The Penny Dreadful Experiment - Come Join In!

[Trystan]

Hello All,

I'm Trystan Vikar of The Penny Dreadful Experiment. TPDE is and experiment where I'm essentially giving away my dark lit novel DEVOTION chapter by chapter (like a Penny Dreadful!) after a series of "reader challenges".

Essentially, each new challenge sets a threshold or goal for our readers to hit in order to earn out the next chapter release. The reason for this whole project is to analyze and study the experience from the perspective of a brand spanking new debut author trying to indi-publish for the first time. The data and experiences we collect from this project will be released to hopefully benefit others getting started in the same position.

It's sort of like a science project for writers and the more people we can get to participate the better our results will be.

You can read more about the experiment here - www.TrystanVikar.com and you can learn more about DEVOTION here - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

The first two chapters are already released while we work on the third challenge which requires DEVOTION winding up on at least 15 “To-Read Shelves” before chapter three is released. If you want to participate, it won't cost you a dime just check out our latest challenge to see what we're looking for or maybe just spread the word.

For those who want to know what Devotion is about:

DEVOTION

A 200 year old man suffering a mid-death crisis walks into a bar to try and recapture his youth only to wake up the next day as the prisoner of a desperate young woman struggling to rescue the last bit of family she has left in the world.

Devotion is a story about the lengths one peculiar young woman will go to in order to rescue her last link with the human world. Set in modern day Saskatchewan, Alice and Cole Dovecoat were raised in a violent, fanatic cult that ultimately led to Cole’s death at the hands of a twisted monster. Alice, only a few small steps away from being a monster herself, devises a plan to rescue Cole from death by abducting a creature capable of immortality and confining them in her basement so she can harvest their life giving blood. As the hostage tries to negotiate his release, he learns that Alice is far more than a hostile religious nut and her strange and twisted origins might actually make her a powerful ally in the struggle to tame a city filled with creatures more sinister than himself.

But what happens when old enemies come out of the shadows to haunt them both? Will Alice sacrifice her plans to save her brother in exchange for her own life? Or will she find the cure she was looking for by embracing something darker than herself?