Italian author Robert Bernocco can text better than a caffeinated tween. Instead of texting friends to avoid having to talk to them like the rest of us do, Bernocco used the T9 function on his cell phone to write his 384-page science fiction novel, Compagni di Viaggo (Fellow Travelers), available on Lulu.com.
“Only a few years ago I would have struggled to find both the time and the publisher to enable me to create this book,” Bernocco said in a release. He wrote the book during his train commutes to and from work and later downloaded his paragraphs to his home computer for revision. “Thanks to my Nokia and Lulu, I am now proud to be a published author.”
Texting a novel is cute and all, but will it spark a new trend? Will text-happy teenagers feel inspired to write their own angst-ridden novellas? Sources say no.
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Wow! What a sharp-witted author! Bernocco has made most of his time. I stick to the idea God helps those who help themselves. No objection?
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I’m a Canadian author who’s taking cell phone novels to a whole new level. I’m not only writing my next novel on the new iPhone 3G (using the Notes app), I have a character in the novel who uses an iPhone.
I’m an established author with 3 bestsellers available, a 4th with my agent in New York and a fifth nearly finished. Then I’ll be able to focus on ‘Finding Bliss’, the first novel written on an iPhone 3G using Notes.
My novel will be written in my own style, not in cell phone lingo. It won’t read the same way as the Japanese cell phone novels; it’ll be more current.
I expect that Finding Bliss will come out in book form and hopefully e-book as well. I’d also like to see it as a downloadable application on the iPhone and any other cell phone.
My story has been in the news in Canada a lot this past week–TV, radio, newspapers and online. I’m looking forward to doing something different and exciting.
Read more about Finding Bliss.
P.S. I am always open to interviews.
~Cheryl Kaye Tardif,
bestselling author of Whale Song, The River and Divine Intervention
http://www.cherylktardif.com