. What’s more, you get John “Doppler” Schiff’s ferris wheel-themed team game, which is a lot of fun.

Now, you may have noticed that these puzzles are for sale at the Crossword Nexus Store, which you may not have heard of before. Let me walk you through what it is.

The Crossword Nexus Store is intended to be a way for crossword constructors to easily distribute their puzzle packs, puzzle suites, etc. This is a free service provided by Crossword Nexus; it uses the constructor’s Paypal account, and no money ever goes to anyone but the constructor.

How does it work?
If you want to take advantage of this, you’ll need to set the “Instant Payment Notification” settings on Paypal to point to a page on Crossword Nexus. Then, whenever you want to sell a new puzzle on the site, you simply sends us all the details (price, name, etc.) and we take care of the rest. You will need to make a Paypal button and then we’ll feature it on the site.

Why do it?
Why not? It’s not that much more work than setting up a Paypal button yourself, only (a) we take care of distributing the puzzles and (b) your puzzle gets featured on the site. Plus, did we mention you get to keep all the profits?

Maybe people will take advantage of this, maybe they won’t. But it’s there and it’s easy to use. Just e-mail me if you want more specifics. And in the meantime, buy those Crosswords LA puzzles! You won’t regret it.