Upcoming series: Profiles in Web Fiction

Over the next few weeks, I'll be interviewing several web fiction authors - writers that are publishing their work in serialized form on the web.

Web fiction has yet to go mainstream, having thus far been dominated by works of fan fiction (known as fanfic), but I think this will change in the coming years, as eReaders and netbooks become commonplace and people become more accustomed to reading books, magazines, newspapers, etc. in digital form.

As the saying goes, "writers write," and these guys and gals are pushing the envelope with this new publishing paradigm. I hope to have the first post in the series up by the end of the week, so keep an eye out for it.

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Another avenue to publication - the blook

I happened across an interesting article the other day in the Times of London. The article, entitled Meet blook, son of blog, on the new frontier of publishing, describes an avenue to publication that didn't exist until recently. Blooks are publications that have sprung from a popular blog or website.

It makes sense, really. An established blog has an established audience, and a traditional publisher, risk-averse by nature, can mitigate the risk of taking on an unpublished author by selecting one that already has a large fan-base. Marketing dollars can be saved because there is already a conduit to a portion of the target demographic.

If you already have a popular blog, you might want to think about using it as a path to traditional publication. If not, then you might want to think about starting down that path.

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