The Miracle in July: Digital Love BecomesExperiment in Guerrilla Publishing

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Do you have what it takes to follow your bliss?

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@mediaChick Experimental. Sexy. Interactive. Bliss. Have you experienced The Miraclein July?http://themiracleinjuly.com@mediaChick Loving The Miracle in July? Want to help the guerrilla effort? Donate today!http://themiracleinjuly.com/story/donate/

A Brief Tweetnopsis of the The Miracle in July

Where we are

(in 140 characters):#themiracleis a genre-bending experiment in life story writing, with concentration onmanifesting one's destiny through fictional elements.

And where we want to go

(in 140 characters):

#themiraclereverse-engineers publishing with strong writing, submerged multimedia,eager fans, and leads to a hardback book.

The Miracle in July - a digital love story

PORTLAND, OR

: Told in weekly online segments in three Acts, and bookended by aPrologue and Epilogue,

The Miracle in July

is based on the true experiences of the authorMichelle Anderson.It is a small glimpse into her past, and maybe her future.Its purposeis to prove there are alternative ways to share stories with a worldwide audience,starting with an Internet version and ending with a hardback book.The author startedthe project on July 6, 2009.Painting a picture worth a thousand words with user-generated media,

The Miracle in July

explores the paradoxical nature of online relationships.Multimedia is embedded inthe online text to help submerge the reader in the the author's life and the experience of falling in love online.It is raw, revealing and personal.It is an invitation to be a voyeurin a digital love story.The use of sound, words, images and seamless interactivewindows make this digital love story an experiment in sculpting with tools available toanyone connected to the Internet.Reader feedback -- about the story and the use of multimedia as a storytelling device --is taken into consideration and sometimes helps shape the project.There is a shorthiatus between Acts.At the end of the run of weekly online releases of

The Miracle in July

, the three Acts will be edited and joined together to become an offline, hardbackbook. This book, which compliments the interactive Internet version, is a ultimate goal of the project.The author also hopes to redefine the path of "success" in story publishing, and toinspire other authors to

follow their bliss

The Word On the Street

"The Miracle in July is probably the most badass use of Wordpress I've ever seen.It's amodern love…" –Anthony Volodkinof HypeM.com "The incorporation of multimedia creates an atmosphere that comes as close as any Ihave experienced to truly getting inside the mind of the writer." –ReadingLocal.com"This blend of story telling with multimedia is ushering a new generation … and Michelleis leading the charge." –Apture"All links are worked into the sentence structure. Consider: "Becca came to [sit down bythe fire] next to me…" In this passage, "sit down by the fire" is a link to a song by TheVeils. Clicking the link starts the embedded song, and also brings up a very small boxthat has links to The Veils on Amazon, a Scribd box with song lyrics, The Veils officialweb page, and also a link to their MySpace page. That's an impressive amount of information tucked neatly into this story." –Conversations in Marketing"Sometimes you happen upon something that gives you a little bit of a shiver down yourspine…It's not a blog. It's an experience." –Cami Kaosof Strange Love Live "It's MORE than just a story you go to a website and read. There's pictures. Video.Music. All embedded into the story, and it truly makes it come alive. You are instantlyimmersed into the sounds, the images, the feel of the story. And since much of it takes

place in Portland, there's links to local places, and events, and people." –OurPDX.com"The Miracle in July, is one part story telling, one part media experiment, and one partreverse engineering of the publishing industry." –TheAbundantArtist.com

Links

The Miracle in July (MIJ):

http://themiracleinjuly.com

The MIJ Author:

http://themiracleinjuly.com/story/about/the-author-michelle-anderson/

The Author Discussing MIJ onStrange Love Live:

http://strangelovelive.com/

The MIJ Donation Page:

http://themiracleinjuly.com/story/donate/

The MIJ Social Media Page:

http://themiracleinjuly.com/story/press/

The MIJ Music: