It's me! In the newspapers!

[devi]

There's an article about my letter experiment in The Independent today. Oh my. I am apparently "writer Deirdre Ruane", or just "Ruane", which is very weird.

Go read it, and then go to postwodehouse.com, which is the website I've been asking for help with this week. And for pity's sake, if you participated (or even if you didn't) and you can think of something to say, post something on the message board! It's got tumbleweeds blowing through it.

Thank you again to everyone who joined in - I've still got letters to go out to some of you! - and everyone who helped me test the site. And to rhodri, who did a great job.

I'm in the paper. Holy cow.

Comments

[amuchmoreexotic.livejournal.com]

What a great idea!

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Well done, Ruane (as I shall now hereforth refer to you).

[http://users.livejournal.com/_alanna/]

How fantastic! :o)

Did you tell the papers about it in the end?

[tubewalker.livejournal.com]

So cool, it is just the best idea.

[triskellian]

That's so cool! And my comment about post sacks in the river is in there, too!

And now I'm once again sad for the letter I'll never be able to read :-(

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking it might be interesting to try this experiment in different cities all over the world, and see what, if any, effect that has on the success rate. Maintaining equivilance in the drop sites might be hard though.

[inskauldrak.livejournal.com]

excellent! : )

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Yay! Fame!
Never did receive the letter :(

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Red Ken will have you done for littering? ;-)
That was an excellent article, congratulations to the both of you!

[anam-uk.livejournal.com]

Damn I forgot to mention I recived one, I haven't got round to replying yet.
Now its time to find hte article on the web :>

[tokyo-mb.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the article!

Still no sign of that letter here in Tokyo... now makes me discount even the slight chance that it followed one of my other letters to Sweden and then by boat to Yokohama (taking 12 weeks in the process).

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Yay!
Congratulations on the coverage :)

[thecesspit.livejournal.com]

Nice work, fella(-rette).

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Yowsers! Well done Ruane! Glad the website is up and running happily by the way!

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Holy wow! Nice one!

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

Congrats! :D It was such a cool idea...

[ultraruby.livejournal.com]

That's so ace! I've been telling my real life friends about the letter experiment for ages, because it really is just such a cool idea. It's the kind of thing that should happen and should get in the papers.

[specialknives.livejournal.com]

That is really nifty. I also rather like your web design: simple, tasteful, attractive.

[kyte.livejournal.com]

Go you!!! :-)

[mooism.livejournal.com]

*grins*

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

Indeed - the centre of the London mailing universe jumps a couple of hills north from Mount Pleasant.

You never know - maybe years from now your writer's mansion will be besieged by the returning fruits of your labour, and auctions the world over will be alive with buzz of "a genuine Ruane original" coming onto the market.

As opposed to "a genuine Ruane", of which there is but one...

[ki.livejournal.com]

my goodness that was a long article! congrats! (:

[annasilverlight.livejournal.com]

Love the letter idea: I am going to try one. Letters are brill - they're far more personal than emails and I can write much faster than I can type. I still have a whole box of them spanning several years... and I had a penfriend for years and years who I never met. My sister once sent a letter addressed to "Jean and Anthony Barry, Ipswich, Suffolk" and miraculously it arrived at at the house of the addressee...

[trishna.livejournal.com]

Hey Deirdre, way cool! Great article and lovely promo of you. The new site is very swish as well.

Do you think that now your letters may start getting through more because as people read about the experiment, they will want to be 'involved' by posting stranded letters that they find?