Twitter: a free social networking/micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users' updates of up to 140 characters in length.
Thaumatrope: A sci-fi/fantasy/horror online fiction magazine that uses Twitter to accept and publish speculative fiction of 140 characters or less.
What a crazy, great idea. They pay authors $1.20 per story. That's almost two plates of Pad Thai. I just might get in on this.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention, you can read Thaumatrope for free. Either on their website or, for instant gratification, via Twitter. And because it's Twitter, you can get these stories sent to your cell phone if you want.
Here's a plug for another author's service that I find useful. I use a site called illumitas.net to publish my novels online. It does a virtual typesetting of my novel into pages and lets me use ads to earn money.
ReplyDeleteClick on my name to see an example.
Kaylee