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My interactive multimedia short story “Air Quality”
My interactive multimedia short story “Air Quality”
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What people are saying about Air Quality:
“Air Quality is so much more than an eBook. Ms. Abbott has created a new and unique interactive reading experience employing technology as a literary device” – New York Journal of Books. http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/
“Jillian Abbot’s Air Quality is a cautionary tale that moves the heart but also opens the imagination to the vast new possibilities of the multimedia story. – Annamaria Alfieri, author: Strange Gods and Blood Tango” (AKA Pat King, President, Mystery Writers of America, New York Chapter).
“Thank you for continuing to be an anti-tobacco champion . . . We can only do so much as a health dept and RELY on partners like you to help get smokers to quit. . . thanks again for doing what you do Jillian!” Sayone Thihalolipavan, MD, MPH, CTTS, Medical Director, Clinical & Scientific Affairs Unit, Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention & Tobacco Control, NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, O: 347.396.2850 | C: 347.578.5550, www.nyc.gov/nycquits
“The Government welcomes innovative ideas and initiatives, such as your ebook, that may assist smokers to understand the devastating effects smoking can have on themselves and their loved ones. . . The Department . . . would be happy to recommend it to stakeholders that may be interested.” Paul Smith, Deputy Secretary, Mental Health, Wellbeing and Aging, Victorian Department of Health.
“Jillian Abbott has created a new and compelling form of fiction with her iBook [Author] short story "Air Quality," which seamlessly blends visual, auditory, and textual elements. Inventive, vibrant, and engaging, this story--about a man trying to quit smoking after receiving dire health news--is the future of the eBook and points to new possibilities within the form. Abbott has expanded the notion of voice within fiction, as her story includes the Australian-accented speech of some of the characters, along with the repeated sounds of coughing and the striking of a match. "Air Quality"; provides a great new reading experience, and I highly recommend it” – Jean Murley, Edgar Award Nominee, author: The Rise of True Crime: Twentieth Century Murder and American Popular Culture.
“Nothing short of amazing” – Terrie Farley Moran author: Read ‘Em and Eat Cafe mystery series (upcoming in 2015 from Berkley).
[Air Quality is] “A compelling narrative about the struggle with cigarettes and the damage they can do—who has not been haunted by the sound of someone “drowning one day at a time”?—the book is also unique for it activates much of what is possible in e-books: sounds, both ambient and dramatic; images, moving and still, as illustration and as part of the visual design of the book.” – Joel Kuszai, poet, critic, publisher, nyfree.net.
“The project [Air Quality] is a really interesting example of how iBooks Author can and could be used. Good work” Davey Addey, app developer, BAFTA award nominee for “Malcolm Tucker: The missing Phone” app.
“Air Quality is so much more than an eBook. Ms. Abbott has created a new and unique interactive reading experience employing technology as a literary device” – New York Journal of Books. http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/
“Jillian Abbot’s Air Quality is a cautionary tale that moves the heart but also opens the imagination to the vast new possibilities of the multimedia story. – Annamaria Alfieri, author: Strange Gods and Blood Tango” (AKA Pat King, President, Mystery Writers of America, New York Chapter).
“Thank you for continuing to be an anti-tobacco champion . . . We can only do so much as a health dept and RELY on partners like you to help get smokers to quit. . . thanks again for doing what you do Jillian!” Sayone Thihalolipavan, MD, MPH, CTTS, Medical Director, Clinical & Scientific Affairs Unit, Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention & Tobacco Control, NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, O: 347.396.2850 | C: 347.578.5550, www.nyc.gov/nycquits
“The Government welcomes innovative ideas and initiatives, such as your ebook, that may assist smokers to understand the devastating effects smoking can have on themselves and their loved ones. . . The Department . . . would be happy to recommend it to stakeholders that may be interested.” Paul Smith, Deputy Secretary, Mental Health, Wellbeing and Aging, Victorian Department of Health.
“Jillian Abbott has created a new and compelling form of fiction with her iBook [Author] short story "Air Quality," which seamlessly blends visual, auditory, and textual elements. Inventive, vibrant, and engaging, this story--about a man trying to quit smoking after receiving dire health news--is the future of the eBook and points to new possibilities within the form. Abbott has expanded the notion of voice within fiction, as her story includes the Australian-accented speech of some of the characters, along with the repeated sounds of coughing and the striking of a match. "Air Quality"; provides a great new reading experience, and I highly recommend it” – Jean Murley, Edgar Award Nominee, author: The Rise of True Crime: Twentieth Century Murder and American Popular Culture.
“Nothing short of amazing” – Terrie Farley Moran author: Read ‘Em and Eat Cafe mystery series (upcoming in 2015 from Berkley).
[Air Quality is] “A compelling narrative about the struggle with cigarettes and the damage they can do—who has not been haunted by the sound of someone “drowning one day at a time”?—the book is also unique for it activates much of what is possible in e-books: sounds, both ambient and dramatic; images, moving and still, as illustration and as part of the visual design of the book.” – Joel Kuszai, poet, critic, publisher, nyfree.net.
“The project [Air Quality] is a really interesting example of how iBooks Author can and could be used. Good work” Davey Addey, app developer, BAFTA award nominee for “Malcolm Tucker: The missing Phone” app.