Comments on: Neil Gaiman’s Twitter Story

By: K.O.

K.O. — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:34:57 +0000

Thanks for the link mention. I iced “CHICAGO TO CORONADO” in October, after realizing monetization was too far off for a single girl on a bootstrapped budget. I wrote all the characters myself. CHICAGO TO CORONADO grew to 40K fans across a cast of 7 main characters and it had the social media landscape covered. The storyline was written in 140-character tweets sent at random by characters – with a home on Facebook, Vimeo and Bubbletweet, Flickr, a weekly e-newsletter and a website (www.C2CSoap.com). The characters led active online lives – maintaining Yelp, Facebook, Amazon, and LinkedIn profiles. CHICAGO TO CORONADO was featured in USAToday, San Diego Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, We Love Soaps, and more. It was my creative passion but I live on a small Island off the coast of San Diego and have zero literary or Hollywood connections.

I am looking for a job now, working nites at Nordstrom. I feel like J.K. Rowling before she was discovered. Life’s funny that way.

By: K.O.

K.O. — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:19:52 +0000

Thanks for the link mention. I iced “CHICAGO TO CORONADO” in October, after realizing monetization was too far off for a single girl on a bootstrapped budget. I wrote all the characters myself. CHICAGO TO CORONADO grew to 40K fans across a cast of 7 main characters and it had the social media landscape covered. The storyline was written in 140-character tweets sent at random by characters – with a home on Facebook, Vimeo and Bubbletweet, Flickr, a weekly e-newsletter and a website (www.C2CSoap.com). The characters led active online lives – maintaining Yelp, Facebook, Amazon, and LinkedIn profiles. CHICAGO TO CORONADO was featured in USAToday, San Diego Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, We Love Soaps, and more. It was my creative passion but I live on a small Island off the coast of Coronado and have zero literary or Hollywood connections.

I am looking for a job now, working nites at Nordstrom. I feel like J.K. Rowling before she was discovered. Life’s funny that way.

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By: Sheila Deeth

Sheila Deeth — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:35:44 +0000

I love his writing – interesting confusion over the name bookwitch. Maybe it’s ’cause I have sons.

Twitter’s fun, but I’m not sure I could cope with that level of story overload.

By: bookwitch

bookwitch — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:50:43 +0000

He was right to be upset! I’m a fan, now, but not obsessed. When I interviewed Neil a year ago, I knew very little about him, so was almost embarrassed, but bluffed my way through our chat. His books, the ones I’ve read so far, are very good. Don’t have time for twitter and stuff.

But I find when I mention him to people that most don’t know him. Some get really excited and think I mean Neil Diamond…