New Transmedia Project Aims To Change Fiction

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A new transmedia project called 'The Numinous Place' is trying to raise money on Kickstarter. It already has one famous backer: the actor Russell Crowe, who has apparently invested $25,000 in the project.

It's far from the first story to involve multiple media to tell its story, but it is part of a boundary-pushing genre that has so far kept to the edges of the mainstream.

Any person with the requisite skills can make a website that appears to be that of a major company. A well-made YouTube video can appear to show real events that are actually anything but. We are in an age of fakery and fiction living alongside reality and truth.

Fertile ground, then, for storytellers of all kinds. As ereaders increase in popularity, the tools available to authors are increasing.

Not all writers will adopt them, just as not all writers include unusual typography, photographs or illustrations in their work. Yet as Sebald and Danielewski have showed, carefully exercising the option can lead to some remarkable reading experiences.

Have you ever read any transmedia? Would you? Let us know what you'd recommend.

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--Andrew Losowsky
HuffPost Books Editor