This is going to be fun!
The excellent Chris Meadows (aka Robotech Master) has written an article on serializing novels on the Internet for the weblog at his TeleRead site, which deals with various aspects of electronic reading (e-books, reading on PDAs, online reading,digital libraries, etc.).
Chris is also hosting an online roundtable discussion this weekend on the art of online novel serialization (along the lines of the “Street Performer Protocol”), and he kindly asked me if I’d like to come along and chat with the attendees about the ins and outs of publishing the serial novel The Big Meow as I’ve experienced them so far. So on Saturday, December 16th, at 8 PM UT (that’s 3 PM [US] EST, noon [US] PST), I’ll be there in chatspace (via Talkshoe.com) with the rest of the crowd.
Interested parties are more than welcome to come along and participate! Here’s where it’s happening:
Chris has a how-to page right here with all the necessary details on how to get in / participate. If you just want to listen, you just click on the “listen-only” button on the page and you’re fine. (For the more technically-abled who want to talk as well as listen, you’ll want to be using a SIP-enabled VOIP application such as SJPhone for Windows or XMeeting for OS X, and there’s some coaching here in the Talkshoe forums.)
BTW, to the VoIP newbies among you: I was completely clueless at this, and it only took me about half an hour to get set up. But if you’re a Windows user, I do recommend the VoIP client FWD Communicator [aka Pulver Communicator], which is nice and simple to use.
Anyway, see you there!