Forum / secret novel society

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  brian warfield

  Mar 28, 11:35pm

  i'm tinkering with this idea to start a secret novel society. wondering if it's idea without a time.

  the basic premise is that there would be a body of literature that was intentionally unpublished and only available to those who submitted to it. full length novels.

  this would not include bad/ rejected novels but only those authors who were interested in pursuing expression outside of ordained publishing. it would be outside of self-publishing even.

  the novels would be held in secret, maybe the authors themselves would be anonymous. it would be art for art sake. it would be weird.

  i wasn't sure how we would get people to join, who would want to. i may just put this idea out into the world and see what happens.

  what do you think?

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  Darryl Price

  Mar 29, 03:47am

  I like it. My head is full of novels that no one will ever see or read.

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  Gita M. Smith

  Apr 02, 06:53pm

  In what order would we be allowed to read the novels? Would they sit on shelves, as if in a library, or would a curator mete them out one at a time according to some secret criteria?

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  brian warfield

  Apr 04, 06:54am

  a. i like the idea of a library.
  b. or there would be a link for members to purchase books. they'd probably have to be printed on demand unless reading of books was a requirement of being in the society and there were over a hundred members to make large scale printing worthwhile.
  c. i also thought ebooks might be a way to go although i don't have an ereader and this is mostly about me and what i want.
  d. i was wondering how we would get people interested in this group if it was a secret society. but then i realized that it isn't the society that's a secret, it's the books. so finding a way to keep access limited only to those who have contributed full-length novels.

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  Dolemite

  Apr 04, 05:36pm

  A novel ABOUT a secret novel society might be interesting...

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