Tweeting from the London Book Fair: Day One

What is it about book fairs and fate? When I went to the Bologna Book Fair, an airline strike threatened publisher flights. Now it's the London Book Fair ... and Iceland has erupted!

I am tweeting from the London Book Fair from Monday 19 April until Wednesday 21 April.

I'm not totally sold on Twitter and this is an experiment on its usefulness - last year, there was so much happening that I found myself wishing I had set up a facility by which I could tweet as things moved along.

This year, I am making a big effort. (It's an experiment - I hope it works)

So ... watch the twitter feed on the right which I've set up purposely for the London Book Fair!

Alice in Wonderland iPad app: the future?

Saw it on Nathan Bransford's blog

It's so cool ... but does anyone remember the excitement of the first CD Rom with all its hyperlinks and clicks and noise?

This is way cooler - but will it work with an audience as hip and desensitized to techno-dazzle? And what about READING?

Questions, questions, questions.

Someone commenting on the video said, "The Bible needs a version of this!" Now that I wanna see!

Can't wait to see the new digi-technologies for publishing at the London Book Fair - I'll be tweeting live to the blog btw - connected my mobile to Twitter, but only for this purpose.

Formulaic Trailer 101

I am currently working on my book trailer with (it just so happens) my brother who is a motion graphics person and a director (useful).

The trailer is going to be less than two minutes (possibley less than one) and already I've learned huge amount about reveals and sound and visual impact ... which I will share with you when we're done.

Meanwhile, I saw this hilarious take on the indisputably formulaic nature of trailers on Sarah McIntyre's twitter feed!