Most of Dickens’ novels were published first of all in serial form in the magazine he edited. Once the serial had finished, the works were republished as a book.
Naturally before the work went into the magazine it would be edited. As the episodes came out he would receive some feedback from his readership. Before the book was published he would respond to that feedback perhaps revising chunks of the novel.
We would like to replicate this with our Sunday Serial. This can be for a collection of short stories or flash fiction, a novel for our Feisty Women or Red Telephone imprints. It could be for one of our non-fiction Feisty Women books. Once we’ve cleared our backlog, we’ll consider other novels. We’re not extending this to children’s novels, though of course we have included young adult.
If this was agreeable to you, we would:
Publish your work chapter by chapter or story by story each Sunday, giving it a light copy edit before publication.
Put the whole story / collection back together and collate all reader comments
Give you two months to respond to any feedback
Re copy-edit the new version (one month)
Get two proof reads completed (two months)
Publish the book
Take down the serial from our site
Use the book for a Saturday Sample once it is out
Go through all of our normal marketing routines
Don’t forget that CafeLit site is now monetized. Any payments for submissions or any payments made through Kofi , minus the fee for Duotrope submissions, are shared 50 /50 between us and our writers. Your excerpt will still also qualify for being included in the appropriate year’s The Best of CafeLit book.
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