The coming deluge of Kindle sales this year with the super low prices being offered by Amazon ($79!!!) means there will be a huge demand for high quality content for the foreseeable future. This bodes well for writers of just about any genre.
One thing that has me concerned as I am getting ready to publish my 80,000 plus word novel, The Sequence, is the increasingly short attention spans we all have. Is the time of the long novel behind us? I mean seriously, who has time for it? Even when eating, a task that is needed for survival, we only have time for the nuggets, not the whole chicken.
Fear not fellow novelists. I just read a cool post on CopyBlogger.com written by Sean Platt announcing his new ‘serialized’ novel Gone Tomorrow.
The book is delivered in six ‘episodes’, just a like a TV program. Check it out here – http://www.copyblogger.com/ebook-revolution/
Is this the future of fiction?
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Thanks for the mention. As for length, I still think there’s a place for large books. Some of my favorite books are long. When a book is great, you can stay in its pages forever. I think science fiction and fantasy readers have always been open to longer works.
That being said, you can experiment with your novel in both serialized AND long form, breaking the book up at the appropriate times.
I think you are right about the longer books. I am really excited about your project and look forward to seeing how it turns out. I also think a serialized project like you are doing would be great for co-authored books like you and Sean wrote. Could be a ton more fun than the sometimes lonely work of banging on the keyboard by yourself for hours on end…