Penguin Random House and Crown Publishing Group are launching an email newsletter fiction series.
The “Season of Stories” is an eleven-week serialized newsletter that begins on Tuesday October 11, and runs through the end of December. Every Tuesday through the fall, the free newsletter will feature a select short work of fiction from authors including: Anthony Marra, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Adam Johnson, and Elizabeth McCracken, among others.
Subscribers will be able to purchase the full collection that the story is featured in at the end of the newsletter directly from the publisher or through a retail partner.
“We created Season of Stories to connect with readers where they spend so much of their time—their email. Our mission is to make participants’ inboxes a more literary space, with great stories, and to help them discover previously unfamiliar authors,” stated Alana Buckbee, assistant director of community development at Crown Publishing Group. “The program’s emails are the perfect length to dive into while waiting in line, commuting, or during a lunch break.”