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The new literary phenomenon: The Twiller

Posted Mar 18, 2009

Now that Twitter has exploded - texting novels in real time is set to become a mainstream publishing phenomenon. It's time to turn your tweets into a book...

Last summer, writer Matt Richtel used Twitter to write a real-time thriller on Twitter and hence the name "Twiller" was born.

Described as "an experiment in a new medium" the idea captured the coming zeitgeist. Read it here twitter.com/mrichtel. Here at swide we predict Matt's experiment is only the beginning of a new-wave of writer disoveries.

Bored of fairytale blog publishing deals - in Japan the cell phone novel has already moved from a little-known subgenre to a mainstream literary phenomenon.

According to CNN "Keitai shosetsu" (cellphone novel) sites such as Mobage Town receive billions of monthly users. Publishers then cherry-pick the best cellular stories to turn into paperbacks which go on to sell millions of copies.

One such cell phone novel star is - Yume Hotaru who wrote the novel, "First Experience," a story about love and sex in high school entirely on his cell-phone. Typing individual sentences and uploading each one straight to the mobile social networking site Mobage-town, the more Yume Hotaru posted, the more popular his story became. Eventually it was picked up by publishers and turned into a book eventually becoming a best-seller.

According to CNN'S feature - the diary-like stories are written and read mostly by young women in their teens and 20's and feature topics that are rarely discussed elsewhere.

Swide's publishing money is on Lindsay Lohan's tweets (currently suspended at time of post sadly...)

Source: CNN

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