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Blog-Novelist Gets Contract (#860)
Posted: 1/3/2003; 3:02 PM by Terry Frazier
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Yet another alternative path to getting published, the blog-novel, pays off for a sci-fi writer. The writer, John Scalzi, is a professional writer, but primarily in non-fiction. Still this is one of the first cases of a blog-based effort being picked up by a major house.

Over at American Invisible, Inc. Hugh Madison is pushing along with his own blog-based novellas featuring a range of 1950s and 60s comic book-style detectives. Check it out for a sense of how weblog-based serialization works.

Blog-novel to become paper-novel. Patrick Nielsen Hayden -- blogger, senior editor for Tor Books -- announces on his blog this morning that,

...I really did make a publication offer, on behalf of Tor Books, to a writer named John Scalzi for a science fiction novel he had serialized on his web journal. And he very graciously accepted.
[Boing Boing Blog]

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