Serials

Salman Rushdie, the Booker Prize-winning novelist, insists that he is not, like so many media members before him, going to Substack-at least not full-time. He won't be publishing his next book on the newsletter platform. Instead, he's taken an advance from the company to fool around with "whatever comes into" his head. This will apparently include a serialized novella.  Read more

The first 400 words of my novel, Adjustments, were written mostly to prove to my publisher, who had asked for the story, that I had no novel to write. I was a non-fiction, just-the-facts writer who had read little fiction as an adult, let alone had any interest in writing it.  Read more

Molly Barton loves books. She also loves TV.  Read more

As Alison Flood reported in The Guardian as the project got under way, it's been almost 200 years since Charles Dickens took Britain by storm with the serialization of his first major novel, The Pickwick Papers. And now, "American novelist Joshua Cohen is setting himself a larger target - of the internet at large - as he embarks on an a mission to reinterpret Dickens' debut live online."  Read more

When you compare the online traffic of a news website against that of a publisher's website, who do you think gets the most visitors? Think the New York Times or Fox News versus HarperCollins or Simon & Schuster. To almost no one's surprise, it's not even close: the news sites get much more traffic. Yet both groups create massive amounts of content that people enjoy reading.  Read more