COLORADO SPRINGS—Marcher Lord Press, award-winning publisher of Christian speculative fiction, is embarking on a new kind of publishing venture.
Publisher and founder Jeff Gerke announced that he has signed writer Adam Palmer of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to compose his science fiction novel Space Available on Twitter, beginning January 1, 2011, and continuing throughout the year.
“Adam will be writing a novel entirely through Twitter tweets,” Gerke said. “Readers will be able to follow the novel on Twitter or in compiled form on the MLP website. And upon completion, MLP will release the novel in book form.”
Palmer’s Twitter feed is https://twitter.com/AdamAuthor#, and he has already set up rules for this unique work-in-progress. For one thing, he will write using only Twitter.
“Writing it beforehand in Microsoft Word or any other program and then copying and pasting it into Twitter is cheating and counter to the whole experiment,” Palmer said. “I’m not using Twitter to transmit my novel; I’m using it to create it.”
Palmer also said he will keep the book in the first person, and that “I’m going to attempt to incorporate the methodology of Twitter into the story.” He will continue to post blog entries about the project at adampalmerauthor.blogspot.com, but his Twitter feed will be reserved exclusively for the book.
Gerke had had the idea for Space Available for awhile. “Every time I saw a ‘Space Available’ or ‘Space for Sale’ sign as I drove through town, I’d think how cool it would be to have a series of comedy science fiction novels about someone who comes up with a scam to sell parcels of outer space.”
He’d thought about writing it himself, and had even pitched the novel to Palmer at one point. But it wasn’t until Palmer came up with the idea of doing it on Twitter that the project took off.
Christian novelist and humorist Brad Whittington admits to a fascination with Palmer’s concept. But he’s not sure it will work. “In my humble (but completely accurate and independently verified) opinion, Adam is stark-raving mad,” Whittington said.
According to Gerke, plans are in the works for a series, potentially including Space for Sale, Space for Rent, Dental Space Available, and more.
Visit www.marcherlordpress.com/SpaceAvailable.html for more information, and find out about Palmer’s project at adampalmerauthor.blogspot.com.
Marcher Lord Press, founded in Colorado Springs by Gerke in 2008, is the premier publisher of Christian speculative fiction. Its novels have garnered numerous awards in 2010—Jill Williamson’s By Darkness Hid won the prestigious Christy Award (Speculative Fiction) and Kirk Outerbridge’s Eternity Falls received the Carol Award from the American Christian Fiction Writers.
Visit www.marcherlordpress.com
Publisher and founder Jeff Gerke announced that he has signed writer Adam Palmer of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to compose his science fiction novel Space Available on Twitter, beginning January 1, 2011, and continuing throughout the year.
“Adam will be writing a novel entirely through Twitter tweets,” Gerke said. “Readers will be able to follow the novel on Twitter or in compiled form on the MLP website. And upon completion, MLP will release the novel in book form.”
Palmer’s Twitter feed is https://twitter.com/AdamAuthor#, and he has already set up rules for this unique work-in-progress. For one thing, he will write using only Twitter.
“Writing it beforehand in Microsoft Word or any other program and then copying and pasting it into Twitter is cheating and counter to the whole experiment,” Palmer said. “I’m not using Twitter to transmit my novel; I’m using it to create it.”
Palmer also said he will keep the book in the first person, and that “I’m going to attempt to incorporate the methodology of Twitter into the story.” He will continue to post blog entries about the project at adampalmerauthor.blogspot.com, but his Twitter feed will be reserved exclusively for the book.
Gerke had had the idea for Space Available for awhile. “Every time I saw a ‘Space Available’ or ‘Space for Sale’ sign as I drove through town, I’d think how cool it would be to have a series of comedy science fiction novels about someone who comes up with a scam to sell parcels of outer space.”
He’d thought about writing it himself, and had even pitched the novel to Palmer at one point. But it wasn’t until Palmer came up with the idea of doing it on Twitter that the project took off.
Christian novelist and humorist Brad Whittington admits to a fascination with Palmer’s concept. But he’s not sure it will work. “In my humble (but completely accurate and independently verified) opinion, Adam is stark-raving mad,” Whittington said.
According to Gerke, plans are in the works for a series, potentially including Space for Sale, Space for Rent, Dental Space Available, and more.
Visit www.marcherlordpress.com/SpaceAvailable.html for more information, and find out about Palmer’s project at adampalmerauthor.blogspot.com.
Marcher Lord Press, founded in Colorado Springs by Gerke in 2008, is the premier publisher of Christian speculative fiction. Its novels have garnered numerous awards in 2010—Jill Williamson’s By Darkness Hid won the prestigious Christy Award (Speculative Fiction) and Kirk Outerbridge’s Eternity Falls received the Carol Award from the American Christian Fiction Writers.
Visit www.marcherlordpress.com
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3 comments:
Wow... that's... unique! But very creative! I can't wait to see how it all turns out... :D
Thank you for posting this!
This is fascinating! I must investigate...
That's a very interesting idea. Personally, though, I think I'd get lost trying to find it on Twitter. There's so much other stuff going on there, and if you missed a day and had to catch up on tweets... or remember what happened in the course of the novel as it's being written... I guess that's why they're putting the book out afterward - in case you miss things on Twitter! It's definitely an interesting experiment.
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