| Any first time author who wants to get his novel | | | | this subject. Other interesting articles on the |
| published should ask John Grisham about the | | | | emerging form have occurred in many places as |
| process. He endured a relatively modest 28 | | | | the form begins to be embraced by a larger |
| rejections before finding a publisher for his first | | | | population of the artist community. |
| novel, A Time to Kill. Twenty-Eight rejections may | | | | One other event that seemed to cement the |
| not seem like a lot but if you consider the time it | | | | concept of writing novels in the form of a blog |
| takes to write a query, send a manuscript and | | | | was the fact that the National Novel Writing |
| await a response from the publisher or agent you | | | | Month participants chose the blog as their media |
| can easily come to the conclusion that it is a | | | | of choice for the 50,000 word novellas. You can |
| process that takes anywhere from one to six | | | | see a list of the 2004 contest at the organizations |
| months in most cases - for one rejection. If you | | | | official blog The contest will be running again |
| multiply that by the number of rejections the | | | | starting this November so the posting of a whole |
| average first time writer must endure for his first | | | | new wave of blognovels is sure to hit the internet |
| time novel then you will easily see why alternative | | | | community regardless of whether they read |
| sources of publishing are always attractive. The | | | | them or not. |
| most recent alternative source of publishing is the | | | | For some fairly professional examples of what |
| blognovel. | | | | can be accomplished with a blognovel see the |
| The word "blognovel" is still relatively unknown to | | | | following: |
| most people. Though blog is a word that most | | | | Simon of Space (Which was recently picked for |
| everyone has heard at one point or another | | | | print by publisher Ephemera Bound.) |
| "blognovel" is for the most part under the radar. | | | | The Fifth Tomorrow (Nice format though there |
| It is hard to say who it was that first coined the | | | | are only 4 chapters posted of this effort by first |
| phrase but for certain it was the Salon blognovel | | | | time author C.F. York |
| "Plan B by Diego Doval that gained the most | | | | Le Spirale Fantastique (Very professional effort |
| attention. It was shortly thereafter that a fair | | | | by an author previously published in print) |
| number of blognovels started popping up. Ever | | | | Irrational Histories (A somewhat regular serial |
| since that time the idea of the blog as a logical | | | | style novel by up and coming author David Moles |
| media for artistic expression has gained | | | | American Invisible (Fine effort by writer Hugh |
| momentum. The site Slashdot.org has archived | | | | Madison. |
| some particularly interesting debates concerning | | | | |