tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398250293312747643.post5631466030458432317..comments2024-01-04T02:15:58.834-05:00Comments on Matt's Musings: Memories of a Future Life (the end)Matt Kellandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544385872579718596noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398250293312747643.post-87135686959377371622011-09-27T08:13:23.327-04:002011-09-27T08:13:23.327-04:00I agree with everything you said, Matt, but have t...I agree with everything you said, Matt, but have to disagree on the installment thing. I actually enjoyed that and it turned something which would have been a one off purchase/read/park sometwhere cycle into more of an event. I love episodic television, Dr Who, Fringe and more recently RCVR on machinima.com and I think while you might have gripes about having to wait, sometimes delayed satisfaction intensifies the experience rather than diminishes it. It totally worked for me, but I get why you quibble about it. I tell you what though I would be up for a beautiful hardback version to park on the shelf for a few years time when I've forgotten how it ends. As the years go by that time getts shorter and shorter. :)Phil Southhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18420902806795719628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398250293312747643.post-13047299946753013932011-09-25T14:11:59.428-04:002011-09-25T14:11:59.428-04:00I certainly hope we'll see more novellas. It&#...I certainly hope we'll see more novellas. It's not a good format for print for economic reasons, but it would work well for e-books.Matt Kellandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04544385872579718596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398250293312747643.post-51976912327540012452011-09-25T09:27:34.299-04:002011-09-25T09:27:34.299-04:00I have to take the blame for suggesting that Roz s...I have to take the blame for suggesting that Roz serialize her book - which is a tad ironic, as I save my monthly comic books until a Hellboy or B.P.R.D. story is complete, and I prefer to get the boxed set of my favorite TV shows so I don't have the unbearable wait between cliffhangers. <br /><br />Still, it seems that as an experiment it has worked. People have got on and started reading Future Life right away, whereas print books are often bought and left lying around the house for months. (If I'm a typical reader, that is.)<br /><br />It'll be interesting to see how ebooks shift how fiction is read Will we see more short stories and novellas? More ongoing series fiction like Yesterday's Gone? A return to the gutsy lowbrow yarns of the pulp era? And perhaps at the same time there'll be more huge sprawling <i>romans-fleuves</i>? <br /><br />An era of Burgess Shale diversity will come before the new patterns settle down. Should be interesting.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398250293312747643.post-59508647279956981832011-09-24T14:12:01.603-04:002011-09-24T14:12:01.603-04:00Gulp - Matt, thank you! Actually, I totally agree ...Gulp - Matt, thank you! Actually, I totally agree about the episode format. In these days of LoveFilm and DVD box sets I'm drivenmad by having to wait. Sorry for inflicting such frustration on you. <br />As a marketing plan... of course it's hard to know what would have happened if I'd released it the conventional way, but I'm sure I have managed to generate a lot more publicity for the book than if I'd had a one-shot launch. I've just recorded an interview with www.thecreativepenn.com which will be released soon, so there will be more about it there. Afterwards if people still have unanswered questions I'll do a blog post about it.<br />I will tell you this, though: after four launches in four weeks I'm feeling like a wrung-out past life.Roz Morris aka @Roz_Morris . Blog: Nail Your Novelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088813423467048081noreply@blogger.com