SquidNovels
Ever wanted to write a book, but never had enough support?
Ever wanted to get something published without a publishing house?
The new SquidNovels group is for you, the task of writing a novel is daunting, scary even, but we're here to make sure you enjoy the experience. Here you will learn about our picaresque novel challenge, getting published with lulu and more. Remember to join the group you have to be a part of the ComeJam. Relax its free and always will be. Any one can join however no matter what your interest is unless of course you don't meet the minimum age requirement of ComeJam which is 18 for legal reasons.
Ever wanted to get something published without a publishing house?
The new SquidNovels group is for you, the task of writing a novel is daunting, scary even, but we're here to make sure you enjoy the experience. Here you will learn about our picaresque novel challenge, getting published with lulu and more. Remember to join the group you have to be a part of the ComeJam. Relax its free and always will be. Any one can join however no matter what your interest is unless of course you don't meet the minimum age requirement of ComeJam which is 18 for legal reasons.
What? Novels on Squidoo?
Squidoo's simplistic HTML editing features make it really easy to write the novel on squidoo. Though I wouldn't recommend putting the whole book on one lens, separate lenses for each part is surely a very enticing opportunity. You can earn commission from each of the lenses, and even if it isn't much, if you have enough it won't really matter too much. They are also great places to sell merchandise from cafepress as long as its your book's merchandise and of course as ever its a good place to sell your book. You could for instance create a book and publish only certain lenses. Or you could publish the whole thing and offer the book as an option. We here at SquidNovels will guide you on your way to the creation and publishing of lenses and books.
A book in 25 lens - A years challenge.
Pace yourself!
A massive problem for a new author is often pacing themselves. If you don't pace yourself you often run out of steam and begin to veer off into different books. So I have created a challenge, one part per 2 weeks. This is a picaresque style. When I say 25 lenses I usually create 2 chapters per lens.To join the challenge and get reviews.
Create a blog on the site, Blogger or Wordpress. Next create a discussion topic with a link to your blog, after you have done this it is time to bookmark the discussion topic. Now whenever you place a new part of the novel, we will look at your lens. Then we give you feedback. Though I will be able to give better feedback and suggestions on a book lens, any type of lens can be applied to this even if it isn't in a series. When you finish the 25 lens series, I will give you a special image (How cool is that?) for you to display on all your lenses. This image can only be displayed by people who have completed the challenge. These are the terms of the copyright on this image ©2010 ComeJam enterprises.
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Sources for new novelists.
Need some help with your squidnovel?
Here are some sites that you may need to help you!
- Maggie Stiefvater
- Suggested by someone in the guestbook this is a great place to find information that will help you on your way to writing a book!
- UniBook
- |Have a book ready to publish? Free self publishing with UniBook. No setup fees, long term contracts or hidden charges.
Featured lenses
Featured lenses, this is for contents pages of books leave a note in the guestbook with the link to your contents page to get it listed here :)
Want to join the group, confused?
Post your problem here (no, squidoo related only)
You can also leave me a nice personal note to make my day nice and happy!
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Ramkitten
Jan 18, 2010 @ 2:54 pm | delete
- This is a really nice idea. I'm a writer, including two novels, but I'm putting just the prologues and/or first chapters on Squidoo. Then I direct people to Amazon or my own website, where they can purchase the books either in softcover or on Kindle. But, for some folks, writing a whole novel on Squidoo might be a great way to use the site for their creative writing. I think it's great that you're promoting that idea.
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ComeJam
Jan 18, 2010 @ 5:00 pm | delete
- I would be happy to link to your novel on amazon if you give me a link, and also to your squidoo pages, to me it doesn't matter how you publish, I just want to make it easy fast and fun to do it!
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makingamark
Jan 17, 2010 @ 6:04 am | delete
- How about listing sources of good advice about novel writing on this lens (or another one) as well?
My cyber chum Maggie Stiefvater is a novelist. Her novel "Shiver" is currently #2 on Amazon's Top Ten Books for Teens in 2009 and has now notched up 25 weeks in the New York Times Best Sellers list. She offers lots of good advice to would-be novelists in her blog 'Words on Words'.
Read about her in my lens Is Maggie Stiefvater the next JK Rowling?
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ComeJam
Jan 18, 2010 @ 4:12 am | delete
- I have now done this, thank you for the advice :D
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