Home | Away

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Who writes short shorts?

OK, I’ve never heard of anything like this before, but Bruce Holland Rogers writes short shorts and sends them directly to you.  Seriously:  he writes short short stories and sells subscriptions by email.  For $5 a year, you get yourself three short short stories every month.  Even this notoriously arithmetic-challenged blog can figure out that’s 36 stories a year, emailed to you every month, for five bucks.  You can check out sample stories and a description of the service, if you like, and Bruce says he’s happy to grant trial subscriptions for review purposes.  He also promises to answer questions about the service—why he started it, where he publishes his stories after they’ve been distributed by e-mail, and how he deals with the peculiarities of the genre.  And you should have questions, because even though literary works have been sold by subscription before, all the way back to Virgil’s innovative Augustan Priority Remuneration plan for each book of the Aeneid (which gave rise to today’s so-called “A.P.R. financing” deals), I don’t think there’s been a literary production-and-distribution system quite like this one, ever.

And in the More Information Department, there’s a very nice (and informative) review from Infinity Plus.

Posted by Michael on 12/14 at 10:07 PM
(15) Comments • (1) Trackbacks • Permalink
Page 1 of 1 pages