![]() I mean, it's always been a tough time for writers, but it's even tougher now. Why do you think serialized novels growing in popularity amongst writers? Serialization was used to to test commercial viability and to build an audience. Pretty soon, and for much of the 19th century, it was rare for a novel to be published as a book without first appearing as a serial. Dickens became a household name and every newspaper and magazine started scrambling to sign up writers to produce serial novels for them. That same year in England Charles Dickens began to serially publish The Pickwick Papers, which no one much liked for the first three installments but everyone suddenly loved starting with the fourth installment. It was a good ploy, worked wonders for circulation, and soon everyone was doing it. This was actually the first daily newspaper in France, and the publisher included the serialized novel in order to lure people into buying his paper so much more frequently than they were used to buying newspapers. ![]() The first proper serialized novel (that is, a novel written by one person and meant to be a novel-and, yes, I say this in order to exclude One Thousand and One Nights) was Honoré de Balzac's The Old Maid published in a French newspaper in 1836. ![]() How long have serialized novels been around? Let me just stick with my first statement: a serialized novel is a novel delivered to readers in installments over time. Maybe this book is actually Moby Dick and so it is phenomenal no matter how presented. I say ‘might' because you never know what other charms this book might have to compensate and make it a perfect fit for serialization? Maybe each chapter is a perfect gem and you want to savor each slowly, and serialization heightens that experience. A slow, lyrical novel where not much ever happens, for instance, might make a bad serial. Any good serialized novel also reads well as an all-at-once book, whereas the reverse is not true. Each installment is a satisfying read in itself, but it also leaves you wanting more. First of all, what is a serialized novel?Ī serialized novel is a novel delivered to readers in installments over time. You can follow Plympton by signing up for updates on or by following them on Twitter You can also receive serialized novels for free from their sister site, DailyLit. Plympton Publishing, which was started in 2012, publishes serialized fiction, and thus has a pulse on this exciting trend for authors. Yael Goldstein Love is the co-founder and editorial director of Plympton. ![]()
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