I'm an impatient reader.  Wait times between books irritate me honestly.  It was more of a problem when I was younger and wasn't able to scour the bookstore or Amazon for a new series or author to tide me over, but its still something I get tetchy over.

So the idea of a serialized novel or story, for whatever reason, shouldn't appeal to me right*?  Instead of a whole NOVEL to satisfy me, there's a chapter or two an update.  Instead of being able to devote hours to a story, its at most a hour. 

Yet I find myself following serialized books(**). 

CLEAN SWEEP by Ilona Andrews (linkage)
This is a side project for them that has nothing to do with any of their current worlds.  Its updated regularly, though sometimes not quite in chronological order...

VELVETEEN VS ... by Seanan McGuire (linkage)
Another side project, these started some years ago and were just kind of 'Hey look how cool!' sorts of stories posted on her LJ.  Now there's a book for it and there's plans for a second book for the stories.

THE BOSS by Abigail Barnette (linkage)
Barnette is a pseudonym for Jenny Trout (which is, in and of itself a pseudonym), y'all may remember she does the 50 Shades trilogy recaps?  Well she decided to put her talent where her snark is and try her hand at writing a 50 Shades-esque erotica. 

Brandon Sanderson's Annotations of his Books (linkage)
Okay this isn't REALLY a novel, just his little extras and commentary (the director's commentary track if you would) for all his (solo) books.  Right now he's on the Alcatraz books, but I can't wait for the 'Way of Kings' annotations. 


(*) I want to point out that for much of my teen years, since I had exhausted my library's reading material and was not at that point going to the bookstore every other day to replenish my personal stash of books, I read fanfiction quite extensively.  Mainly Sailor Moon, Teen Titans and Inu-Yasha. And some of those fanfics got looooong (looking at you Guardians of the Millennium).

As any reader of fanfic knows sometimes authors will update regularly and frequently, sometimes they'll go eons between chapters and sometimes they are abandoned completely because the 'muse' has left themor they left the fandom, so that was a built in expectation.  Less so with books, since these folks are being paid to entertain me so why aren't they entertaining me quicker? (I can be very selfish at times)

How about everyone else?  Do you guys read serialized novels?  I know Shannon Delany's 13 to Life series began in a similar fashion (text novels are basically this after all).  Anything else good?