A Novel Way to Spend an Hour

We’ve just launched a new website for writers – Sixty Minute Story which has its own website: http://www.sixtyminutestory.com

The Sixty Minute Story is a new story form, designed for our modern day lifestyles – where the entire story fits neatly within a single hour.

As life gets busier and faster, its important to make the most of the small segments of time we do have and the idea behind the Sixty Minute Story is to both:

• Inspire and help authors to write a short story to publish, and to get their short stories read by…
• Encouraging new readers to pick up a short story, knowing that the whole story shouldnt take longer than an hour to complete.

The Sixty Minute Story embraces technology and by being a short, small and mobile read, it would be natural to publish them on small, mobile devices. Which is why the Sixty Minute Story provides ideal reading for eBook readers, netbooks, laptops and cellphones as well as the iPhone and iPod touch.

The Sixty Minute Story is a novel way to spend an hour, and we really feel that here is an opportunity to introduce new writers and to help form new readers.

We are really excited. Just imagine some of the possibilities of writing a story which readers can finish in a single hour… which they can discover and download straight to their mobile device.

Seeking short stories

We are looking to build a section on MeeQi dedicated to Sixty Minute Stories and are looking for short stories of less than 15,000 words, which we can feature and deliver to readers. Simply visit MeeQi.com and upload your story in any eBook formats (pdf, plain text or epub).

You can find lots more information about the Sixty Minute Story on the website – or why not give it a try by downloading Benjamin Button and seeing if you can finish reading that in an hour.