Fantasy
Tale of Tales (Ep. 23): Eyes in the Dark
The lord of the night now unveiled his true form, until then still masked in black robes and shadows: his face had completely distorted, his mouth opening into a gape twice as wide as it seemed possible, all his teeth protracting into long fang-like spikes…
Sorores Suas In Sanguine
What if your trauma turned you into a hero?
Chapter 22.6: a deal’s a deal
Every single bit of motion demonstrated by Avi was airtight. He executed some of the more impactful maneuvers in his arsenal first, rather than dazzle the crowd with his usual flash and style. It was as if he didn’t want to waste any more time than necessary. But...
Chapter 22.5: “How about we make this interesting?”
“Wolf,” he addressed Louis, who did not appear to be interested in anything other than violence. “How about we make this interesting?” Louis paused, but stayed in character with a bloodthirsty glare. “If you win this, I leave you and yours alone. For good.” “And if...
Launch Chapters
A well-established and occasionally well-meaning supervillain returns to his territory, taking up the systems he’d left behind while imprisoned. The thief-for-hire is immediately dragged into a difficult job, and tension builds between the parties involved until the...
Also Launch Chapters
Issues 1-3 released on the 25th, and issue 4 is on the way today.
Chapter 22.3: Negotiatons
“So…” Avi started slowly. “I have my match against Louis tonight, but being the Big Bad for now, I was thinking that the stakes should be higher than wins and losses.” “Alright,” Mitch mentally ran through several scenarios in his head as to what Avi could be alluding...
Naming Convention
Sometimes, even when you're making societally altering, life or death decisions, it pays to be petty and obstinate.
Wolf: pt. 4
Oeric finds out specters of the past can show up at the worst of times.
Chapter 21.11: It Mattered
And then eventually -not that night, but weeks or months down the line, after enough time passed from Thanksgiving’s incident and whenever he considered dating again- Mitch wouldn’t be a victim anymore. Not that he ever wanted that label in particular, or even fully...
Humor
Tuesday Serial Guest Post Invitation
We could like to invite you - Tuesday Serial contributors past, present and future and others interested in our community - to consider submitting to our featured Guest Post column. Beginning on September 13, we will have guest post slots available every...
Web Serial Writing Month: The First Writing Challenge for Serialized Fiction by Kira Lerner
We are pleased to welcome Kira Lerner to the Tuesday Serial site today to tell us about Web Serial Writing Month. Kira is one of our contributors, the cofounder and administrator of EpiGuide and the driving force behind WeSeWriMo. We are always happy to support our...
Hooking Up Versus Going It Alone: What’s a Lonely Serial To Do?
We received an inquiry from a serial writer this week and we decided to turn the question back to our serial community. Our writer, let's call him Wallace the Writer, inquires: "I am wondering what the advantages are to using an online serial service like Wattpad and...
Hall of Fame: “I Know You Know”
The TuesdaySerial team is happy to congratulate Helen Howell on the publication this week of I Know You Know, a psychic thriller which had a run as a webserial last year. I Know You Know is published by Crooked Cat Books. From the blurb from the back of the book: Who...
Tuesday Serial 2012 Recap
If you're looking for the collector or the report this week, you'll have to wait another week. We decided to take a much-deserved vacation this week. Instead of collecting more serial installments this week, we decided to share a brief recap of 2012 with you. Over the...
“JukePop Serials: Call for Submissions” by Jerry Fan
With the recent revival of serial fiction (some, like us at Tuesday Serial, would argue that it has been popular all along), we are seeing an increase in the number of publishers seeking out serial fiction. These efforts were underway prior to Amazon's announcement of...
“From Webfiction to Print: 9.5 Steps to Turn Your Serial Into a Book” by A.M. Harte
A.M. Harte has been a friend of and contributor to Tuesday Serial and has been involved in the serial fiction community as a writer, editor, commentator and more. We are pleased to welcome her here today as she launches her blog tour for "Above Ground" - her first...
“St. Martin’s Griffin E-serials: Call for Submissions” by Matt Martz
An interesting thing has happened since the recent announcement of Kindle Serials: it has brought serial fiction into the spotlight once again (although for some of us it never left the spotlight). Additionally, many publishers - besides Amazon - have come forward...
“Eleven Cliffhangers for Your Serial Fiction” by KM Weiland
We've been very focused on the publishing process recently here at Tuesday Serial and this week we'd like to shift gears. If you don't know KM Weiland, then allow me to introduce her. She is a lovely writer and is the genius behind the writer's website "Word Play"...
“Amazon Turns the World of Web Serials on its Head” by PJ Kaiser
When it comes to publishing serial stories, writers have faced a conundrum. There are very few online formats that lend themselves to publishing installments. Smashwards specifically disallows unfinished works, and Amazon and Barnes & Noble force the publisher to...
