It’s been a roller coaster few days. After receiving a negative review about our QUILLR®, UnnaturalStates, I was pretty down but kept repeating something my sister often quotes from Maeterlinck,
At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each PROGRESSIVE SPIRIT is OPPOSED by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
Then, something terrific: we received a fab review on MyShelf.com. Here’s an excerpt:
Nicola Furlong has stepped full-bodied into the twenty-first century with the release of Unnatural States, a multimedia internet venture based on her novel Thy Will Be Done. This is a very bold concept for an author.
Internet renderings have been around for awhile that combine stills and live action. But these are, for the most part, independent film shorts—I used to review them and other independent films for an indie film site. But Nicola Furlong's concept is quite unique. Not only are there stills and live action, but she has blocks of text like an eBook AND she also has a lot of music, written specifically for her novel...
...In Unnatural States, Nicola Furlong presents the story in short blocks of text that are often broken up with photographs of key characters. On some pages, a video widget appears, and you can click and watch a short scene between the actors. Music often plays on each page as you read, and sometimes songs are highlighted in special video segments. There are two full-length song segments, from John's upcoming concert...
... Quillr™, which is what Furlong is calling this blend of media, is touted for letting readers experience novels instead of just reading them or watching them as movies. I did enjoy the whole experience...
To read the full review, please visit: MyShelf Review of UnnaturalStates.
And to heck with those thousand men!
