Deadbooks the ripper

[DeadBooks]

“When SciFi writers drop acid online.”
--- Meredith Woerner, io9

“Deadbooks hints at a densely packed mythology that draws on The X-Files and Stephen King, with a little David Lynch-style creepiness thrown in for good measure.”
--- Hugh Hart, Wired/Underwire

Hey out there,
I’m not a regular, so I appreciate you letting me speak.
On Monday, August 18, I launch Deadbooks. It’s been a long time in the making and it will upset some people’s notions of what a book should be. Some will like it, some won’t. That’s life. But before any grumbling starts I wanted to tell the community why I did it.
The main thing I wanted to upend was what a book could be; to rip the words out of its wooden coffin. Set it free. And in my opinion, the genres that could handle that task best were SciFi and Horror: genres rarely intimidated by boundary bashing.
Many bitch that we don’t read anymore, but I don’t think that’s true. I think many are just waiting for the novel to catch up with their expectations of entertainment.
There will always be a place for word on paper, but what DeadBooks represents is where the novel may be headed: what its true potential can be once it’s ripped free from the wood.
Thanks for your time.

Hoss

[Tam Li Hua]

What exactly do you mean by "Ripped Free"? O.o I picture words floating above the paper or something..

Are you talking about E-book publishing? Or a different kind of enigmatic writing style?

Also, I'd be interested in checking this out. Is there a site or anything? How can I obtain a copy?

[DeadBooks]

Thanks for the question. Deadbooks is live now. there are 7 chapters to give you an idea of what I'm thinking. What i'm putting out to everyone is that maybe it's time we let the novel and the net team up a bit more.
This is what the net does, in my humble opinion. We take a story - my dog's dead and i think my husband ate it. Now there are many ways to tell that story, and we've all been brought up by them and by the meduims that limit them. We could tell the story in a poem, a movie, a song, a novel - same story, different package. But poems get to you one way, novels another, songs another, movies still yet another...

[DeadBooks]

Thanks for the question. Deadbooks is live now, please google it. There are 7 chapters to give you an idea of what I'm thinking, much more if you want to join us.
What i'm putting out to everyone is that maybe it's time we let the novel and the net team up a bit more.
This is what the net does, in my humble opinion: we take a story - my dog's dead and i think my husband ate it. Now, there are many ways to tell that story; we've all been brought up by them, and by the meduims that limit them.
We could tell the story in a poem, a movie, a song, a novel - same story, different package. But poems get distributed to you one way, novels another, songs another, movies still yet another...
But the net doesn't care how you want to tell the story, and sure as hell doesn't care about distribution methods. You could have chapter 1 be a song, chpt2 be a movie, chpt3, be a novel - an extreme example but you get my point.
The Net is all about you deciding how your story should be told even if it uses every story-telling method ever created.
What i've created may or may not be good - that's for you to decide - but the ideas The Deadbooks Project trigger may be somethig worth paying attention too.
Season1 runs for the next 31 weeks.
Thanks for being curious.

Hoss