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In the past, many high-tech companies – both start-up and established – approached me to help them craft a story universe for a new consumer technology that promised to change the world. These new technologies were not improvements of current products, but actual new product catego-ries. The technology in question wasn’t a video game, as I was accustomed to doing. But because I had worked in that industry, that is, because I had worked with engineers, I was well suited to take on a new challenge in an adjacent field. My work for these high-tech clients took me to worlds inside a virtual reality headset, to television shows that could change storylines instantly with the tap of a finger on a screen, to a robot that helped kids on the spectrum understand the world around them.

These weren’t just jobs, but adventures. For me, experiencing new tech-nologies is as exciting as exploring a country I’ve never been to before. In my work, I feel empowered when traversing uncharted territory, creating a storytelling grammar from which others could evolve.

Not long after these experiences, I discovered that I was not alone. I met other writers who chartered similar terrain but for competing products. And then I met others who dwelled in adjacent worlds, creating story experiences for amusement park rides, digital board games, and virtual assistants. We got to talking (at a high level, mind you) about tackling new content challenges on untested technologies. There were shared methods, synergies, and many lessons to learn. After the wonderful experience I had codifying my best practices for video games in the book Dramatic Storytelling & Narrative Design: A Writer’s Guide to Video Games and Transmedia (CRC Press, 2020), I thought it best to do a follow-up for sto-rytelling for new technologies and platforms, but to seek out the contribu-tions from colleagues whose unique experiences and points of view would add unique depth and meaningful variety from which readers, students, and writers-to-be would benefit heavily.