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This is a simply amazing video by the Dorling Kindersley Books on the future of publishing – showing the true power of words. It’s all in our minds and how we perceive the world. Just read it – this way or another.

English, To watch

I’m not Dan Brown. Guess how I feel

Date: September 14, 2009

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I’m not Dan Brown.

Dan Brown is releasing tomorrow his new bestselling novel. I’m not.

Dan Brown is a genius writer. I’m not a genius and I just try to be a good writer.

Dan Brown makes huge money on his previous books. I make little money on my current Google Ads.

Dan Brown is writing books in English. I’m not. And I will never improve my English to the level where I can stop thinking about Google Translate.

And now comes the most important part: Dan Brown is perfectly meeting people’s expectations towards literature – he is giving them a long escape to the past. I think this is wrong. The literature of digital age shouldn’t be just an escape. We’re too much stuck in daily life to have enough time to escape. What’s more, the stress we receive every minute, from people and technology, cannot be just escaped. But it can be defused. That’s why I try to give my readers a short reset to the future, so they can live a bit easier and happier the next day.

I believe that today’s world is just too diverse for just one Dan Brown. I believe that there are readers, who don’t look for lost symbols, but forgotten passwords.

Now you know how I feel. I just feel good.

Absurdly various, English

A book promotion running until year 2109

Date: August 28, 2009

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A hundred-year-long book promotion. Is it a joke? Definitely not. I’m serious about it. As serious as a tech-absurd writer can be. It’s possible, it takes half an hour and it makes you feel really great. Look at the screenshot below:

hundred-year-book-promotion

When did I do it? Before lunch. How did I do it? I’ve scheduled one hundred tweets (yes, one tweet a year) with a link to Password Incorrect, my mobilefiction book available for free from Feedbooks. There are a couple of Twitter apps you can use for that, like CoTweet or TweetLater. My choice was Hootsuite.

Now, the most important question: why did I do it? There are several reasons, you just need to skip this distracting thought at the back of your head, saying “all that doesn’t make sense at all”. »»»

Book forward, English