August News Roundup

Some Interesting News Bits happening in the Blog Fiction World. Some old, some recent, all of it was news to me in the last month.

Novelr taking a semi-break
Eli James has let us know of a planned "study break" until December. Unfortunately, that means a lot fewer posts. The online fiction community never seems quite right when we're deprived of Eli's insight.

Pages Unbound is closing down.
In a sad move, Pages Unbound is shutting down. Alexandra Erin didn't have enough time to run the review site and forums. Pages Unbound was a busy, well frequented site, and a great resource for finding quality fiction online. It's absence will leave a huge gap and need. Fortunately, another site has risen to fill that need. Which brings us to the next news bit...

Web Fiction Guide now has forums
In response to the loss of Pages Unbound, the editors at Web Fiction Guide installed a forum. The forum isn't Blog Fiction centric, but covers all online fiction which include Blog Fiction.

Seeing Blog Fiction published
This is really old news, but Undead Man Blogging is working on getting published. Still waiting to hear about Star Islanders being published.

New Blog Fiction
I found 2 new blog fiction sites: Death's Blog which is still active, and BlogPaige which is not.

Unknown Ship, Unknown Planet gone.
Unknown Ship, Unknown Planet has done a disappearing act. One that would make "Life in Bear Country" jealous.

Unannounced Leaves
Unfortunately, there are a lot of blog fiction sites that seem to be taking unannounced leaves.
A while ago, Fleet Commander teased us with a possible comeback. Unfortunately it didn't materialize.
The three Super Hero blogs, of Leroy and Enigma have not had a post since July 8th. Hopefully they weren't defeated by a super villain. Terra is still blogging sporadically.
Peep this Diary also teased us with a comeback. With only 2 posts back in early July and none since, it may have been premature to call it a comeback.

What was news to you this past month?

Super Hero Invasion

I guess it's super hero week this week. Yesterday I posted about the batman marketers. Today is a follow up to the Super Hero blogs I talked about a while ago.

The characters all exist in the same "world". Each of the blogs references the other 4. Sometimes the characters will even comment on each other's blog. All of the 5 characters have their own Blogger account. So I don't know if it's 5 people on each blog or if it's 1 person writing all of it on 5 accounts.

Well, I've been visited by the authors and, as it turns out, there is one writer for each blog. That's awesome. Currently, That makes it the only [update:] one of a few(see these two related blogs) still running Blog Fiction that uses the Many to Many format. On top of that it's one of the first successful Blog Fictions that's written by more than one person.

Super Hero characters dominated the Golden Age of comic books and is what made earned them a permanent ficture in our popular culture. It would be an interesting historical coincidence if it was Super Hero characters that helped launch the Blog Fiction genre.

Anyways, if you haven't already, go check out the blogs. I haven't listed them in the sidebar yet, because I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to arrange their feeds.
Leroy J. Power
Terra Stone aka Elemental
The Enigma Known As Brice
Mr. E. aka weird Wellington "Edwin" Mallard

SuperHero Blogs

Here is an awesome find for blog fiction readers. I found 5 fiction blogs written by "Super Heroes". They are written by original characters who have superpowers. It follows their struggle to get by in life.

The characters all exist in the same "world". Each of the blogs references the other 4. Sometimes the characters will even comment on each other's blog. All of the 5 characters have their own Blogger account. So I don't know if it's 5 people on each blog or if it's 1 person writing all of it on 5 accounts. I will say this, if it is just one person writing all 5 of the blogs that person is one busy person! The blogs all started a couple months ago and have a lot of posts already.

I'll be reading these. I'll be interested how entangled the lives of the characters get with each other. There's a lot of backlog for me to catch up on. Their lives may already be entangled and I just don't know it yet. Here's the links to each of the blogs:

Leroy J. Power
Terra Stone aka Elemental
Ean Iago
The Enigma Known As Brice
Mr. E. aka weird Wellington "Edwin" Mallard

One more thing. Just to give credit to originality, It looks like Up and Away served as the inspiration for these 5 blogs. Up and Away was the blog fiction that I found yesterday.