One Child - Reader Experience

Welcome to the One Child Immersive Experience™.

Creating an experience is an incredible undertaking for all involved, but breaking new ground is like that. With One Child we're setting new standards for digital publishers, and building new user experiences.

What sets this thriller aside from other novels is our publishing model. One Child is a 30 day story that we are releasing in real time, as the events unfold in the story. It all starts on July 27th.

Along with the daily release, we have created an online social media stage where readers can interact and experience the book's characters in greater depth. Social media profiles (Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube etc.) have been created for our characters as well as websites for the corporations in the book. If you send a character a message (by e-mail, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter) they will respond directly to your message. Kristin Reilly (Professional Gamer and Online Community Manager) is the person behind the characters and working the social media profiles for each character.

To tie this together, we have created a place on Facebook where readers can discuss their findings and chat about where they see the story going. To move things along, we have created an online AM news radio station, based in New York, that provides a daily synopsis of the story as it unfolds as well as distributes news, traffic and weather for the New York area. Al Murdoch (Voice of EA Sports NBA) is the sound of the station, with Murray Vair (CKRY Radio Jock) providing the daily updates.

Topping off the reader's experience are 4 segments of the book that have been dramatized by professional actors and filmed on a set resembling Afghanistan. You can view these video segments as you read the story on your computer or iPad.

Here is how the social media landscape unfolds: The Immersive Experience [PDF]

To push the experience even further, the video teaser components of the One Child project feature original music by Rick Plester (Scorpions, Michael Schenker Group, Black Symphony).

And that’s some of the things we’ve done to make One Child an experience, not just a book.

View the official press release for the One Child Immersive Experience