Halloween Features winding down

This week we're winding down the last two of our seasonal blognovel features: Dracula will conclude on Sunday with Chapter 27, and Frankenstein will conclude Friday with Chapter 24. Bear in mind that all three seasonal features (including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) will be taken offline on November 1.

In addition to these, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz concludes tomorrow with the diminuitive chapter 24 ("Home Again"), and The War of the Worlds will wrap up with its Epilogue on Monday.

If it seems we'll be left with sparse reading after this week, take heart. Captain Nemo is still guiding us through the waters of the world in his epic adventure, and it's almost time to begin our next round of seasonal features, including Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. But to pass the time, starting November 1 we'll be adding two new classic novels to your online reading list.

Never a day without a good book :) Happy reading!

Back from Holiday

We're back online!

As many of you recall, we only publish on weekdays...except for the seasonal features, which we need to get in before the end of the month, and so must publish on weekends as well.

This week, Monday was Thanksgiving for those of us in Canada, and we took the day off. I know...you folks south of the border missed seeing your Monday updates on 20,000 Leagues, War of the Worlds, and The Wizard of Oz. But you'll be fine I'm sure :)

Meanwhile, the publication run on Dracula and Frankenstein continues uninterrupted (except, of course, for yesterday's holiday). By popular demand, we've begun searching for another short story to run as well, which will probably start next week. Keep an eye out for that, and happy reading!

Two More Wraps

Today we were able to present the final chapters of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow -- a short story we rather arbitrarily fractured into four "parts" for easy reading -- and The Time Machine. As with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, both of these stories will remain online. Sleepy Hollow, however, as a seasonal selection, will be coming offline November 1st.

Fret not, however. In November, we'll begin running our Christmas features.

"In November?!" you say?

Yes. Our sponsors want us to begin those features early to give shoppers plenty of time to consider their offers. It really does work for everyone, as readers will be able to get caught up on their Christmas favourites without being interrupted by the holiday shopping rush, and we'll be able to get OUR favourite season up and running sooner (no, not November 1st...probably the 2nd or 3rd week).

Anyway, to get the Hallowe'en features wrapped up before the 31st, we'll be running new chapters on the weekends as well (but not for the regular features). The only exception will be Monday, Oct. 9, which is the Thanksgiving holiday for us in Canada.

To get you thinking about Christmas, here's one of our newest partners. If you have any little people in your life, this will make an amazing gift idea:

Alice Finale

Yes folks, we've reached the end of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. If you missed any of it, don't worry...it's not going anywhere. As a matter of fact, all of our novels, with the exception of the seasonal features, will be staying online as we build our library.

We're currently collecting ISBN numbers to apply to our serial blognovel features as well, so we'll soon be able to offer each story for sale in a paper format online. We're also working on a newsletter that will make it easier for you to keep up with our updates as well as our sponsors' offers.

Again, Chapter 12 of Alice is the last chapter, but the book will remain online. Happy reading!

Halloween Features Running

THEY'RE HERE!

Our Hallowe'en special features are now up and running.

We've had to make some adjustments to the structure of some of the stories. For example, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, while originally a continuous short story, has had to be broken into four parts for ease of reading. It would probably be classed today as a "novella," and certainly the story itself can be read in one sitting. But looking at it published in a blog was just too much text. When we do our paper edition we'll be keeping the original format.

Frankenstein opens with a series of four letters. These we've formatted into a single "chapter" for ease of structure. Tomorrow we'll publish Chapter 1 as it appears in the novel.

Dracula will be published with the chapters in their original format.

All three stories are currently active, and join our ongoing series with daily updates.

Regular readers will notice that our sponsors have changed for the seasonal features. Actually, they haven't changed as such...we've just added more, and will be rotating advertisements. These sponsors are not pay-per-click sponsors as the Google Adsense ads are. These are commissioned sales, so if you're running late looking for your Hallowe'en costumes, accessories, decorations, props, and so on, these would be the places to look. Their direct links are as follows (for the shopping-curious):


BuyCostumes.com

Costume Craze

ExtremeHalloweenNetwork.net: (10% off orders of $75 or more! Use Coupon Code CJ1 during checkout)

HalfPriceCostumes.com

HalloweenOnly - Your one-stop scare shop for all things Halloween!

SpiritHalloween.com