“The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” the poet Muriel Rukeyser once said. Human beings are storytelling creatures. Think of the best presentations or TED Talks you’ve heard, and chances are the most inspirational ones have been where the presenter used stories and pictures to convey his or her message. For over 40,000 years – at least that’s how old we think the first cave paintings are – telling stories has been one of our most fundamental communication methods.…

Big News! We have launched our language learning app into Google Play Store Beta. Support authors from all over the world make a living through their work while learning a language!   LingoBites is a new way to practice a language using short stories written by talented authors from around the world. We’ve combined the best of modern language learning techniques with great stories to help language students learn without even thinking about it. Access entertaining stories in different genres based on…

Do you have a character that you just can’t stop writing about? They might be a detective solving crimes, a zombie that just can’t die, or a traveller on an epic journey around the world. These kinds of characters, and their adventures, make for a great serial. Serials are short instalments of a larger story, all tied together through the characters and often through an overarching “meta-story”. Think of it like a good TV mini-series: each episode has a beginning, middle,…