{"id":2664,"date":"2007-01-17T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:04","slug":"books-bounding-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2664","title":{"rendered":"Books Bounding Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

A huge thank-you to Book Moot<\/a> for aiming me toward a really fascinating new thing —
digital storytelling.<\/a> I KNEW<\/i><\/b> I was not being unreasonable when I had a huge argument with my agent about digital rights. Many publishing companies are not leaving them with the author, but instead of capitalizing on them, they’re sitting on them. Perhaps e-Books aren’t huge news for children’s and YA fiction (which is what I was told — “Nobody is doing anything with ePublishing in children’s books.”), but there’s definitely something there… potential, I believe it’s called. Anyway, do check out inanimate alice<\/a>, an online serial children’s\/YA story told with interactive media (Alice ages a bit each episode, and she’ll end at age 20). It’s a fast-paced, mysterious story, and the pictures and sounds support the text. It’s thoroughly absorbing, as good as having your own little movie, or, since it’s interactive, your own little game.<\/p>\n

Want to get a fix on what digital books can do for beginning or non-readers? See Jean Gralley’s Books Unbound<\/i><\/a>, which capitalizes on the possibilities for picture books, and read her thoughts<\/a> that were first published in Horn Book Magazine<\/a> this month last year. I’m a bibliophile and I love the texture and smells of paper, but I am eager to see where this new medium takes us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A huge thank-you to Book Moot for aiming me toward a really fascinating new thing —digital storytelling. I KNEW I was not being unreasonable…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,10],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-literary-life-observations","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}