Best,
Evan

Camera Assistant and Editor of The Black and Blue
http://www.theblackandblue.com/

Great article, thank you.

As a traditional storyteller, or writer, I’ve often railed against the idea that ‘A good book should make you cry.’ I’d like to revise that with ‘A good book should make you CARE’. The audience/reader/listener needs to care about the characters and what happens to them. Crying is optional. This stance comes from having written a comedy series completely dismissed by the literati, but which was a HarperCollins best seller. No crying in sight.

I’d also like to share with you a project I have been working on which I call ‘Transmedia for the Little Guy’. No big budget, high tech bells and whistles. A simple writer using transmedia to tell a young adult story called Kiss Kill. Kiss Kill is a story driven text, told with multiple text-types and using multiple platforms. It is being published by a new digital publisher, Really Blue Books, on an extremely limited budget. For a traditional writer it is pioneering. I’m so excited by the new direction of telling stories, and so grateful to the transmedia community for their vision, passion and invincability. Thank you, again.