A Book Promotion Running Until Year 2109

A hundred-year-long book promotion. Is it a joke? Definitely not. I’m serious about it. As serious as a tech-absurd writer can be. It’s possible, it takes half an hour and it makes you feel really great. Look at the screenshot below:

When did I do it? Before lunch. How did I do it? I’ve scheduled one hundred tweets (yes, one tweet a year) with a link to Password Incorrect, my mobilefiction book available for free from Feedbooks. There are a couple of Twitter apps you can use for that, like CoTweet or TweetLater. My choice was Hootsuite.

Now, the most important question: why did I do it? There are several reasons, you just need to skip this distracting thought at the back of your head, saying “all that doesn’t make sense at all”.

It’s technologically possible

There are no time limits when you schedule a tweet. Why should they be? I think technology, at least theoretically, allows for a lot of things people don’t use, because they think it doesn’t make sense. What I just did is not a theory, it’s a personal experience with the possibilities, technology is giving to people right here right now. And we’re not talking about NASA guys. We’re talking about each and every Internet user.

It’s an artistic statement

Scheduling tweets is nothing new and nothing special… when you plan them in advance let’s say fo a month. But hundred years  – that’s a different story. I’m a tech-absurd, not a sci-fi writer. I don’t want to imagine the future, I want to be involved. Half-an-our involvement which can determine the next 100 years of my presence in this world? I like that. Especially, that it’s purely dependable on where technology will evolve.

It’s asking questions

They are not questions about the future of a human kind, but human being:
– who will tweet from my post-Twitter account in 2058?
– will my tweet from 2094 be blocked by another DDoSaPSR/34 attack?
– which year will Penguin respond to my letter with a simple answer “no”?
– will I manage to make my wife read at least one of my stories, before I die?
– will I still write in 2019, and what, on what and why?
– will my daughters feel obliged to do something with their father’s Google doc called “tech_stories_19.05.2009”?
– what will happen on 28th of August 2109 before lunch?

It gives hope

Like 99% of writers I have 99% chances not to be recognized when I’m still alive. Opposite to van Gogh, who became famous thanks to his brother’s wife, I prefer DIY way. First, I don’t have a brother. Second, things come and go so fast these days, that if you don’t do something right now, you will never do it. Your current ratio the-need-to-act/the-tools-to-act will be replaced by a new one, before you even think of it.

Look at the screenshot again. That’s freaky, I’ve checked a box “Alert me by email, when tweet is sent”. One single click is bringing hope to one hundred years of your future. And that makes me feel really great today.