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Atwood: Tweeting and touring to promote new book (REUTERS)

By Matt Cowan
On the verge of her 70th birthday, Booker prize-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood is forging into new territory to promote her latest novel “The Year of the Flood”.
She is blogging, tweeting, peddling ringtones through the website yearoftheflood.com and will run a Youtube competition.
Matt Cowan spoke to Atwood on a roofop just off London’s Piccadilly Circus.

Q: How did you get here?
A: I’m zero-footprinting the entire thing. Zero footprint is a carbon offset and carbon-reduction design company, so they will not only tell you how much you’re using but tell you how to use less and offset what you do us...
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