About
About the Site
Internet Ready Fiction is the meeting point of two great ideas. In 2007, not long after Mike Flynn bought me my first e-book reader (a Sony PRS-300, mind you), we started to discover that newer original content wasn’t–and still isn’t–much cheaper than a paperback book. “Project Gutenberg has my respect,” remarks Mike. “It has some cool books, but I was looking for more contemporary stuff.” And for the record, he’s believes the $9.99 e-book should be more like a $1.99 e-book. It was in this idealistic moment that we decided to start a website. Internet Ready Fiction started as a place where my fiction-writing friends could start collecting our short pieces for a future of anthologies, a place where we could build readership and respect in the community, and as a place where readers could find solace in only lightly-monetized fiction. As of yet, nothing is for sale, and after three years, we kinda like it that way.
With a few years, a graduate degree, and great changes in the industry, I’ve realized how important it is to focus scholarly attention on publishing. Social media has catalyzed the chatter and hearsay about digital publishing into a deafening roar. In my own small communities in the industry, so few people were sharing facts and figures with each other that I made scholarship and analysis a personal priority. IRFiction.com just happens to be the place I’ve begun collecting my thoughts and research. Two projects, both completed for my master’s studies at Emerson College, focus on the digital future of publishing. One surveys impact of digital rights management and contract law on the products the publishing industry creates, and the other (my master’s thesis) on the business models for publishers working to beat the odds and survive the digital transition.
With the promise of a limitless future in publishing, IRFiction will remain dedicated to responsibly creating content and encouraging thoughtful investigations of an industry as dear to us as the books we were raised to love.
Here’s to good reading, great books, and more to come,
~ Victoria Sandbrook
About the Staff
Victoria Sandbrook, Editor-in-Chief, Author at Internet Ready Fiction. As the infamous, formerly-remotely-based girlfriend of IRFiction history, Tori takes full responsibility for the content on and the development of this site. After relocating much closer to her boyfriend and co-creator, she spent two and a half years as a New Media Assistant at Bedford/St. Martin’s and her nights as a masked avenger of sloppy copy and almost-finished homework at Emerson College. Late in 2009, she became an Associate editor at Adams Media, acquiring all (practically) breeds of commercial non-fiction, and completed her M.A. in Publishing and Writing. When she reads, she usually picks up a dense classic novel or something someone else recommended to her to keep her from burying her nose in Pride and Prejudice or Jayne Eyre or Ella Enchanted or Crime and Punishment for the umpteenth time. Her preferred writing genres are magical realism, fantasy, sci-fi, and “short short fiction.” To see more of her work, visit her personal blog: Blue-Stockings. To contact her, e-mail vsandbrook (at) gmail (dot) com.
Mike Flynn, Co-Creator, Web Manager. As the mastermind behind McFlynn.com, Cosmic-Cafe, and Flynn Tribe, Mike brings years of web experience to the IRFiction table. His devotion to the future of electronic publishing inspired IRFiction, and his insistence that his girlfriend actually start writing again made the grand plan for the site more than just an idle thought. While his role at IRFiction includes inspiring the administration into action and financially backing the operation, he diversifies his days by enjoying his e-books with a beautiful Corgi by his side.
About the Authors and Contributors
Lynz, Author, BookWeb Participant. By day, Lynz is very much the professional “Clark Kent” of her government-based job as the assistant City Clerk; by night, she removes the black-framed glasses and loses the annoyingly cute stutter to become her more confident (and more attractive) other half. She is a goddess, an immortal, a vampire, and a shopkeeper–all through the characters whose stories she so faithfully writes. Her secret identity is kept secret; she shall only be referred to by her heroic name on this site. Her daytime life must be protected, after all–the same as all other notable and worthy superheroes.
*More Author and Contributor profiles to follow*
