Skate Crime - multimedia edition
"Skate Crime" is currently up and ready for purchase (and already the 8th best-selling skating book on Amazon!).
FIRST EVER MULTIMEDIA SKATING NOVEL PUBLISHED
Alina Adams, author of the figure-skating mystery series of books including “Murder on Ice,” “On Thin Ice,” “Axel of Evil,” “Death Drop,” and “Skate Crime,” has taken experiencing her books to an unprecedented next level by adding skating videos (courtesy of The Ice Theatre of New York) right into the text!
While all five novels were initially published as paperbacks by Berkley Prime Crime, only one, “Skate Crime” is currently available as an e-book.
“Skate Crime: Multimedia Edition” does not contain the entire text of the original but is, instead, a condensed excerpt enhanced with video clips.
Explains Adams, “I spent five books describing the skating routines my characters were performing (sometimes in less than flattering terms, too), but the fact is, nothing beats seeing a world-class athlete in action. With “Skate Crime: Multimedia,” you can read the story through the Kindle app on your iPad, iPhone, or desktop (Mac or PC), and then actually watch the routines being described. It’s not exactly a book and it’s not exactly a movie. I like to think of it as Storytelling for the 21st Century.”
Like the protagonist of her series, Adams worked as television figure skating researcher for ABC and ESPN (National and World Championships, and the Grand Prix), NBC (StarSkates), and TNT (1998 Winter Olympic Games) As Alina Sivorinovsky, she is the author of “Sarah Hughes: Skating to the Stars,” and “Inside Figure Skating.” She also served as a Contributing Editor to “International Figure Skating Magazine.”
Adams got the idea to combine text and visuals after spending ten years as Creative Content Producer at TeleNext Media/Procter & Gamble Productions. “While at P&G, I developed two on-line properties for them, www.AnotherWorldToday.com and http://twitter.com/melindasuelewis, which told serialized stories in a combination of words and video clips. I thought that if it worked for on-line soap-operas, it would be even better for figure skating, which is such a visually-oriented sport.”
“Skate Crime: Multimedia Edition” retails for $.99 cents in Amazon’s Kindle store