Chris Jay Becker's World Domination Tour...

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What? Oh, nevermind. Anyway, my name is Chris. I recently published my first Mystery/Crime novel "Death in the Fast Lane" featuring LAPD Det. T.S. 'King' Leary. Look me up on Amazon.

"Fast Lane" recently spent a few days on the Amazon Kindle bestseller lists in the UK, Germany, and France. This fulfills my lifelong desire to be more popular in both Germany and France than I am in the U.S.... like a Crime Writer version of Jerry Lewis AND David Hasselhoff. Hey, a boy can dream, right?

Seriously, though, as my author bio always says, ad nauseum, I am a fourth-generation Angeleno, the only child of two heroin-addicts/ex-cons, raised partially by my Vaudeville comedian grandpa. I'm a veteran stand-up comic, an ASCAP songwriter and music publisher, a music journalist, and I've written a screenplay or three. I'm also working on a comic memoir about my dysfunctional family, tentatively titled "Our Mamas' Hooker Names."

I sincerely look forward to meeting all of you here, and reading your work.

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Author "Death in the Fast Lane."
http://www.chrisjaybecker.com
Twitter: @KingLeary

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Hi Chris! Welcome to Weblit. The forum's been kinda quiet lately. Do you serialize your work anywhere online? That's what most of us here at least started out doing. It's been a great way to build an audience.

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Hi MeiLin! No. I haven't really started serializing anything online, although I did pub a couple installments of my memoir on Wattpad and also on some weirdly named site whose name I forget.

I will start serializing my second King Leary novel "The Meaning of Death" soon, as I write it. Plus, I'm tempted to serialize the first Leary novel"Death in the Fast Lane" here, too, once my digital-rights exclusive with Amazon is over in a couple weeks. Can we serialized already published works here?

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Not here, no. This site is dedicated to sharing promotional ideas only. I suggest a multi-pronged serialization myself, kinda similar to what some web comics artists do--or at least a two-pronged approach: Wattpad and on your own site. If you have time to put it up elsewhere, do that as well. Keep your "episodes" short--no more than 2,000 words and really closer to 1,000--and be sure to state at the end that they can read the whole thing right now in the ebook version which is at....blah blah blah. It's worked for me. Smile Though I haven't put much up at Wattpad. I think my work has too much adult content for Wattpad, at least my major work. Anyway, good luck!

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