The Saturday 
morning serial model of the 1950s may be long dead in the film world, but a new eBook publisher is looking to bring it back in a more modern form.
Backlit is producing a string of Young Adult fiction in eBook form, recruiting Hollywood writers to pen the tales, which invariably end with a cliffhanger. It’s a model that, if it works, not only guarantees a fairly predictable revenue stream, but has caught the eye of producers.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call Charlaine 
Harris the new queen of multimedia. The author of the best-selling Southern Vampire Mysteries series has watched it smoothly transition to television in HBO’s “True Bood.” Based on characters from those stories, it’s been a big hit for the potent cable network.
Next up for Harris? Video games, naturally. Dying for Daylight, an adventure game for the PC, opens a new avenue for the 59-year old author.
Chris Morris: Journalist 