Guardian Teen Books has partnered with Random House for a new interactive, serialised story called Root - a fast-paced thriller set in the shadowy world of computer hacking and espionage. Every weekday for six weeks a new chapter will be released on guardian.co.uk/teen-books. The content will be directly influenced by readers’ contributions, such as their ideas for characters' personalities and skills.
The heroine Molly Root is a 15 year old computer genius whose friend Danny is killed after being caught stealing priceless data from a ruthless global corporation. Now she's in over her head. So far Molly Root's mission to get to the bottom of her best friend's murder has taken her on a perilous trail across London. Her key lead is a dodgy police detective - and her attempts to expose his shady contacts are testing her ingenuity to the limits.
As well as incorporating suggestions from readers, the story will also be brought to life via several social media platforms. For example, Guardian Teen Books' Twitter and Facebook accounts will be providing behind the scenes updates of how Molly is progressing, along with clips on Audioboo featuring the voicemails that Molly has discovered. This will be accompanied by onsite quizzes and photo puzzles on Flickr.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. If you would like any further information about this, or any other Guardian Teen Books projects please contact childrens.books@guardian.co.uk
I thought the idea of this was pretty cool and I got an email with this in it from a rep from Guardian Books. I thought it was pretty neat and published it. So also a quick news flash... all you have to do is push that little follow button out to the side for GFC... Also PLEASE , PLEASE, sign up for the giveaway of Damian's Oracle.. Only one person has signed up so far and it would be great if you would..
How nifty! By the way, notice you've now got 20 followers congrats!!
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