No, I don’t mean blogs.

  • “Pro­tag­o­nize was orig­i­nally devised as a lark, test­ing out a new tech­nol­ogy plat­form with what was sup­posed to be a sim­ple, fun idea. When the site launched in late 2007, it was ded­i­cated com­pletely to the (nearly) lost art of the addven­ture (yes, that’s spelled right), a very spe­cific type of col­lab­o­ra­tive fic­tion. Shortly after our ini­tial launch, the site was expanded to sup­port the cre­ation of lin­ear sto­ries, as well, based on user feed­back. This sig­nif­i­cant change allowed the site to attract a much broader com­mu­nity of authors look­ing to hone and refine their cre­ative tal­ents. Since that time, many more updates and addi­tions have been made to enhance our authors’ expe­ri­ence on the site.”
  • “Book Oven* is cloud-publishing: we are an online toolset that enables indi­vid­u­als and groups to make, improve, pub­lish, and sell print books and ebooks. Book Oven is designed for inde­pen­dent writ­ers and small presses.”
  • “Fic­tio­naut** brings the social web to lit­er­ary fic­tion, con­nect­ing read­ers and writ­ers through a com­mu­nity net­work that dou­bles as self­-selecting mag­a­zine high­light­ing the most excit­ing short sto­ries, poetry, flash fic­tion, and novel excerpts.”

*Book Oven is very much in beta and does not yet sup­port direct print-on-demand pub­lish­ing
**Fic­tio­naut is invite only at this time.