On The Menu: Using Social Media To Filter Fiction

It was a social media Thursday on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, as hosts Jason Boog of GalleyCat and AgencySpy‘s Matt Van Hoven welcomed Jürgen Fauth, co-founder of a social networking site for writers, Fictionaut.

The goal of Fictionaut is to get established and emerging writers to publish stories and interact with each other. “Publishing isn’t really the problem any more,” Fauth said about the world of writing and online publishing today. “So we figured, what if we had a site where anybody could come on a publish their stories? What would happen? The problem then becomes filtering.