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Some links I’d suggest on the Blog to Kindle possibility now available… This could be interesting, since it’s a possibility for people publishing their novels/fiction online through blogs can get their stuff offered on Kindle’s and on Amazon.
There have been some serious concerns about the Terms of Agreement, but a huge portion of the blogging world seems to jump on the bandwagon. Personally I don’t think that authors publishing online should go this way, but I’d still love to read your opinion.
On to the links, sorry for the little too long suggestion!
The Terms and Conditions (which aren’t too easy to find either)
https://kindlepublishing.amazon.com/vendor/members/kindle-blogs/static/terms-and-conditions.html
Opinions on Kindle Publishing for Blogs:
http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2009/05/17/bloggers-amazon-will-eat-your-lunch/
http://followthereader.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/kindle-publishing-for-blogs/
http://www.edrants.com/kindle-bloggers-become-amazons-bitches/
I wrote a piece called “My Book Industry Blueprint (v0.2a1)”, in which I deconstruct the publishing industry and re-build it in a way that gives all types of digital distribution (serialized web fiction etc) equal footing to paper stuff. It makes some people angry, but I think it’s fun and fair.
Anyway, I thought it might be a good fit…
http://1889.ca/2009/05/my-book-industry-blueprint-v02a1.html
From today’s C|Net news: “Why e-books aren’t cheaper” by Gordon Haff
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13556_3-10250017-61.html?tag=newsFeaturedBlogArea.0
-J
Hmmmm.
Interesting tool/site created for authors to publish novels online…
http://blovelspot.com/
From the site: Blovelspot is the new resource for writers to write blog novels (or blovels) online. A blovel is a novel you write very quickly in 40 chapters of around 1,000 characters each.
I thought you might be interested to know about the London Churches project, which I have just launched.
The idea is to visit every church in the City of London – and probably a few outside – and use the visits as the basis of an online work. This isn’t a blog, and it certainly isn’t a historical or architectural guide. It’s a work of hyperfiction, but derived from real places, real experiences, real observations and real conversations. In many ways it isn’t about the churches themselves, but the experience of visiting them.
Part 1 is based on a visit made on Monday 6th April 2009, which took in the following:
St Martin-in-the-Fields
St Paul’s, Covent Garden
St Clement Danes
Temple Church
St Dunstan-in-the-West
St Bride’s, Fleet Street
St Martin, Ludgate
To view the London Churches project, go to http://edwardpicot.com/londonchurches/ .
- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com – personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk – The Hyperliterature Exchange
Try again – this may be of interest – website contains link to pdf download – free ebook – The Ghosts of Earth – fantasy genre
http://www.truthfarer.co.uk/
Regards
Paul
Just wanted to say here that some of the above links – with the exception of Janoda’s first comment – weren’t posted because they came at a time when I was seriously backed up with my summer-break job. Will be paying closer attention to this page – and the links posted in it, from now on. I can’t promise you I’ll link to all of them, but I will respond to you via email, thanking you for posting them up.
I know it is a slow week, but I found something REALLY cool, that we somehow completely missed. Or at least I did.
From the cool people at The Future of the Book: CommentPress, a wordpress pluging which uses the in paragraph commenting process of Sophie. I’m definitly going to try this at some point, though I believe it’ll work better for non-fiction than fiction…
Also, someone is organising a Free E-Day Event/Carnival/Celebration on Dec. 1st. (http://freeeday.wordpress.com/) I have no idea how big this event will be, or if it will work, but so far 163 people have subscribed to the Facebookgroup, and we’re still months away. This might be a way for web-publishing authors to gain new readers.
I want an edit button. *Rolls Eyes*
Insert link to CommentPress: http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/
Was that spam?
Anyway, have you read about that Mark Helprin? He calles us Digital Barbarists. We also write like Popeye Speaks, but less polished.
Apparantly everybody who uses Creative Commons as a copyright system is stupid…
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/one-mans-stand-against-digital-barbarism.ars
Yes, that was spam. Thanks for the heads-up, Jan. =) As for the link … well it’s hard to take it seriously. I’d be more worried if he were respected AND logical. Still, that was a good laugh. Thanks for the link. =)
I found an interesting article while searching the net, about a chinese man who started a novel online and became quite popular in his home country. It’s from February, but I think it’s of interest to the readers on this site.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/02/15/china.publishing/index.html
I think you’ll like this article.
This is my original tweet, including the people I got it from. (For your lovely via linking)
RT: @janoda: RT: @DonLinn & @ericrumsey: What Happens to Publishing if you Can’t Sell Content? Paul Graham in Post-Medium Publishing http://bit.ly/STNZc
If you’re interestedin collaborative creative writing online, be sure to check out Protagonize.
http://www.protagonize.com
Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to writing various forms of collaborative, interactive fiction. One author writes a story, and others post branches or chapters to it in different directions. The result is an organic, evolving story where everyone can participate.
It’s a lot of fun and we’ve got almost 10,000 authors participating — check it out if you’re interested in this type of collaborative writing environment.
Hi,
Just to tell you about the daily comedy novel on Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/whodunit140 . Written and smsed to twitter everyday!
Thanks
It’s a bit of shameless self-promotion but…
http://requirecookie.com/merch
Er, hit post too soon – basically it’s a call to arms for any serial writers who want to do merchandise, but not through companies like Cafepress or Zazzle.
Weekly web serial: The Marradith Ryder Series
http://flashesinthedark.com/?s=the+marradith+ryder+series
Updates every Wedensday.
“And” is an online project which I launched several months ago now, but forgot to post to this list.
I recently made contact, after many years, with an old college friend called Katrin McGibbon. When I inquired what she was doing, she revealed that she was abridging Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South for the radio. As a joke, I suggested that instead of trying to reduce the size of the book without losing any of the essentials, it might be an idea to discard all the important bits and keep the other stuff. Then I had a go at using this method myself, and found it to be both more difficult and much more rewarding than I had expected. I intend to abridge the whole book in this way, and the first sixteen chapters are now online.
To view the project, go to http://edwardpicot.com/and/ .
- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com – personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk – The Hyperliterature Exchange
Have you seen the Rose & Bay Awards? It’s for nominating creative works that are crowdfunded, and I imagine a lot of e-fiction qualifies in the fiction category (web comics go in the Other Project category; there’s also Poetry, Art and Patron categories).
I’d love to see more people go over there and nominate things! In no small part because it means I’ll have more interesting things to read/investigate. :) Anyone can nominate.
http://community.livejournal.com/crowdfunding/154110.html
Shameless self-promotion with a bit of a twist … here’s a YouTube trailer that I put together for my web serial Mrs Darcy vs The Aliens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLt4u3QCKFs
The serial itself can be found at http://www.mrsdarcyvsthealiens.com
Hi,
I was just on your site and saw where you were asking for link suggestions.
Can you please consider Top Blog Setup. It’s a site that does free WordPress blog installations for anyone wanting to start a blog.
The url is: http://topblogsetup.com/
Sincerely.
Greg Black
Hi there,
Just wanted to let you know of the three serial series (one is a compilation of short stories with the same characters) that I’ve written.
The first is Canyons of Steel, a series of short stories that revolve around three people thrown together to survive. It’s a western set in the modern world.
http://taholtorf.wordpress.com/c-o-s/
The second is a serial series which is nearing completion, but I plan on extending it to different “seasons”. The Adventures of Black Mask & Pale Rider. A western fantasy where two elves have an adventure in the mid 18th Century United States. A tale of six gun and sorcery.
http://taholtorf.wordpress.com/bmamppr/
The third and most recent is a serial series set in a universe of the modern day world, but the main character is a superhero, akin to Batman in a way. Blood of the Moon is a story of heroism, justice, love and lust.
http://taholtorf.wordpress.com/botm/
Looking for a very creative website designer that understands that we want to be like a bookshop where people can browse for hours and read stuff and enjoy stuff – buying is not the most important thing ..
I’ve been trying for most of the past year to get some exposure for my web serial novel series, Tasakeru. I’d greatly appreciate it if you could take a look.
Thank you very much!
The Flaneur is publishing fiction and short stories on iphones – check out the app on http://bit.ly/dypVhj .
We are going to publish our first anthology of short stories to publish this way so if you have any please submit them to us.
Thanks
http://www.cyborgivy.com/cyborgivy/
Cyborg Ivy is a weekly web based speculative fiction serial centered on the adventures of three friends experienced through their correspondence. All literary writing, visual creations and other web content, including the blog itself, is the product of a single author.
The narrative begins in 1899…an alternate 1899…wherein mankind has discovered certain technologies that allow them to travel from planet to planet without having to brave the perils of outer space. Their space folding cuts an opening in between two worlds, and because this opening must invariably occur above the ground due to great destruction it causes to land and buildings, airship development has emerged as the primary inter-world method of transportation. It is a world where mankind has expanded their influence across hundreds of habitable worlds and their population, and dominion over the human aboriginal races of those worlds, has increased exponentially.
Each of the pages on this site are intended to provide the reader with a detailing of the world of Cyborg Ivy as it has skewed from the real, and provide a reference as the story progresses.
I have a blook that I’m in the middle of writing *and* promoting. It’s called “Polite Society”, and it’s set in Sussex, England, in 1756. The story centers around a couple of young adults-some from the elite set and some from the servant class-who clash as they learn to live with each other amid lies, secrets, deception, and dangerous relationships. The blook can be found at http://societybook.wordpress.com. I also draw/color artwork for the book, which can be seen as the header of each chapter and in the gallery section on the site. I hope you enjoy it, and thanks.
Hi, I’m a fictionaut writer, and loved the article you wrote. I’m editing an anthology, The Velvet Chamber, which asks writers to revision myth and fairy-tale from a transgressive, perhaps erotic, perhaps feminist, lens. Jezebel.com is a big fan of the project, and already have two stories from fictionaut writers Susan Tepper and George LaCas, as well as Marie Mockett Mutsuki, and looking good for Victor LaValle. Still looking for great writers, deadline is October 30. Cheers, LA
And, Chapters 17-24
“It was too hot. She was struck by an unusual heaving. A sense of irritation gathered round the doors and windows. Margaret reached the small side-entrance. The porter’s answer to the bell. The keen sharp pressure of the knife. She went across and up. Click of machinery.”
Continuing the abridged version of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South – abridged on the principle of leaving out all the important bits. In this section Margaret, supposedly on the lookout for a water-bed, conceives a sudden and all-consuming passion for clogs.
http://edwardpicot.com/and/
- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com – personal website
http://hyperex.co.uk – The Hyperliterature Exchange
Aloha Novelr, many thanks for your blog.
I was wondering if you might check out MyStory; a project where stories are experienced in the places where they are set.
It uses narration, a website, and a soon to be built app to create immersive experiences for readers.
http://www.mystoryworld.com.au
Sincere regards,
Matt Blackwood.