By John Glenday

David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, has revealed that his next work will eschew traditional publication routes and instead be drip fed onto the micro-blogging platform Twitter in 140 character instalments.

The Right Sort, a short story said to be unconnected to his next novel, will be packaged up onto chunks of 20 tweets to be published over the next seven days.

Despite embracing social media for the project Mitchell himself remains to be sold on the merits of the medium, saying: “I’m not really a social media animal.

“I like my privacy… I don’t want to make public the ante-rooms of my Read full story ›

Source: The Drum