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Author tweets his first novel, 140 characters at a time
By Leigh K Cunningham
July 15, 2009
By Leigh K Cunningham
July 15, 2009
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Matt Stewart, a San Francisco-based novelist, began tweeting his first book, The French Revolution, on 14 July 2009. "As far as I can tell, I'm the first person to release a completed full-length literary novel on Twitter," he wrote on his website, thefrenchrev.com Matt said putting the book on Twitter was a "social experiment" to "see how the world reacts to a long-form tale told in snippets." He said it would take approximately 3,700 tweets to transmit the 480,000 characters in his book, and he did not expect most people to read all the tweets. For modern-day readers with a Kindle, The French Revolution is available on Amazon.com. Matt is already at work on his next novel, Duct Tape, which is about a homeless man in search of his imaginary son. |
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