According to a Reuters article, communities of authors are beginning to hang out on MySpace – well that’ll be just great for helping them to focus on their second draft of a novel! (To think, ten years ago all they would have had to contend with would be minesweeper and solitaire – now there’s a bunch of kindred spirits to wait for IM and email messages to come back from.)
But what also caught my eye in the article was a claim by one of the authors that "’MySpace is changing every day … I do see far more people
my age and even older’ said 36-year-old Josh Kilmer-Purcell,
one of four published authors who set up a collective page
earlier this year at www.myspace.com/thememoiristscollective".
Really? Anyone else seen evidence of thirtysomethings without ulterior motives hanging out in Myspace-land?
Anyhow, get ready for the literati’s version of the Arctic Monkeys (or Sandi Thom) to burst onto the scene at any moment – if only to garner the benefit of being able to say "MySpace", "blog" and "overnight success" in the blurb and press release that goes with the book in the hope of giving a jaded hack a fresh angle for their profile in the books section.
On the Sandi Thom theme, there has to be a semi-suicidal literary agent out there who has considered holding online readings of his unsigned author’s work in a basement in Tooting. There has to be…
No? How about now…
Maybe that’s a me shaped… ah, forget it.
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