The Daily Novel & Celia Hayes

They say there’s nothing new under the sun, and everything old becomes new again…if you just wait around long enough.

Back in the 19th century, authors now considered literary greats earned their bread and butter by serializing their works in daily newspapers, magazines, and periodicals. Among them were numbered Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. These men developed a following through the medium of small bites of literature doled out on a regular basis.

Now and again this has been tried in various print publications with varying degrees of success. Today, with the increased respectability of Internet publishing, many writers now offer their works in this manner, serializing their novels and anthologies in daily, weekly, and monthly doses. The science-fiction writer, John Scalzi who serialized his futuristic adventure “Old Man’s War” late in 2002 comes to mind.

A recent, ambitious version on this concept is the website The Daily Novel. Created by web entrepreneur Robert Hayes (“Doc Rocket”) and his editing partner, published author/professional ghost writer Cynthia McGregor, these two experienced professionals run a firm which provides content for commercial websites and publications.

The Daily Novel runs four novels at a time, with a new chapter every day. As each book concludes, another begins. There is a pleasing variety among the selections offered, including mystery, chick-lit, science fiction, and historical fiction. The Deepening is proud to announce that our historical fiction editor Celia Hayes’s first novel To Truckee’s Trail is among the current selections available at The Daily Novel.

Following serial publication, each novel also will be available as an e-book. It is hoped – not least by the editor and owner of the site – that novice as well as relatively unknown novelists will gain a wider exposure for their work, and, perhaps, some day, also gain some measure of their 19th century predecessors’ level of success.

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