• Titre : The Kills
• Auteur: Richard House
• Éditeur: Pan Macmillan’s Picador
• Année de création: 2013
• Référence : HOUSE, Richard, The Kills, [en ligne]. https://www.panmacmillan.com/thekills, (Site consulté le 2 novembre 2017).
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• Langue : Anglais

• Description existante : « The Kills consists of four interconnected books that are set across the globe, from Iraq to Naples and Reims to New York. After Sutler come The Massive, The Kill and The Hit. The overarching story begins with a man on the run and ends with a burned body. Book III, The Kill, is a standalone novel that is read by the characters in the other three books.

As well as being ebook first titles, these are also multimedia ebooks. Richard House created his own videos and audio content, all of which take you beyond the boundaries of the book and into the characters’ lives outside its pages. Working with a project team at Picador, all this content is placed within the ebooks.

There are two editions of each ebook – an enhanced and a standard version. The enhanced version contains all the multimedia content within it.

The standard version contains links to the content on the project website, www.thekills.co.uk, which was built entirely in-house and on the Pan Macmillan web platform. »

Source: BOSCAWEN, Rosanna, 6 mars 2013. « The Kills: a digital-first project from Picador ». Article sur le site <http://thedigitalist.net/blog/2013/3/a-digital-first-project-from-picador>. Consulté le 22 novembre 2017.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kills_%28Richard_House_novel%29 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/23/the-kills-richard-house-review http://thedigitalist.net/blog/2013/3/a-digital-first-project-from-picador https://www.panmacmillan.com/thekills

“Richard House experiments with characterisation as a device to mediate different narrative sites in his 2013 work The Kills. The novel, which is comprised of four sections (House refers to them as ‘books’ [2014]), extends its linguistic rendering into digital spaces through the inclusion of filmic sequences attributed to being created by the characters. The film elements are ‘about the characters’ lives outside the scope of the novel, they are a different tone, you could even say genre’ (House 2014, para 14). The sequences explore the landscape of the stories, contributing to both a more visceral evocation on place, and as a result of their first person perspective, the further development of characterisation. That worldbuilding and characterisation are fundamentals of the creative writing craft, positions the cohesion that stems from House’s work as an element of his creative writing practice, rather than that of TS itself”

Citation de : “Between the network and the narrative: transmedia storytelling as a philosophical lens for creative writers”

mentionné dans: Holding transmedia: Narrative at the intersection of print and digital creative writing