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Cell phone novels create a personal space for each individual reader. [10] The cell phone novel is changing reading habits; readers no longer need to physically go to a bookshop and purchase a book. They can go online using their cell phone, download a novel, and read it on their personal mobile phone anywhere, any time they wish.
The first chat fiction platform, Hooked, was created by Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, who were writing a novel and decided to do A/B testing to gauge reader preferences. . They found that most of their target audience of teenagers failed to finish 1,000-word excerpts of best-selling young-adult novels, but read through stories of the same length written as text message conversations.
It is the first book in the 'Internet Girls' series. In 2004, it gained attention for being the first novel written entirely in the style of instant messaging conversation. [2] The novel was a New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and a Book Sense bestseller. "ttyl" is internet slang for "Talk to you later", usually used in texting.
Detective novels generally begin with a mysterious incident (e.g., death). One of the most popular examples is the Sherlock Holmes stories; well-known detective novelists include Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler. [6] Gong'an; Girl detective; Inverted detective story (aka howcatchem) Occult detective; Hardboiled; Historical mystery; Locked ...
The first novel-length hypertext fiction, or hypertext novel, was Robert Arellano's Sunshine 69, published on June 21, 1996, with navigable maps of settings, a nonlinear calendar of scenes, and a character "suitcase" enabling readers to try on nine different points of view.
This is a list of notable books by young authors and of books written by notable writers in their early years. These books were written, or substantially completed, before the author's twentieth birthday. Alexandra Adornetto (born 18 April 1994) wrote her debut novel, The Shadow Thief, when she was 13. It was published in 2007.
First in series of three books. Bel Kaufman: Up the Down Staircase: 1965 memos, notes dropped in the trash can, student papers, lesson plans, notes from students, and letters to a friend from college A classic mid-1960s portrayal of an urban high school that is a microcosm of the New York City school system that was also made into a film Lucy ...
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Novels#Novel and other keyword articles. --P64 16:27, 8 January 2015 (UTC) As I've previously indicated, this article appears to have been originally written in the style of a learned, academic paper by Olaf Simons (talk. I've tried at times to improve it (simplify the writing), but my focus has of necessity been ...