Penguine Books is launching a digital writing project called We Tell Stories in collaboration with Alternate Reality Game designers Six to Start. Penguin has challenged some of its top authors to create new forms of story designed specially for the internet -- blending traditional story-telling, Web 2.0-style mashups, interactive games and classic novels.

The project begins this month with six weekly installments, after which a seventh game that will tie all six together.

Each story is based on a classic novel and written by a different Penguin author, including Booker-shortlisted Mohsin Hamid, popular teen fiction author Kevin Brooks, prize-winning Naomi Alderman and bestselling thriller author Nicci French.

"The stories couldn't exist on paper. But it's not a gimmicky thing. We pushed our authors to look at how viewers and readers are going to view them, thinking about different points in the story, and about how the mechanism in the story is going to effect their writing." said Penguin's publisher Jeremy Ettinghausen.

At the end of the project is a prize...Penguin's complete library of 1,300 books.

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