Joanne Harris has proposed new rules for authors and audiences,but creators including Colm Tóibín and AL Kennedy deem their only obligation is to wordsHow can an author navigate the competing imperatives of art, commerce and the public in the Facebook age?In a provocation delivered at the Manchester literature festival on Monday night, and the novelist Joanne Harris complained that the digital age has left some readers feeling a misplaced sense that writers were required to be permanently available to their audience. In this new world,Harris proposed a 12-point writer’s manifesto, a compact between author and reader in which – among other pledges she promised her readers “not to be aloof whenever you reach out to me – be that on social media or outside, and in the genuine world”.
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Source: theguardian.com