Read a good text novel lately? What's a text novel you ask? A novel you read on your cell phone, of course. That's right, I said on your cell phone. The story is downloaded to your phone as a text message. Seem strange to you? Well it seemed like that to me as well, so after reading an article about this literary phenomenon at CNN online, I decided to investigate and what I discovered was a great site called Textnovel.com. A site devoted to just this type of thing-reading stories straight from your cell phone, via your e-mail inbox or directly on the website. These stories are delivered as they are posted online to readers who subscribe-FOR FREE.

No-I did-not-just-use-the-“F”-word.

Yes, I did!

F-R-E-E.

Authors or aspiring authors post their stories in the old “serial” style-in short increments of 500 words or so per chapter. Interested readers can browse the site and subscribe to any of the posted stories they’d like. By doing so, they receive updates on new chapters via their e-mail or cell phone.

What a great idea, you say? Well, you’re not the only one who feels that way. In fact, Dorchester Publishing seems interested as well. They’ve joined with Textnovel.com to offer a contest to authors and aspiring authors interested in publishing in this format. Dorchester Publishing’s “Best Celler” Contest runs until November 1st and yours truly has entered.

I decided to enter Dorchester Publishing’s contest by posting a sneak peek of my new urban fantasy, GOLD: HEART OF A WARRIOR on the Textnovel site in increments of 500 (or so) words per chapter. This sneak peek is written under my new pen name, E. R. Mitchell, so if you peruse the site and put the title in the search book, my new pen name will pop up as the author. I have about 21 chapters up on the site right now, and would love to know what you think of my latest work as well as the whole Text Novel idea.

Please swing by www.textnovel.com and vote for HEART OF A WARRIOR by clicking the thumbs up symbol next to my title. If you’d like to receive chapter updates as more of the story is posted, don’t forget to also click on the subscribe button (looks like a cell phone symbol) next to the title. You will be asked to join Textnovel.com, but as I mentioned it’s free and no strings attached. This site is a great resource for new books, new authors and last but not least, FREE reads!

Please vote for my new E. R. Mitchell story, HEART OF A WARRIOR at http://www.textnovel.combefore November 1st and let me know what you think of my latest work in the comments section or by dropping a note to me at edenrobins@gmail.com

Happy Reading!
Best,

Eden Robins