Wally Lamb will release new book first as an app
Wally Lamb fans, take note: His latest book — “I’ll Take You There,” about a film professor running a movie club in a theater haunted by a silent-movie-era actress — will be published on Nov. 22.
Tech fans, take note: The novel first will be released as an app, on Nov. 20.
Metabook, which is the digital startup that helped design the app, and HarperCollins announced the dates on Tuesday.
Metabook acquired Lamb’s novel in 2013 and licensed rights to the other editions to HarperCollins.
What will be the app be? Well, it will feature a soundtrack, short movies and images based on the novel.
No details on the soundtrack yet, but we know this much is true: Lamb loves music, listens to it while writing, and names his novels after song titles.
Lamb, of course, grew up in Norwich and was an English teacher at Norwich Free Academy for years before becoming a bestselling author with such tomes as “She’s Come Undone” and “The Hour I First Believed.”
Lamb is following in the footsteps of other authors who have used apps, such as Rick Riordan.
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