The 7-day contest, which runs through the 15th, is a promotion tied into the launch of Level 26: Dark Origins this week. The crime novel hit shelves on Tuesday and the eighteen corresponding 3-5 minute “cyberbridges” went live on the Level26.com site. From the mind of CSI creator Anthony Zuiker, the whole project is being called the world’s first Digi-Novel, essentially a combination of novel and web series woven together. This is the first of three novels in the Level 26 series as part of a million dollar deal from Dutton publishing, all of which are said to be following this same model.
I had a chance to dive into this earlier this summer after a sneak preview release of the book and series at Comic-Con, and this isn’t your parents’ CSI in book form. Sqweegel, the salacious killer on which the story centers, only becomes creepier when firing up the cyberbridge episodes and seeing human contortion you didn’t know was possible.
There’s also the community site itself, built by the lonelygirl15 creators at EQAL with their new Umbrella platform. Zuiker hasn’t been shy about posting candid blog entries and videos and so far the active community seems to be along for the ride. The site even has tracking of which members are at what chapter in the book based on who has unlocked the various cyberbridges. As EQAL’s Greg Goodfried put it at Comic-con, “Books are an amazing medium of connection, and with the web, the world is now your book club.”
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