Level 26ers,

After enjoying the clip above from one of the cyber-bridges, we have an amazing announcement for you today! Over the next ten days, leading up to the launch of Dark Prophecy: A Level 26 Thriller and the CSI ‘Sqweegel’ episode on October 14, we are going to be releasing one cyber-bridge a day. That’s right! We’re giving you the cyber-bridges to watch a la a web series.

One of the biggest changes we’ve made to the Digi-Novel are the cyber-bridges themselves. In Dark Origins, it was as if we just lifted scenes straight from the book and filmed them. If you were on a plane, you either had to stop reading and wait to get to a computer, or keep reading, and when you went back to watch them found that seeing one after another didn’t really make sense and the information from the scene was in the book anyway. Many of you know this and were frustrated by it.

With Dark Prophecy we’ve changed all that. We’ve shot a one hour-long narrative film that has then been cut up into 11 cyber-bridges. You’ll continue to be given a code and prompted to log in to watch the bridges at specific points, but the cyber-bridge film is a separate storyline about Steve Dark. You can watch them all at once, or none at all, you can read several chapters ahead and go back and watch four bridges at a time. Now it will all make sense. This, I feel, it one of our biggest improvements to the Digi-Novel format: taking a specific moment in the book (that may only last a chapter) and expanding it into an hour long cyber-bridge film that is provocative and emotional and reveals a side of Steve Dark you never knew existed.

We’re hoping that allowing you to watch the bridges ahead of time will not only get you even more excited for the book launch but also intrigue those who may not have read the first book or are unsure about the new one.

Don’t worry. The cyber-bridges don’t give away any of the book and you’ll probably want to watch them again to get an even deeper understanding of how they connect to the main storyline of the book. It is a truly enhance experience and a near perfect example of how, we feel, the Digi-novel should work.

So, starting on 10/4 you can tune into our YouTube channel or right here, at Level26.com to see the Dark Prophecy cyber-bridges! Here is the release schedule, for your information:

10/4: Cyber-bridge 1
10/5: Cyber-bridge 2
10/6: Cyber-bridge 3
10/7: Cyber-bridge 4
10/8: Cyber-bridge 5

10/11: Cyber-bridge 6
10/12: Cyber-bridge 7
10/13: Cyber-bridge 8
10/14: Cyber-bridge 9
10/15: Cyber-bridge 10

Can’t wait for you all to see it!

Zuiker