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Lost in Cyberspace

March 13, 2009 Speaking of reading book-length content on a screen, one of the extracurricular projects that has occupied much of my free time for the past year or so has been the writing of a novel called It Might Have Been that tells the story of the staff of a popular computer magazine during the height of the dot-com boom years (1999-2000). It's largely a social satire of those years, as well as a David vs. Goliath story of the publishing industry (easily translatable to any other industry you care to name).

One of the things I have taken away from various writing workshops I have attended in the past couple of years is that one strategy that successful authors have started using is "workshopping" books-in-progress online, and that by driving substantial site traffic and gleaning comments, authors can demonstrate to potential agents/publishers that there is actually a market for what they are writing. So, when in Rome...

Ergo, I have set up a blog at http://massmedea.wordpress.com. So, please, go visit, leave a comment, pass the link along, etc. The more the merrier!

I will be posting a new chapter every Friday. Chapters 1 and 2 (a special "two-hour world premiere") are up already.

Elsewhere in cyberspace, if you love (or hate) bad movies, I have started--just for fun (and as a compelling way to teach myself Adobe Dreamweaver)--a comic movie-recapping site called Movie Mis-Treatments. A new recap is posted every...well, whenever I get around to it (usually every two weeks or so).

As if that weren't enough, if you tweet, I have started a Twitter feed as well, wherein I tweet about items related to marketing, media trends, e-books, conferences I attend, and, at the moment, college basketball. I can be followed at http://twitter.com/rromano. Let's not even get into Facebook. Jeesh, I spend so much time writing about what I am doing, I don't have time to actually do anything anymore!

Next week I will be in New York at the Think Mobile Conference and Expo. Look for post-conference comment here and more or less live-tweeting at my Twitter feed, and elsewhere in my vast, growing media empire.

Posted by Richard Romano on March 13, 2009 | Comments (1)