To Serial or not to Serial

[necia_phoenix]

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I’ve been thinking about doing a serial. I’ve considered putting E1 up as a serial, say every Friday or Sat, one chapter at a time, to be put together as an e-book and POD when it is complete.  I’m still researching the idea.

I’ve seen people run serials very successfully, from crowd funding to doing auctioning of stories. and was wondering what other people’s takes on the matter was.

Anyone? **peers around**

 

 

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The Shiny
A story from the idea’s point of view.

The idea was Shiny and New and ready to be written. Unfortunately, The Writer had other ideas…

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[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

I think the success of a serial story depends on the following an author already has. Some big name authors have really good success with that while others, who seem successful with their already in print books, are not because their online following isn't as large.

[necia-phoenix.livejournal.com]

**nods**

Which brings me to the next question, what defines a 'successful' serial vs a not so 'successful' serial? Seriously, readership? Donations? Views per post? [fill in the blank]

[shanrina.livejournal.com]

I agree with queenoftheskies about already having a following. One thing you might want to do, though, is look at webcomics, which are also serialized. They're not the same animal, but they're similar and a lot of the more popular ones do wind up getting published in book form, so you could look at them to see what could be adapted to serial fiction, since a lot of webcomic authors don't seem to have the same kind of following before they start out.

Fifth from FM seems pretty interested in serializing his work. You could also try talking to him and see what he has to say on the matter, since I'm not really a big reader of serialized fiction. mindyklasky also ran an urban fantasy serial either last year or the year before that she eventually published as an ebook (her website's being slow for me so I can't link to it right now, but it had something to do with legal stuff and cupcakes).

[necia-phoenix.livejournal.com]

**nods** I keep meaning to pin him down to go over it, but I just never seem to have the focus to do it.