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In November 2009 - TEN YEARS AGO! - I took part in Nanowrimo – (National Novel Writing Month). And wrote this novel.

It’s called ‘Rock And Roll Is Dead’, and it’s about a band who go on a journey. (it’s worth noting that, while it doesn’t contain any sex or violence, it does contain lots of swears – if that’s likely to offend, best get someone to edit it for you first). It's been available as a downloadable PDF for a while, and lots of people have read and enjoyed it, so let's do it properly, eh?

All the Twitter and blog content in the book was ‘real’ - it was posted to the web as I went along, and the Twitter responses are real responses from real Twitter users – none of that interaction is ‘faked’ (other than the characters being fictional… if you see what I mean.)

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