Collaborative Storytelling Website Shared Epic Launches Today with EPIC ONE Sci-Fi Comedy

Shared Epic is a website designed to encourage collaborative storytelling, bringing together authors from around the globe (or even around your family room) to make public stories that can be added to and commented on by a wider reading audience.

SharedEpic.com launches today, August 14, with its first project and team of three authors: Andrea Corbin, Gabs Roman, and Nick Ruffilo. The website links directly to the story, in the form of Google doc, which is free to view and is open to comments and questions! Each Wednesday, the story will updated by a different author, and every time there is a good story break or cliffhanger, that part will be put into e-book form.

Part One is now available as an e-book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EHK4Y1A.

Epic One is an action-packed science fiction story with a splash of comedy. The story opens on Val Jones -- an average middle-aged man -- who is heading to work and has the sneaking suspicion that something isn't right. Events spiral out of control when an evil organization seizes Val and demands his greatest family heirloom. Turns out, he doesn't have it. But his nephew, Noah, does. And Noah is a thousand miles away. Can the tech-savvy 17-year-old keep the piece safe and escape the clutches of evil?

About the Authors:

Andrea Corbin was drawn to Shared Epic by curiosity and a desire to play with how stories are made and told. For over a decade, she has used National Novel Writing Month as an annual writing exercise. When Andrea received her M.A. in Publishing & Writing from Emerson College, she was also awarded a scholarship from BookBuilders of Boston, and now works on book production and design for Bentley Publishers in Cambridge, Mass. She can be found on Twitter @rosencrantz.

Gabs Roman graduated with degrees in English (emphasis in creative writing) and history with honors and summa cum laude from the University of Missouri in 2010. Her play, Sexiversary, was performed at the Mizzou New Play Series and the Mizzou Comedies in Concert in 2012. Gabs has also worked on projects with Dr. Peter Markie on the sixth edition of his Ethics textbook, as well as Dr. Anthony Funari and his book Francis Bacon and the 17th Century Intellectual Discourse, published in 2011. You can listen to the book podcast she runs with her brother at www.novelideaspodcast.com.

Nick Ruffilo is the CTO of Aerbook.com, a digital publishing platform. He was the publisher of the comic Amazing Super Zeroes (Comic #1: http://aerbook.com/maker/webview.html?book_id=2802; Archives: http://amazingsuperzeroes.blogspot.com/) and HTML5 Possibilities (http://aerbook.com/maker/webview.html?book_id=1990). He is the creator of ZenOfTechnology.com and creator of SharedEpic.com.