Shya Scanlon

42 wonderful, supportive, active and daring literary journals and blogs have agreed to participate in my Forecast 42 Project. Thank you all for being involved! More soon…

UPDATE: only 1 more chapter is available!

I’m currently in the process of gathering together 42 online journals and/or literary blogs (or any kind of blog, really) to participate in the serialization of Forecast. Each chapter will be posted on a different web site, which will link back to the previous chapter, and forward to the next chapter once it’s live. The result will ultimately be a string of web sites sharing traffic for this project.

I have 41 participants involved so far, 2/3 of which are journals such as Redivider, Keyhole, Opium Magazine, and Puerto del Sol, the rest of which are blogs like Emerging Writers Network, HTMLGIANT, and Matt Bell. If you feel like being involved, or have any recommendations for people who might, please let me know, or forward this post along to that special someone.

I have delusions of grandeur, of course–not so much about Forecast, but about figuring out a workable template for future online serialization by anyone with a story to tell. The great thing about this is it leverages the promotional potential of many different people and readerships, and also brings those readers to new sites, and to other material they might not normally have discovered. If done right, it could be one of those rare “everybody wins” scenarios.

Anyway, as I said, let me know if you have any ideas. This is all new, so I’m open to suggestions.

The excerpt of FORECAST posted on Monkeybicycle earlier this week has been joined by a podcast of me reading it. Please give it a listen. Points for anyone who can guess what I’m holding in my mouth.

In a coup for free fiction everywhere, Opium Magazine has posted a second excerpt from my novel on their website. This one is from halfway through the book, and begins to tease out the narrator’s perspective, as that narrator gradually emerges as a central character in the story he’s telling. Please read it here.

Monkeybicycle is running an excerpt of FORECAST this week. Having done a lot of work with Monkeybicycle back in the day, it feels great to come full circle with the journal, this time as a contributor!

This excerpt is from the beginning of chapter three.

The first issue of The Chapbook Review has been posted, and it looks like an excellent collection of essays and interviews.  Among them is author Nicolle Elizabeth’s very insightful review of my chapbook Poolsaid.  The review can be read here, and the chapbook itself, which was published by Literary Review last summer, can be downloaded here.

If you intend to download FORECAST, please add it to your reading list on Goodreads! Here is a link to its page. Soon, it will even sport a fancy cover image!

As the first of what will be several excerpts running at various online journals and blogs in the near future, Opium Magazine is currently running an excerpt from my novel FORECAST. Please go take a look! If you like what you read, download the novel back here at my site.

Thanks Opium!

If you happen to be the editor of an online literary journal, or have a literary blog, please consider running an excerpt of my novel FORECAST. I am offering it for free here, and I think publishing sample excerpts of it in various contexts may pique reader interest. I will of course work with you to determine the best excerpt, for both length, format, and tone.

Over the next month or so, excerpts will be appearing online at the following journals: Opium Magazine (x2), Monkeybicycle, Word Riot, Everyday Genius, Necessary Fiction, Lamination Colony, Dogzplot, and the blogs of Matt Bell, Matt Briggs, and John Madera. Could your journal be next?!?!?! Man, I hope so.

If you’re interested in talking with me about participating in this experiment, please contact me.

i’ll be hosting an elimae reading at kgb bar this tuesday, may 26th. starts at 7pm. readers include but may not be limited to Ben Mirov, Matthew Simmons, Molly Gaundry, Kim Chinquee, Lincoln Michel, Rozalia Jovanovic, Kimberly King Parsons, Justin Taylor, Nicolle Elizabeth, Tao Lin, Nick Antosca, Todd Zuniga, Dennis DiClaudio, John Madera, Timmy Waldron, Terese Svoboda, Barry Graham, Dawn Raffel, Sasha Grayboch, Eric Nusbaum, James Yeh, and myself.

at the risk of undermining what elimae is all about, it’s going to be epic.