Last year I was granted the immense privilege of writing a real live actual Choose Your Own Adventure gamebook for Chooseco.
Blood Island, as the resulting volume was titled, tells ookie spookie tales about YOU, an intrepid biologist determined to find living proof of a giant prehistoric bird, w...
It’s 4:23PM on a Friday and this pops into your mailbox:
If you choose to freak out, turn to page 5.
If you choose to hit the ground running and build the most awesome interactive story Twitter has ever seen, turn to page 10.
Surprise, we chose page 10. Chooseco’s participation in the Twitter Fic...
Since the second printing of Choose Your Own Adventure, back in 1979, the books have opened with actual responses from kids.
These “kids” are adults now and we’ve heard from many of them who remember how exciting it was to see their names in print inside of a famous book series. A few of them h...
We have been hard at work on 2015 publications. These books are in their final stages now, but here’s a sneak peek of the artwork from one title at the very beginning, when it was just sketches. This art will decorate the pages of a very famous Choose Your Own Adventure coming back to print for...
We attend press checks to watch the books being made. It's always fun because a lot of our work happens quietly at a desk, but the printing happens in a humongous open warehouse filled with loud machines.
Visitors have to wear ear plugs as a safety precaution. Our printers speak French, so betw...