Angry Robot announces a new way of telling stories

Harper Collins imprint Angry Robot has announced what it calls a new way of telling stories.

Author Kaaron Warren's next work will be issued as both a full-length novel and also as a novella, seen from the point of view of one of the book's minor characters.

A spokesperson for the imprint told the BookShed, "At Angry Robot we have always attempted to push boundaries with our fiction, and now we’re doing the same with both the content and delivery methods."

Warren approached her publisher and suggested she re-write 'Walking the Tree' as a 20,000 word novella. She noted, "As I was writing strong adult and child characters, it struck me that it would be a wonderful thing if my son and I could be reading the same book but in appropriate versions, so I wrote Morace’s Story, the child’s point of view version. My idea is that every parent can share the reading of with their child. Sit there, together, reading the same book.”

The publisher saw its main challenge as how to fit an additional 20,000 words into an already hefty book.  The first two chapters of Morace’s Story are included at the back of 'Walking the Tree' along with a secret DVD-style download link and password that allows readers to read the entire novella online or on eBook readers. The eBook edition comes with the novella as an added extra.