It is safe to say that there are innumerable more unfinished novels out there then there are published ones. Now, thanks to Steve Wilson, a six-time failed novelist himself, the unfinished novel now has a final online resting place. My Unfinished Novels is place where your creative failures are welcome with open arms and a sprinkling of dignity.Each unfinished novel submitted gets its own post which includes a summary of the work, an excerpt from the book's beginning and the reason why the project was abandoned. Thanks to Booked: Reading Unbound for the lead
Winslow Homer and the Women of “The New Novel”
The New Novel. Watercolor, 1877.In 1877, Winslow Homer exhibited his watercolor, The New Novel, at an exhibition of the American Watercolor Society.It is an image that below its surface of innocent, leisurely repose churns a contemporary cultural scene fraught with change and fear; the culture-war in the U.S. had begun.“...Avoid also all those miserable sensational...novels and illustrated papers which are so profusely scattered around on every side. The demand which exists for such garbage speaks badly for the moral sense and intellectual training of those who read them...The extent to which the press is used in the publication of romance...