Moolah: I want some

I see a lot of proposed business models floating around, blog posts on what works and what doesn’t for making a living off of storytelling online. So far, I really like the idea of “pay ...

This week in digital storytelling…

No, there’s not much chance I could keep up with things enough to post a weekly update every week. But I wanted to pull together a collection of the things I’ve been looking at and ...

I’m such a slacker

Okay, technically not really, but if this blog is evidence, I’ve been comatose from either natural or artificial causes for the last month. In reality, I have: Revised my online novel communities paper (and it ...

The Shifting Author-Reader Dynamic: Online Novel Communities as a Bridge from Print to Digital Literature

This paper looks at the websites created and maintained by the authors themselves, which delve deeper into the world of novel and novelist, offering fans interaction with both the author and other readers, as well as an extension of the novel’s world through games and additional materials. These online novel communities are models of a bridge between print and digital storytelling conventions.