Could War of the Worlds Happen Today?
I’ve been thinking about how to build a platform for my novel.
While perusing Christina Katz’ responses to fiction writers on yesterday’s discussion at Writer’s Digest, I got a kind of cool idea. The main character in my book is looking for her missing sister. Wouldn’t it be fun if she had a “Have You Seen My Sister?” blog?
Then I started to wonder if people would take it seriously, as they did when Orson Welles broadcast War of the Worlds. And what would happen if they did? How long would I be able to blog about Lauren’s search for her sister before I would have to cop to the fact that it was a work of fiction? How would I eventually tie it back to the book? How much story could/should I give away to potential book readers?
Many questions to explore, but I still think it could be a cool way to build some buzz–and probably a lot of fun to do.
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