The Book Cove

Two weeks ago I shared with you the beginnings of my deep plunge into web serialization and my decision to post a chapter a week of my fiction trilogy on various social media sites around the web, draw attention to them through other social media sites, and hope to find enough people who love my work that they’ll love me forever , which is what we ultimately want as writers, right? The love of enough people to allow us to eat and keep writing. Making money with fiction writing on the world wide web is two parts high stakes gambling and one part a long minimum wage slog working at McDonald’s. The gamble being it is possible to be noticed but the chances of having that winning formula that catapults your work into publishing industry fame and commendation are slim to none and in the process you could lose money through book editing, cover art design, and advertising , all of which you will need if you want to go through Amazon, or Smashwords, or Barnes and Noble and publish your ...

When I first made it known that I intended to serialize my beloved, but Lit Agent rejected, Battery Park Trilogy the first responder wanted to know what my story had to do with serial killers. Um nothing, please don’t go around telling people I’m starting up a serial killer. But as I thought about it I realized ‘serial’ isn’t a common word anymore except when it involves violent crimes. Some explanation is necessary. Introduction Fiction serialization refers to scheduled installments of a story. If you do a Google search you’ll find lots of chatter about this old guy to my left who is upheld as our most famous serialization success story. That’s right – Charles Dickens got his start having chapters published in magazines. It was totally in vogue back then and everyone did it including Henry James with A Portrait of a Lady. But history remembers Dickens. It was a way for writers to get their work into people’s hands without readers having to invest their hard-earned cash on a very...