I've been around authoring for some years, but I never thought I'd witness the birth of an entirely new genre - not some small modification by adding an adjective here or adverb there, but an entirely new genre! 

I think all of us in the book authoring and publishing world have been wondering if there might be a bridge between youth of today and books. After all, youth today have multi-million-dollar 3-D IMAX movies, YouTube, anime, video games, a veritable cornucopia of visually-directed works spoon-fed to them that don't require one iota of imagination. What could possible re-engage this group to reading? Well, I think I've found it. 


The Screenplay Novel - see CHANG THE MAGIC CAT (Aignos 2017) for example - has less descriptive prose and more succinct visual cues that people reading the book say is half-way between the visual and reading arts. The difference is that the Screenplay Novel engages, but leaves plenty of room for imagination and discovery. 

Want to bring print to reality? A Screenplay Novel has all the necessary elements to allow a group of engaged folks to put it on as a play or even record it on film! 

So, let's hear it for this new genre, with kudos to A. G. Hayes who authored this first in Aignos Publishing's new line of Screenplay Novel works.