The Naked Writer Project
In September 2012, Hartmann began a project to write a fiction title using Google Docs so that readers could see the writing & editing process in real-time through their web browser. The author also used crowdsourcing to allow readers to suggest a name for the new novel, and to also decide on the level of sex that it should contain.
The project was completed on the 11th November 2012 and the book "The Dragon Lords" was launched in December 2012 at Google's Central St Giles London head-office. In total, Hartmann wrote over 76,000 words at a rate of 16 words per minute with over 13,000 readers taking part.
The New Yorker described the novel as "the best technilogical-literary stunt in recent memory" and The Chicago Tribune suggested that "agile publishing and crowd sourcing could be waves of the future". Hartmann was also compared to American writer Harlan Ellison who used to write before a public audience by sitting in shop-windows.
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