The Alkahest, The Sussex Deal, published 1 chapter at a time

[Alexnl]

I came across and interesting book concept today. An author, by the name of Alandra CL, appears to be publishing an on-going story on her site. Although when you get to the website, she is promoting a fantasy novel, called "The Alkahest", a little further digging revealed a short story, called "The Sussex Deal". I read the first chapter and its pretty suspenseful. She's promising the next chapter in a couple of days. It leaves you hanging, and its well written.

[Gfilm]

Its good she is self publishing.

It is seriously difficult to get a book published nowadays even with a book agent.

[Alexnl]

I'm not familiar with the publishing industry, but I can imagine its competitive and requires a substantial investment by the publisher and without knowing whether the book will sell, it is a risk.

And now with eBooks and the internet, an author can get their name out there without having to be published. It's kind a cool actually. Opens things up.

I'm still a big fan of reading a paperback or hardcover. But I'm guessing eventually it'll all go digital. Hopefully my large collection will be worth something in 80 years from now!! lol

[Vogin]

I must be really broken from my university, I've read this and immediately thought "damn, good PR (as in Public Relations) move"

But yeah, the story looks very interesting.

[Alexnl]

I read the first chapter and apparently the next chapter is coming out today or tomorrow. It'll be interesting to see how the story moves along. I might download it to my iPod though, I'm not a big fan of reading online and I don't have an ereader yet.

[Moore]

Due to the Internet today it is posbile to publish your books even without any paper versions at all. Adn what is more important you can do withou any help at all.