Sum – forty tales from the afterlives
by David Eagleman
Fourth Story Media
A fresh perspective in storytelling
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Welcome to Fourth Story Media
We are a new media company. We tell stories that unfold across books, the web, mobile phones and other forms of media. We invite kids to participate in the stories they read...
Traditionally, stories would be told through one medium. A film would exist as a film. A book would exist as a book. Now, the internet and new forms of technology are enabling storytellers to tell their stories not through one medium, but through every conceivable form of media.
— Michael Smith, CEO & Owner, Mind Candy and Perplex City
What We Are Reading
Blue is for Nightmares
by Laurie Faria Stolarz
The Lost Language of Plants
by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Invisible I
by Melissa Kantor & Stella Lennon
The Theory of Light and Matter
by Andrew Porter
Latest Conversations
March 11, 2010
Collaborative Storytelling at SXSW Interactive!
We’re big fans of SXSW Interactive here at Fourth Story Media, and this year we thought that in addition to attending the festivities, and sitting on a panel, we’d try out a little storytelling experiment…
Starting this Friday, March 12th at 10 AM central time, we’ll be hosting an interactive storytelling exquisite corpse-esque competition over at The Future of the Story. How it works:
- Follow us on Twitter to receive the kickoff sentence for each story (contributed by some of your favorite web storytellers)
- @ reply to @itwasadarkand with what you think happens next; your sentence will show up here
- Vote up the best sentence
- Every round, the winning sentence becomes part of the story and it’s time to write the next!
Once each story closes, we’ll be adding it to our story archive where it will be given a title and illustrated by Figure-1. AND (just to make things super extra saucy fun) we’ll be choosing one contributor from each story at random to win a choice of radtastic books (either Miranda July’s Learning to Love You More, or Jeffrey Zeldman’s A Book Apart), AND the original, signed illustration that accompanied their story!
Anyone and everyone is invited to play. We’ll be starting things off easy with two stories on Friday (new lines added approximately every 30 minutes, second story up around 4 PM), and we’ll ramp up from there depending on how feverishly you type. If you’re at SXSW, be sure to look for our buttons inside of your Big Bags, and watch for FSM’s Lisa Holton and Erin Kissane handing out our limited edition totes (both pictured here). Whoohoo! UPDATE: The first story “Bearly Noir” is complete! Read it now.
March 10, 2010
SXSW 2010: New Publishing & Web Content
Are you heading to the always invigorating SXSW Interactive this year? Are you obsessed with the future of publishing? Storytelling? Print media? Digital media? Writing? Reading? Words? Awesomeness? Be sure to check out New Publishing & Web Content on Saturday March 13th @ 5PM CT in Ballroom A. Hosted by Happy Cog’s Jeffrey Zeldman, the panel will “explore the creative, strategic, and marketing challenges of traditional and new (internet hybrid) book publishing and online magazine publishing, and how these fields intersect with content strategy and client services.”
Fantastic (if we do say so ourselves) panelists include:
- Lisa Holton – CEO + Founder, FSM
- Erin Kissane – Web Project + Community Manager, FSM / Blogger, Incisive.nu
- Mandy Brown – Creative Director, Etsy
- Paul Ford – Novelist / Blogger, FTrain.com / Editor, Harper’s
Hope to see you there!