The Dragon Lords: It's Time To Change The World!

The Dragon Lords may well be the first novel written online, completely live. In a project she called "The Naked Writer", author Silvia Hartmann composed the saga via daily Google Docs bursts, while thousands of onlookers could freely observe her every keystroke.

The result is an engrossing saga, in the form of dozens of brief vignettes pieced together into a narrative whole. Featuring characters pushed to their limit in a formerly sealed-off world about to be transformed forever by the touch of a powerful Dragon Lord, The Dragon Lords is at once a brilliant literary experiment and a rapturously woven fantasy. Highly recommended.

Paul T. Vogel - Reviewer

Midwest Book Review

In the Summer of 2012, Silvia Hartmann accepted the challenge to write a "kick ass" fantasy-fiction novel live online on Google Drive as "The Naked Writer," trusting in her personal daemon to deliver not just the story, but the order and sequence of the words. Thousands of readers from around the world watched each letter appear on the screen in real time.

The Dragon Lords was started on September 12th 2012 and, on November 11th 2012, the last chapter was written live in front of an audience of 150 delegates at the GoE Conference, Gatwick, England.

For information about the project see:

• Silvia Hartmann is the Naked Writer
• The Naked Writer in the Media

Naked Writer Interviewed on BBC World Service - The Strand

Silvia Hartmann, The Naked Writer, was interviewed on The Strand programme on BBC World Service. Originally broadcast on 16th January 2013.