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.