New publication: Seascape

Emma Parfitt — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:13:00 +0000

I am happy to announce the forthcoming publication of a book inspired by my storytelling research. The title Seascape comes from a play on the words ‘sea’ and ‘landscape’. Seascape is the title of one of the stories in the book. I had the idea for it walking the coast line of Cornwall. In particular along the areas connected to Gyllyngvase Beach, Falmouth. Those familiar with these areas will get a lot of the references to Cornish myths and landscape underlying the story.

An old monolithic stone arch at Gyllyndune Gardens (Parfitt, 2012)

Why write a book inspired by research? I had intended the writing to become part of my doctoral thesis. Yet before you think how boring (too late I suppose), the writing did not fit the academic work so I dropped that idea early on. Without using the writing as part of the research process which I did not wish to do at that point I created a book of stories instead. The stories I finally selected are interspersed with quotes from the young people in my research (with their names and details changed to protect their identity).

I invite you to follow me into a world of fairy tales where the lines between fiction and reality blur, and melt and burst into flames. A selkie leaves the sea for the first time to go to university; three young boys find a genie in a can of Irn Bru; two friends think they see a firebird in an old housing estate; a boy discovers that people are not always who they seem to be; a man is spirited away by a snake charmer into a dark maze; goblins crawl through mirrors; an unwilling princess is “saved” from a tower; and Rapunzel is kidnapped by an automaton. A series of eight original short stories to amuse and entertain.

Seascape is available to pre-order here (release date March 26th).

Book cover designed by Manuel Aguilera x

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Conductive Inks

Emma Parfitt — Sun, 11 May 2014 16:17:00 +0000

Okay so this is going off subject from my usual posts. But I just saw this awesome Ted presentation about conductive inks by Dr Kate Stone.

Dr Stone’s talk blew me away, I got chills. This is what I want to do with an idea I am currently working on! I just created a rough ‘graphic novel thing’ called Raven’s Heart. I would love to make it interactive. Imagine a black background with almost ‘psychadelic’ text and pictures in white and red. The idea surrounding Raven’s Heart was to make the reader interact more with the text to view the story.

Here is an example…

Now I’m no graphics expert. So if there is anyone out there who is, and therefore can improve on my idea, or if anyone is able to make my dream of creating an interactive book on conductive ink paper come to life please get in touch. I am very very excited about this technology and its creative potential for ‘digital’ novels.

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New publication: Seascape

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