After a number of books being written in email format, it
was only a matter of time before Twitter made its way into fiction, and now here
it is. In Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medeiros, due for publication in December,
writer Abigail is given a Twitter account, only to become slightly
infatuated...
Abigail Donovan has a lot of stuff she should be doing.
Namely writing her next novel. A bestselling author who is still recovering
from a near Pulitzer Prize win and the heady success that follows Oprah's stamp
of approval, she is stuck at Chapter Five and losing confidence daily. But when
her publicist signs her up for a Twitter account, she's intrigued. What's all
the fuss?
Taken under the wing of one of her Twitter followers, 'MarkBaynard" - a
quick witted, quick-typing professor on sabbatical - Abby finds it easy to put
words out into the world 140 characters at a time. And once she gets a handle
on tweets, retweets, direct messages, hashtags, and trends, she starts to feel
unblocked in writing and in life. After all, why should she be spending hours in
her apartment staring at her TweetDeck and fretting about her stalled career
when Mark is out there traveling the world and
living?
Or is he?
Told almost entirely in tweets and DMs,
Goodnight Tweetheart is a truly
modern take on a classic tale of love and loss - a Griffin and Sabine
for the Twitter generation.
