After a few months of deliberation, today I scraped the word “transmedia” from my company’s website. I didn’t do it to make some point or start a protest, and this post isn’t a manifesto, a call to action, a damnation, or an act of praise (it’s not likely to receive wide readership, anyway, much less […]
My interview at The Business Insider
Earlier this week I was interviewed by Heather Leonard at The Business Insider about my company, Brain Candy, LLC, and its first internally produced entertainment property, Runes of Gallidon. It was just one part of an amazing whirlwind trip to NYC where I was able to: – have dinner with Ivan Askwith, Cheryl Furjanic, and […]
New Brain Candy presentation: The Collaborative Property Model
We just got a new presentation up at the Brain Candy, LLC shop that is a high-level summary of how we apply our collaborative approach to entertainment content (here is a direct link). The model is incredibly flexible and scalable, and it generates new revenue streams for entertainment properties of many shapes and sizes (movies, […]
Building a Renewable Entertainment Franchise
I recently finished a presentation called “Building a Renewable Entertainment Franchise” for Brain Candy, LLC that discusses a new model for building and managing entertainment content/franchises. The presentation highlights the current challenges facing content owners in a digital age and touches on the more critical approaches to use when implementing this model. The renewable franchise […]
Kenji Novel – The Struggle with POV
After reading several books, blogs, and online articles on the elusively challenging art that is called writing, I felt prepared enough to actually start writing my first novel. The ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for three years took on a substantive form – characters, dialogue, even a rough overview of the […]