- book design, E-books, ebooks, Immersive Fiction, interactive books, interactive fiction, myebooks, read an e-book week, writer's block, writing
Building Better E-books
Why don’t we have tons of dynamic, interactive, visually stunning e-books? The potential has been there for years. It has been there since project Gutenberg launched its e-text repository. It has grown with the first experiments in hypertext fiction and interactive adventure stories. The development of programming languages and scripts, advances in graphic design using HTML and CSS, all opened the doors to possibilities for building better books. Yet when I downloaded Calibre the other night and finally catalogued all of my 1,016 e-books, I was struck by how little evolution we’ve seen in the book. Most were plain text. A few had pictures. At one time websites were just text…
Bond Blogs
My Blogging Bondage Chef, Jacques Bond, is cooking up a Mind Candy special over at the Otherworld Diner Today. He offers some treats to tempt your creative mind.
Romancing the ARG
Move over Joan Wilder. Can you picture two romance novelists sneaking in to rummage through the patient files in a psychiatric hospital? Sound like a plot for a novel? It was real even if the hospital wasn’t. There was so much stuff in Zach’s files, Kelly and I decided to tackle it together. She divvied up the tasks. Kelly was supposed to handle anything in French. I was supposed handle everything else. We haven’t found anything in French yet. The contents were creepy. I’m not much of a phone person (I use maybe 8 minutes a month on my cell) but when Kelly offered to be in charge of looking…