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Out now and DRM-free: Missorts Volume II

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  • December 3, 2012

Missorts Volume II (cover photo: © Bruce Gilchrist, 2008)My new novella, Missorts Volume II, was published by the brilliant Situations on 20 November, as a companion volume to my permanent public soundwork for Bristol. While the Missorts app can only be experienced in the city of Bristol, where stories and music are activated by GPS technology in the locations where the stories are set, the novella can of course be downloaded and read anywhere.

Missorts Volume II is publshed by Situations as an ebook. If the novella had a back cover, the blurb might say something like this:

Paul is a postman working nights at Bristol Temple Meads, while Ronnie does the Missorts duty on the late shift. Oliver is a lecturer who makes an unexpected discovery about William Blake – and himself – in the archives. Jenny is a young woman seeking a kind of peace with the father who walked out on her when she was a child. Four lives that barely connect, but they have all been shaped by loves lost and letters found. Now they must each find their own way to write a reply.

Missorts Volume II is part of what Situations have described as a new kind of public art work, and part of achieving this is to make the novella available not only for free but also without restrictive Digital Rights Management software. The novella is offered as a DRM-free ebook in order that it will be compatible with the majority of ebook devices and ebook reading softwares. See www.missorts.com for the DRM-free files and a help page.

The Free Software Foundation’s Defective by Design campaign has been opposing what they call Digital Restrictions Management since 2006. This DRM-free badge is made available on their site. In the words of the Defective by Design campaign, ‘This label indicates that all files provided by the supplier come free of DRM and do not require any restrictive technologies.’

New DRM-free label, Submitted by dpic on Mon, 2012-08-13 08:54As a writer I necessarily collaborate with a host of institutions and publishers on all scales to bring my fiction to readers on a variety of platforms using traditional print and emerging distribution technologies, and have been doing so for many years now. This might mean that as well as being published by Faber and Faber, I’ll work with the Science Museum to offer a free giveaway. It might mean being commissioned by art and science organisation The Arts Catalyst or collaborating with Blast Theory for Channel 4. It could mean working with Forma and the artists Jane and Louise Wilson, or having a reader post a video online within hours of a live appearance. The variety and complexity of such relationships means that it would be impossible for me to say that all my work is available DRM-free, but I do make a variety of works available on a DRM-free basis on this site. The publication of Missorts Volume II — as part of a freely available public art work — seems a good point at which to reassert the importance of doing so where possible and to draw attention to the excellent work of the Free Software Foundation. To understand the philosophy behind the Foundation, you should think, as they put it, ‘of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.”’

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Tony White, Missorts Volume II (Situations) 

ISBN: 978-0-9574728-1-5 (EPUB), or 978-0-9574728-0-8 (.mobi)

£0.00 / Free

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Praise for The Fountain in the Forest

“a gripping police procedural … impeccably Oulipian in conception and execution.” David Collard, TLS

“That all these stylistic fireworks can illuminate several rich plot lines, each with multiple twists, which an attentive reader will enjoy disentangling, is the best vindication of experimental prose.” Anna Aslanyan, Financial Times

“rich, riveting … White is always convivial company … His books [are] characterised by stylistic innovation, a feeling for place, a love of rogues and rebels. ” Sukhdev Sandhu, The Guardian

“Tony White’s latest novel begins for all the world like a police procedural, following the delightfully named sleuth Rex King as he investigates the grisly murder of man in a Covent Garden theatre. […] Enjoy it as a noir entertainment or as an evocative picture postcard from the past.” Houman Barekat, Spectator

“The Fountain in the Forest can be read with all the pleasure you might expect from a knotty police procedural, a knowledgeably detailed, intriguing and compelling police procedural at that. The story drives ever forward, even when it takes you backwards in time to take a look at the roots of the crime in question. Even when it flip-flops between two distinct time-streams and character identities within the space of a single sentence, the sense throughout is of a steady and satisfying accretion of significant information, i.e clues – exactly what you’d hope for from any good thriller. […] Read, and enjoy.” Nina Allan

“It is absolutely terrific … it can be enjoyed at the level of a thriller, and yet it does all these other fascinating things, and best of all it’s the first in a trilogy … It’s such a good book.” Andy Miller, Backlisted Podcast

“The Fountain in the Forest smartly maps an experimental, Oulipo-inspired structure onto a well-executed police procedural.” Thom Cuell, Bookmunch

“The Fountain in the Forest is a mystery built on mysteries […] it has heart and tenderness and leads us to the most unexpected places and at the centre of all this puzzling is a thriller with deep hooks.” Nick Garrard, STORGY

“A truly intriguing venture into the crime genre by the talented White.” Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time

“The Fountain in the Forest is fascinating, beautifully written and really original.” Literary Review

Praise for Foxy-T

'This is, in fact, the best book that has ever been written about Brick Lane [...] an amazing tour de force.' Roy Moxham, The Browser

'...this affectionate tale may tell you more about love, longing and ambition in the inner city than a dozen official reports. Indeed, some readers would argue that it captures the flavour of Asian lives in London E1 with more inside-track relish than another novel of 2003: Monica Ali's Brick Lane.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent

'The book I like best is Tony White’s Foxy-T. Ventriloquism among the Cannon Street xeroxing machines, innit?' Sukhdev Sandhu, 3:am Magazine

'"What's your favourite British novel from the past ten years?" The other day I was with a group of friends, and someone posed this question. A few fairly obvious titles were suggested, which gave me time to think. And when it came my turn to speak, I said, "Foxy T by Tony White".' Toby Litt, Guardian

'...made me grin with surprised admiration. Rejecting familiar influences of the past 20 years, White joins a handful of contemporary writers who are proving that the novel has never been more alive. He is a serious, engaging voice of the modern city.' Michael Moorcock, Guardian

'One of this year's key novels [...] an ingenious, beautifully crafted, thrillingly contemporary love story set in the Bangladeshi east end and narrated in that area's distinctive patois [...] A complex, clever book whose future status as a GCSE set text must be assured.' Time Out

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