false290340712 Author of “METAPHORS OF LIFE JOURNAL aka Things That Make Me Go Hmmm”. Follow my journal postings at this site or at its permanent home www.mdyetmetaphor.com/blog2 where you can subscribe to the RSS feed. Metaphors of life Journal categories: Shifting Winds, Sudden Light, Deep Dive, Songs of Nature.
Author of “UNTIL THE DEEP WATER STILLS: AN INTERNET-ENHANCED NOVEL” – traditional print novel with a unique and groundbreaking online companion featuring text, imagery and audio recordings. Available from Amazon.
Take "The Metaphor Tour" for an introduction to Michael and his internet-enhanced novel including: Michael's website, the novel's online companion, Michael's "Metaphors of Life" blog and a book trailer on YouTube http://mdyetmetaphor.com/blog/the-metaph...
A glimpse of what readers and reviewers have to say about the novel:
“The most engaging thing about this book is how real it seems…”
“This is a great book! Michael is an amazingly sensitive and intuitive writer…”
"This book is fantastic…
“Michael Dyet offers a glimpse into the evolution of the novel…”
“The writing is excellent…”
“Mr. Dyet's writing style is compelling - very eloquent use of language…”
“I think Dyet has hit on the future of the book…”
"UNTIL THE DEEP WATER STILLS - An Internet-enhanced Novel" is listed in Goodreads. View the novel listing for a synposis as well as the full text of the above review excerpts.
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<![CDATA[Until the Deep Water Stills: An Internet-enhanced Novel]]>
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4.333 For Katherine Orr the words ‘I love you” are not enough. Only a demonstrative expression of her husband Jayce’s love can rescue their relationship.
But Jayce’s personal demons prevent him from giving her this even though she is all that keeps him from a descent into chaos.
Simultaneously, Bryan struggles to repair the breach of love in his life caused by his daughter’s death. But his wife, Jayce’s sister, grows ever more distant.
Social activist Faith, who longs for love but fears losing herself in it, becomes the catalyst for change in all four lives.
The paths of these four converge toward a tragic event. Each discovers in their own way that love is the living core of human existence and that how we love defines who we are.
WHAT IS AN INTERNET-ENHANCED NOVEL?
The Online Companion adds another dimension to the novel by permitting the main characters to speak directly to you. You’ll find secondary plot lines here that do not exist in the printed novel. Each chapter in the book has a related online entry.
Katherine keeps a Photo Journal recording her innermost thoughts along with corresponding photographs. She puzzles through her deteriorating relationship with Jayce as well as a risky, secret relationship.
Jayce’s Diary is an ongoing monologue in Jayce’s mind in which he rationalizes his increasingly destructive behaviour while a recurring dream torments him. Jayce's Diary entries are posted in text format and as AUDIO RECORDINGS.
In Bryan’s Blog, Bryan hides behind a pseudonym to dissect his struggling marriage while battling a temptation he is afraid to indulge.
Faith questions her life choices and her professional decisions in un-mailed letters to the “Runaway Mother” who left her father when Faith was only a year old. Faiths Letters to Her Mother are posted in text format and as AUDIO RECORDINGS.
"The most engaging thing about this book is how real it seems, especially as you read each of the characters journal entries (on the internet). It is as if you are sneaking a glimpse into the most private parts of a person's life, showing how fragile and tenuous life really is.
The well developed characters and the effectively told story, not to mention the striking book cover, create a book that I would highly recommend to others. Michael Robert Dyet has set a new bar for authors. His unique approach to the written word infused with internet enhancement may well be the literary wave of the future."
“What a great idea, to combine the best of two worlds - literature and the Internet - and create a novel that is “Internet enhanced” - that is interactive. That’s just what author Michael Robert Dyet did with his debut novel, Until the Deep Water Stills, in which readers can go to a web address at the end of each chapter to read further information on that chapter and its characters, and to view cool photographs…
Until the Deep Water Stills is a novel that will invoke deep emotions from its readers, and make them think about the nature of love and how its peaks and valleys often transform interpersonal relationships over the years. Its use of the Internet really adds a lot of interest to the novel, and makes reading the book an interactive experience.”
Reviewed by Douglas Cobb, bestsellersworld.com
"Michael Dyet offers a glimpse into the evolution of the novel, harnessing the new technologies to reveal layers of story in a way that can only be done in the electronic age. Dyet deftly uses the Internet to create underlying strata, allowing the reader to slip away, if she wishes, from the third-person narrative of the novel to access the first-person intimacy of the blogs, diaries, letters, audio, and photo journals of the characters. When the reader returns to the main narrative, it is with deeper understanding, and sometimes astonishing new facts.
Marianne Paul, Author of
Tending Memory, Twice in a Blue Moon and Dead Girl Diaries
"This book is fantastic. I read all the time and I have to say it has been a rare thing to come across such a thoughtful, emotionally relevant and ultimately inspiring novel. It is clear that the author "gets it" when it comes to what really goes on between people, be they lovers, families or friends. I highly recommend it."
Katy MacKinnon
"This is a great book! Michael is an amazingly sensitive and intuitive writer, and obviously understands more about the vagaries and intricacies of love than most people learn in a lifetime. I really found myself getting caught up in the characters. And the internet links really add a lot."
Joan Burton
"It's an urbane story of relationships and choices people make. The theme of facing up to the consequences of our choices is poignantly unfolded, with the tragic loss of love and life, a cautionary tale of our contemporary times.
"The writing is excellent, whose luminous quality oft outshines the waxing moon on the deep still water."
Ben Antao
Past President, Canadian Authors Association, Toronto Branch
Author of: Blood & Nemesis, Penance, Living on the Market
and The Priest and His Karma
"It is an unusual book in that each chapter is told from the viewpoint of one of each of its 4 main characters. I haven't gone online to delve deeper, and I suspect that the loss is mine because Mr. Dyet's writing style is compelling - very eloquent use of language and you can easily get swept along on the lyrical nature of the writing.
The characters are believable and given the depth to which the author relates each character, it is to his credit that their portrayal remains true to each - each being so different too... I would say it is a book for the 'Oprah Generation'."
Lynn Fallon, United Kingdom
"The interesting added dimension to this book is the Internet component that reveals more of the characters and their secrets. The affair that Katherine conducts happens mostly in this dimension and I would have missed it had I not read her online journal. I think Dyet has hit on the future of the book -with the technology available and emerging - it could become a multi media experience."
Shane Joseph, Author of Redemption in Paradise and Fringe Dwellers]]>
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