Jokezine.com has bought the serial rights to Casey Flynn's 'Light and Shade,' a satire of a Midwestern going to an Eastern university.
For the next four months, it will serialize the novel with a new part being posted each Sunday.
Jokezine.com is actively looking for other humorous or satirical novels or nonfiction books to serialize. Additionally we are always looking for freelance humor articles and short stories.
Serialization of novels and nonfiction books was very common in the 19th and early part of the 20th century. Internet e-zines are ideal vehicles for books to be serialized. It is an economical way to determine whether a book works and is entertaining.
Reviews for 'Light and Shade':
"The episodes explode one after the other like fireworks on a stormy night. No doubt about it, this book is destined to become a classic." The Washington Post Review.
"A grand comic fugue." The New York Times Book Review.
"A laugh out loud riot, extravagant, lunatic, satiric, but it is above all genuine, skillful, and unsentimentally comic." Rolling Stone Magazine
"An instant classic of satire." Kirkus Reviews
"One of the funniest books ever written." Christian Science Monitor Review
Light and Shade
by Casey Flynn
"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade."
'Anna Karenina' I, ch.11 Leo Tolstoy
Click links to read the chapters of 'Light and Shade.' Feel free to send comments or corrections to the e-mail link on the front page.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4 and 5
