Omar Shabka's Blog
June 12, 2014
June 11, 2014
DIY Metafiction in Action
Digital has broken down the barriers between writer and reader. In real terms, this is manifest in the growth of self-publishing, a direct-to-consumer business model that promises/threatens to transform the publishing industry.
In fictional terms, it opens avenues for storytelling that transcend the boundaries between fiction and reality. The digital world exists as a virtual place where writers, readers, narrators, and characters can cohabitate on equal terms, a place of useful imaginings where a reader can wander into the narrative stream and a character can step out of the pages of a novel.
That’s the founding principle for DIY Metafiction. I am putting it into practice starting tomorrow with the serialization of my novel, Exit Strategy. Come along, follow the story as it unfolds, add your own forking paths, and let’s see where it takes us. Archetypes, surveillance, corporate espionage, the high-tech dotcom world, a dark past or two, there are plenty of themes to run with. Daily chapters released on Twitter @GETExitStrategy.
The garden gates open Friday the 13th.
Filed under: Exit Strategy Tagged: corporate espionage, DIY metafiction, dotcom, London, novel, patent trolls, surveillance state, thriller, venture capital
June 10, 2014
Win an autographed copy of Exit Strategy
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Exit Strategy
by Omar Shabka
Giveaway ends June 13, 2014.
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June 7, 2014
Exit Strategy, my new novel, now available on Amazon
Berkeley House is an exclusive private club in Mayfair that has been at the heart of London’s dotcom scene since day dot (the mid-90s). Its members are the city’s elite venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, blue chip execs, and new media types. Its owner, Daniel Logan, has wired the club for surveillance. From his penthouse, he watches and listens to everything, uses it for his own ends. Insider trading, scandal, extortion, blackmail, bribery—nothing is off limits in his quest for wealth and power.
I have an interesting social engagement planned for the serialization. I’m calling it DIY metafiction. In a nutshell, it’s an experiment in using social media to create Borges’ Garden of Forking Paths collaboratively and online. Email me, if you’re intrigued and would like to be part of the conspiracy. You can also just follow @GETExitStrategy on Twitter and jump in when you’re ready.
Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: corporate espionage, dotcom, London, novel, patent trolls, Surveillance, thriller, venture capital, vulture capital
