NP MoviBook

[Doug Millison]

Maybe He Should Have Stuck With the Self-Mutilation Stunt

Our unusual e-mail pitch of the day:

"Canadian author, Kenneth J. Harvey, who gained international
attention two  years ago for stitching fragments of his skin onto
promotional booklets of  his novel Skin Hound and who was reported as
being the first author to  serialize a novel via E-mail, has unveiled
a new book form -- MoviBook.

"MoviBook, with its slogan 'A Movie in Words', represents a cross
between a movie and a novel. It is essentially visual, much like a
screenplay, only written in novel form... According to the MoviBook
website, a MoviBook must have  no explanation of the tactile, or inner
emotions, unless expressed in  dialogue or through descriptive action.

"A MoviBook translates into a screenplay, scene by scene, with only
basic
format changes.

"What you read is what you see or hear, as in a theatre."


from:
PW NewsLine for July 25, 2002
http://www.publishersweekly.com