It's been more than three years since TextNovel.com went dark, but I hope at least some of you folks out there remember my first cellphone novel, NERVOSA.
What started as a way to keep my hand in when I was having doubts about my place in the writing world ended up becoming the top-rated work in the horror category of the site and the fourth-rated work overall among something like 67,000 total works on the website.
TextNovel is long gone, but you can read NERVOSA and even own a copy, thanks to Full Speed Publishing.
What started as a way to keep my hand in when I was having doubts about my place in the writing world ended up becoming the top-rated work in the horror category of the site and the fourth-rated work overall among something like 67,000 total works on the website.
TextNovel is long gone, but you can read NERVOSA and even own a copy, thanks to Full Speed Publishing.
The #1-rated horror novel on Textnovel.com is available to own at last!
The Parkers are down-on-their-luck, desperately in need of a fresh start and a lucky break. When Rose is sucked into a cycle of recurring dreams filled with monstrously burned and disfigured people, her world unravels and her dreams start to become a nightmarish reality.
The Parkers are down-on-their-luck, desperately in need of a fresh start and a lucky break. When Rose is sucked into a cycle of recurring dreams filled with monstrously burned and disfigured people, her world unravels and her dreams start to become a nightmarish reality.
Cover art by Marcus Muller
For those not aware, there is a style of writing originating in Japan, but popular across Asia, called keitai shousetsu – literally “mobile-phone novel”. Popular primarily among young people, these are novels written in tiny chapters of seventy to a hundred words, written on cellphones, posted on websites (either personal websites or, more likely since the early aughts sites devoted to them), and intended to be read on cellphones. Basically, each chapter is just enough text to display on a cellphone screen without scrolling. A number of works that began as cellphone novels have been adapted to other media, including manga, anime and even live-action. The most famous of these is probably King’s Game, a survival-horror series about a virus that forces people to play the titular game in order to spread itself.
I discovered the phenomenon around 2015. I thought for some time it’d be interesting to try my hand at it. Nervosa is my first attempt. It’s a horror novel that I updated twice a week for nearly two years. At that time, Textnovel.com was no longer as active as it once was. There were still both writers and readers, but many works that began years earlier had been left abandoned, unfinished, by their authors. Posting a brand-new story and updating it regularly gained me an unexpectedly large following on the site. It seems that even those authors still writing their works were only updating sporadically and without intending to, I became the primary provider of content on the site for a while.
During that time, Nervosa jumped up the rankings charts quickly, eventually becoming the number-one-rated work in the horror genre, beating out the former number one by nearly ten-thousand votes and views. Considering the previous work had been on the site for something like six years, I was thrilled and honored to have so many people read and support my work.
I discovered the phenomenon around 2015. I thought for some time it’d be interesting to try my hand at it. Nervosa is my first attempt. It’s a horror novel that I updated twice a week for nearly two years. At that time, Textnovel.com was no longer as active as it once was. There were still both writers and readers, but many works that began years earlier had been left abandoned, unfinished, by their authors. Posting a brand-new story and updating it regularly gained me an unexpectedly large following on the site. It seems that even those authors still writing their works were only updating sporadically and without intending to, I became the primary provider of content on the site for a while.
During that time, Nervosa jumped up the rankings charts quickly, eventually becoming the number-one-rated work in the horror genre, beating out the former number one by nearly ten-thousand votes and views. Considering the previous work had been on the site for something like six years, I was thrilled and honored to have so many people read and support my work.
The print edition is already available and the Kindle edition will be available on 2/2!
Click the link above or the cover image or right here to order your copy!
Click the link above or the cover image or right here to order your copy!
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