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Cell Phone Novels Arrive in America Submitted by textnovel on 2010-07-15
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A cell phone novel is a novel written and typically read on a cell phone. This phenomenon started early in this decade when young Japanese women began texting and emailing stories while commuting to work.\r\nNow these novels have been all the rage in Japan for several years, with a multi-million dollar market and billions of hits on mobile phone websites.  Readers and writers are typically young teens (usually girls) who are eager to comment on the story and help the author by giving feedback and pointers of what they would like to see happen next.\r\nThis author and reader relationship is critical, with the author using feedback to change the story and add twists and unexpected turns to the plot, enveloping excited readers in the story so that they can barely wait for the next installment of the story.  These stories are usually written and read on the commute to and from work or while standing in line.  Typically they are digested in short chapters that arrive as regular updates from the author.\r\nAmazingly, these novels can be anywhere from 150 to 500 pages in length and can be created as fast as they can be read! Some authors create as many as 5 books a year, using popular websites such as Maho i-Land (Magic Island). Some novels are so popular that sites have started charging the equivalent of $10 (US) to download and read the full novel. But most novels are still free and generate millions of views from their young audience. \r\nSome frown upon this new genre of literature, expressing disappointment with the lack of good grammar and literary substance.  But writers and readers don’t seem to care, with the former creating a steady supply of new stories based on consistent demand from the latter. \r\nThe craze has even become so popular that it is beginning to spread to Western countries including the United States, although writers and readers in the US tend to use computers as often as their phones to write and read the stories.  One website called Textnovel allows readers to use cell phones or computers to write and read stories.  The site is growing in popularity, with approximately 14,000 members already and thousands of novels already available.  Some of the top novels on this site have been viewed over 26,000 times.  \r\nWinner of Textnovel’s 2008 contest, Shannon Delany landed a major publishing deal with St. Martin’s Press for her YA paranormal series, 13 to Life. It began as bite-size serial chapters at Textnovel.com and was the first novel there to use polls to influence the story’s details through a special blog. With a U.S. release of June 22, 13 to Life is available for pre-order online. You can pre-order your copy here now. Delany’s success shows cell phone novels are viable beyond the online world.\r\nAlthough this type of live writing may not result in any Nobel prizes in literature, it seems to be generating interest among young people who otherwise might not write or read much.  Perhaps someday kids in America will be writing and reading home-brewed novels from their cell phones just as much as Japanese teens do.\r\n

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“13 To Life” - A Tale Of Teenage Love, Loss And Werewolves Submitted by textnovel1 on 2010-07-15
related website http://www.textnovel.com

“I’m a Cyber Cinderella,” Delany confesses. “If it hadn’t been for Textnovel.com I’d probably still be just poking at my story ideas instead of seeing my first novel—the first in a series being format) is already being enjoyed by readers of all ages. “From nine years old to those in their forties and fifties—it seems like it gives people a much needed escape,” Delany says. “And published by a major NYC house—release June 22.”\r\n\r\n13 to Life, which has been called, “your next fiction addiction,” by bestselling author Ann Aguirre and “a new spin on an old legend,” by NYT bestseller Maria V. Snyder (both of whom read it in an advanced reader copy that’s what I hope it does: Give people an escape and encourage them to ask the questions the narrator, and her behavior, raises.” \r\n\r\nSo what’s it all about? “13 to Life is a tale of teenage love, loss and—oh, yeah—werewolves,” Delany says with a smirk. “People are quick to say it’s a werewolf story, but really, it’s the story of a girl who has lost someone very dear to her and how she struggles to move forward. When she meets Pietr (pronounced “Peter”) she starts to wake up from the nightmare she’s been wallowing in. And, as she starts to really think about the issues dogging her, she realizes he has issues of his own, including an understanding of tragedy which binds them together.”\r\n\r\nSince winning Textnovel 2008, things have moved quickly for Delany. “We handled interest from a movie producer and a couple publishers soon after I won. Luckily my winnings included an agent, Stan Soper of Soper Literary Agency, and he handled the interested parties while I typed my fingers off fleshing out the sparse prose style that’s more common in cell phone novels. I wanted 13 to Life to be a quick, consumable read, but in a more traditional style of prose, too. It was a stylistic compromise of sorts. And as soon as I had the manuscript complete, we sent it forward.”\r\n\r\nDelany went with St. Martin’s Press (an imprint of Macmillan). “I was impressed with their interest, quick response and communication skills. It’s paid off. I work with some of the very best people in the publishing industry.”\r\n\r\n13 to Life has a release date of June 22, 2010 from St. Martin’s Griffin. Shannon Delany can be found online at http://www.ShannonDelany.com and http://13toLife.us/blog and through Twitter at http://Twitter.com/Shannon_Delany.com.\r\n

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