Choose Your Own Adventure Gets an Extreme Makeover

Victoria Blake, publisher of Underland Press, is making news this week after NPR aired a story about the wovel, or Web novel. The way it works is simple: An author writes a small chapter and ends the piece with a decision. The chapter is posted on www.underlandpress.com on Monday, and readers vote until Thursday on what they want to see happen. Once the votes are cast, the author of the chapter writes a new chapter, following the decision the readers voted on. On Monday, a new story is posted until the wovel has ended. In addition to publishing, Blake is a freelance writer and book editor at Dark Horse Comics.