News
Coming in May
All 3 Cathy books (Cathy's Book, Cathy's Key, and Cathy's Ring)will be available both audio books and as iPhone apps, with complete functionality -- so you can browse links, call the numbers, and twist, tilt, tap and slide on every page to activate the animations.
Watch for more news!
26 November 2008
Sean is reading with Aimee Bender in San Francisco at the Variety Preview Room Theatre (582 Market St. @ Montgomery) on January 17, 2009 at 7:00pm. Event sponsored by SFinSF
26 June 2008
Cathy Vickers does her first interview on Kids' Q & A at Powells.com.
20 May 2008
Check out the Cathy's Key trailer on YouTube or see it here!
6 May 2008
Cathy's Key, the sequel to Cathy's Book, is now available in hardcover in stores!
2 April 2008
PC Online Chat about Perfect Circle
24 March 2008
NOW LIVE: www.cathyskey.com
24 March 2008
Now available in hardcover for pre-order from Amazon.com—Cathy's Key.
6 March 2008
Cathy's Book now available in paperback at a store near you.
December 2007
Wired has featured the Year Zero project in Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games.
October 2007
Along with Elan Lee and Jim Stewartson, Sean has founded a new company, Fourth Wall Studios. The goal of 4WS is to use your browser and email, IM and phone to deliver compelling stories that stand on their own next to books, video games, and movies as a new category of entertainment.
October 2007
Cathy's Book hits best-seller lists in Germany, Italy, and Sweden.
27 April 2007
2007 ARGFest Keynote Address (with Elan Lee)
Watch the 2-part video of Sean and Elan's 2007 ARGFest keynote address, "Play My Game! Trusting Strangers and Eating their Candy."
7 November 2006
Cathy's Book to debut on New York Times bestseller list
Sean's much-talked-about YA novel Cathy's Book debuted on the New York Times "Children's Chapter Books" bestseller list at #7.
Beyond the Fourth Wall
Sean Stewart began his career as an award-winning novelist. In 2001 he was the lead writer on the A.I. Web Mystery, nicknamed The Beast, the project which created the genre of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs). Since then he has continued publish traditional novels while pioneering new kinds of storytelling through a series of groundbreaking online projects including i love bees and the Nine Inch Nails Year Zero experience.
His most recent novels, Cathy's Book and Cathy's Key, merge these careers by using websites, phone numbers, emails and other "fourth wall" techniques to create uniquely interactive stories.
Want to know more? Read Amphibious: Notes on the Emergence of a New Kind of Art.
Work History
