New Publishing Company

For those of you interested in getting published -- there is a new publishing company called Meridian Publishing that will allow you to have a contract and they will print books on demand. It's a very exciting concept. I know the publishers and am happy to recommend them and this business model to any aspiring author. Check it out.

Penguin Books - Launches First Wiki Novel

Penguin Books has launched the first web-based wiki novel -- a collaborative novel which can be edited, written or read by anyone online. Using wiki software, this novel should be interesting. It's an experiment of sorts.

The novel will be entitled "A Million Penguins" and is available at www.amillionpenguins.com. It should be a very unique novel with many voices. Hopefully writers who contribute will do so for the purpose of creating a great novel, rather than just messing around.

Although there are no plans to publish the finished book -- if it gets as much publicity as expected, certainly all of the individual authors of the book would want to purchase a copy, so it would be worth publishing. Of course, that depends upon the experiment being a success.