Do You Like Reading Fiction on the Web?

Out of all the sites I’ve seen that contain listings for online novels, the Web Fiction Guide is by far the best. It’s pretty to look at and easy to navigate. As the site’s developer explains on his blog, a lot of thought was put into creating functionality for the site’s readers.

Chris Poirier launched webfictionguide.com in July of 2008. Chris is a software developer based in Toronto. You can find his serial novel, Winter Rain, listed on the site.

Chris reviews fiction along with eight other editors. Some of them write. Others don’t. All of them seem similarly committed to the quality of this project.

In Chris’s words, “Surely there should be a way to help people writing quality online fiction to connect with people who want to find good stuff to read. A way to combine the power of personal recommendation with a constant stream of new stories—where authors don’t have to wait for someone ‘influential’ to discover them.”

The Web Fiction Guide lists all kinds of fiction – at the time of this writing, I have the pleasure of seeing a thumbnail screen shot of Servicing the Pole listed on the same page as Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother.

Rather than being author-centric, this guide seems like an honest attempt to give readers more options. If you read a lot and you like to discover new writers, but you also want to know the work’s been “vetted” before you dive in, this may be the place for you.

Servicing the Pole is listed right here. Go have a look around the site, and hey, if you find anything you really adore over there, do us a favor and tell ‘em I sent you!