Bid for success as a novelist

Here's an interesting concept I came across the other day. A first-time author is publishing a collaborative thriller with help from the auction site eBay. The novel, to be titled Novel Twists, is being written one page at a time, one writer to a page. As each instalment is finished, the chance to create the next one is offered for auction. So far, 23 pages have been completed, with 227 to go.

The man behind Novel Twists is 31-year-old Phil McArthur, who got the idea while recovering from cancer. He isn't trying to make money for himself from the page auctions - everything generated this way goes to the charity Macmillan Cancer Support.

To find out more, and maybe bid for a page yourself, visit www.noveltwists.com. By the way, to reach the current auction, you will need to follow the link from the last page to have been completed.