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Blogs by Byron Edgington Whither Serials? 1/2/2013 2:58:12 AMWhat ever happened to serialization? On this date in 1885 Thomas Hardy issued his first serialized episode of The Mayor Of Casterbridge. It was a weekly serial rather than monthly, and did quite well. Charles Dickens got his start as a serialized writer. Several other authors, Brit-Lit and American started out this way because they lacked funds to publish, readers lacked funds to purchase, authors had no name recognition established and novels had not yet become a pastime in a society where people either didn't read at all, didn't have time to or didn't have enough light to read by after six at night. The serial was the thing.
Post a Comment More Blogs by Byron Edgington • Off Ramp: Weekly Short for 12/01/2014 - Saturday, December 6, 2014 • Weekly Short Story - Saturday, November 15, 2014 • The Sky Behind Me, a Memoir of Flying and Life, $1.99 for Kindle - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 • The Sky Behind Me, a Memoir of Flying and Life, 99 cents for Kindle - Sunday, November 2, 2014 • 99 cent sale starting 11/7 - Monday, October 27, 2014 • Interview: Mike Petersen, Killer Book Marketing - Tuesday, October 14, 2014 • Audio Review_The Unheralded King - Sunday, October 5, 2014 • Audio Book Reviews - Wednesday, October 1, 2014 • SkyWriting: Essays on the Art and Craft of Aviation - Tuesday, September 16, 2014 • Silent Sky: From 9/11/202 - Thursday, September 11, 2014 • Great stories and a chance to help - Monday, August 25, 2014 • The Sky Behind Me, a Memoir of Flying and Life, $4.95 for Kindle - Saturday, August 23, 2014 • SkyWriting: Essays on the Art and Craft of Aviation - Monday, August 11, 2014 • Book review: There I Wuz - Monday, August 4, 2014 • Lip smacking mystery - Tuesday, July 22, 2014 • Book review: The Silver Star - Saturday, July 5, 2014 • Book Review: Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses - Sunday, June 29, 2014 • Free author promo - Monday, May 19, 2014 • Looking for flying tales - Wednesday, May 14, 2014 • Nerds of Ohio unite! My review of Best of Ohio - Friday, May 2, 2014 • Pilots/Crews I need your stories - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 • FREE Download--excerpts from SkyWriting - Monday, April 28, 2014 • I'll publish your flying story - Monday, April 28, 2014 • E-book just .99 cents - Saturday, March 8, 2014 • My aviation memoir is on sale this weekend, March 8/9, just .99 cents Saturday! - Friday, March 7, 2014 • e-book sale this weekend - Wednesday, March 5, 2014 • The Sky Behind Me, 99 cent sale - Tuesday, March 4, 2014 • Call for submissions - Thursday, February 13, 2014 • Catching up - Thursday, February 6, 2014 • Brrrrr! - Monday, January 6, 2014 • Radio Interview tonight - Wednesday, December 4, 2013 • Is it done yet? - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 • Writing a memoir? Check into this: - Friday, November 15, 2013 • From where I sit - Tuesday, November 12, 2013 • Daily Very Short Writing Tip - Thursday, November 7, 2013 • 'To be' or to find a better verb... - Monday, November 4, 2013 • Take a hike! - Thursday, October 31, 2013 • to publish or not to publish - Wednesday, October 30, 2013 • The Sky Writer - Friday, October 25, 2013 • Free sample of The Sky Behind Me... - Thursday, October 17, 2013 • The new world of PCS - Wednesday, October 16, 2013 • Hump Day--Getting over the himp from writer's block - Wednesday, October 2, 2013 • The Three 'tells of book promotion - Monday, September 30, 2013 • We're all mad here--writers take heart - Thursday, September 19, 2013 • How to get the writing off dead plumb: The Writer's Tool Box - Monday, September 16, 2013 • Smashwords author interview 9/5/13 - Thursday, September 5, 2013 • writers, you may want to stand up for this - Tuesday, September 3, 2013 • Writers: Rights, responsibilities and reinventing the flat tire. - Thursday, August 29, 2013 • How to write good - Monday, August 26, 2013 • Book trailer: The Sky Behind Me... - Friday, August 23, 2013 • Author (Self) interview - Thursday, August 22, 2013 • Common Core Standards: Back to Literature? - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 • George W. Bush and other mistakes - Thursday, August 15, 2013 • welcome home - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 • Book review: Bargain With Fate Book RTwo Sage trilogy - Tuesday, August 13, 2013 • I love Harry Reasoner - Thursday, August 8, 2013 • Readin', Ritin' and Wreal Estate--book selling & uts challenges - Tuesday, August 6, 2013 • Book review Friday: Dementia, by Hans Peter Braendlin - Friday, August 2, 2013 • I'm a writer--I write. Sometimes I rant. - Thursday, August 1, 2013 • Memoir as travelogue - Monday, July 29, 2013 • Small presses are back - Thursday, July 25, 2013 • New Book Project: The Emergent Sky - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 • The book biz--short version - Monday, July 22, 2013 • What do you want? - Thursday, July 18, 2013 • The Sky Behind Me at half price--add value - Tuesday, July 16, 2013 • Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics - Monday, July 15, 2013 • Blog is my co-pilot - Thursday, July 11, 2013 • ridiculous to sublime - Wednesday, July 10, 2013 • commo, criticism & culture in Asiana 214 crash - Tuesday, July 9, 2013 • Asiana 214--poor weather might have prevented this accident - Monday, July 8, 2013 • Book Binding - Friday, July 5, 2013 • Notable deaths 4th of July - Thursday, July 4, 2013 • The Blue and the Gray - Wednesday, July 3, 2013 • Life Du Soleil - Monday, July 1, 2013 • takeoff part 2 - Friday, June 28, 2013 • Takeoff - Thursday, June 27, 2013 • Decorative English - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 • To leak, or not to leak... - Monday, June 24, 2013 • Separation of church and state - Friday, June 21, 2013 • Plus ca change... - Thursday, June 20, 2013 • book promotion - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 • Tom Wolfe was right - Monday, June 17, 2013 • ...can't treat stupid. - Friday, May 31, 2013 • Birds do it, bees do it... - Thursday, May 30, 2013 • Aviation & Medicine--safety last? - Wednesday, May 29, 2013 • Happy Birthday GKC - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 • day of remembrance - Monday, May 27, 2013 • Lady Hooker, my initiation ceremony in Vietnam - Friday, May 24, 2013 • distribution - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 • Marriage Equality: Cleared for Takeoff - Thursday, May 16, 2013 • dead monk seals in Hawaii - Monday, May 13, 2013 • Free download - Thursday, May 9, 2013 • Free sample - Tuesday, May 7, 2013 • May 4th 1970 - Saturday, May 4, 2013 • Entitle-tude - Thursday, May 2, 2013 • dateline Columbus OH: 5/01/2313 - Wednesday, May 1, 2013 • How to Fly Good #4 - Monday, April 29, 2013 • aviation--a very small club - Thursday, April 25, 2013 • Traveling Light - Tuesday, April 23, 2013 • Marathon Bomber - Monday, April 22, 2013 • women in aviation - Friday, April 19, 2013 • Aviation and life: Shared conundrums - Wednesday, April 17, 2013 • Misperceptions & helicopters--How to Fly Good #3 - Monday, April 15, 2013 • Helicopters: A Primer - Thursday, April 11, 2013 • Justitia - Wednesday, April 3, 2013 • You gotta laugh - Tuesday, April 2, 2013 • opening day 2013 - Monday, April 1, 2013 • Fearless - Friday, March 29, 2013 • Equality under law - Monday, March 25, 2013 • Once a missionary, always a missionary - Friday, March 22, 2013 • ten years--and for what? - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 • come to the hills - Monday, March 18, 2013 • stones - Thursday, March 14, 2013 • Lucy & the football - Wednesday, March 13, 2013 • Separation of church & state - Tuesday, March 12, 2013 • Escape Fire - Monday, March 11, 2013 • Cycles are things we ride, like it or not - Friday, March 8, 2013 • Iraq + 10 years - Thursday, March 7, 2013 • A book at the public library - Wednesday, March 6, 2013 • A Radical Idea - Monday, March 4, 2013 • Power Rangers - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 • Take a starving writer to lunch - Monday, February 25, 2013 • Our legal code is 200,000 pages--Cyrus Cylinder 1,000 words - Friday, February 22, 2013 • A note on a napkin - Thursday, February 21, 2013 • New Book Project - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 • TWSB The World's Shortest Blog, Post #1 - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 • Memoir starts with 'Me.' - Monday, February 18, 2013 • Violence against women - Friday, February 15, 2013 • Reading - Tuesday, February 12, 2013 • Three months from today is S.A.M.E. Day - Saturday, February 9, 2013 • Drill baby, drill! - Friday, February 8, 2013 • Richard III found in parking lot! - Thursday, February 7, 2013 • Of Ice Cream & Imagination - Wednesday, February 6, 2013 • Couples - Tuesday, February 5, 2013 • Packing to leave - Sunday, February 3, 2013 • I was a Cub Scout once. - Saturday, February 2, 2013 • Why I write - Friday, February 1, 2013 • February is Heart Month - Thursday, January 31, 2013 • Go with your gut - Wednesday, January 30, 2013 • Current events - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 • Challenger-- "...a major malfunction." - Monday, January 28, 2013 • This old house - Saturday, January 26, 2013 • Child abuse in literature - Friday, January 25, 2013 • No Sex Riding Rockets - Thursday, January 24, 2013 • Happy Birthday Derek Walcott - Wednesday, January 23, 2013 • Cure for blank sheet syndrome - Tuesday, January 22, 2013 • Inauguration Day 2013 - Monday, January 21, 2013 • Pending book - Saturday, January 19, 2013 • Branding - Friday, January 18, 2013 • Book reading/signing - Thursday, January 17, 2013 • Writing is the easy part - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 • Writing contests--Scam or Opportunity? - Tuesday, January 15, 2013 • The Big .99 Cent E-book sale - Monday, January 14, 2013 • Unintended consequences - Saturday, January 12, 2013 • The power of words - Friday, January 11, 2013 • Boys will be... 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