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The Future of Storytelling Preorder

What if we told you that you didn’t have to just passively watch or read stories?
You can actually live them.

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Preorder The Future of Storytelling by Charles Melcher for a chance to win your very own Immersive Getaway, where you can decide on the destination and experiences for yourself!

One lucky person will win:

  • A Sandbox VR “Golden Ticket,” which includes five different VR experiences for two people at the location(s) of your choice (ARV: $550)
  • A Meow Wolf Annual Portal Pass Supremium, which includes admission to all five Meow Wolf locations for one year (ARV: $139)
  • $500 AirBNB gift card, allowing you to choose the cities and experiences you’d most like to visit (ARV: $500)

To enter, preorder the book and fill out the form below.
No purchase necessary, see Official Rules.

The Prizes

Sandbox VR “Golden Ticket”

At Sandbox VR, people can explore virtual worlds and rely on each other to succeed in games specifically designed to be social experiences. When guests step into these virtual worlds, they experience the world’s most advanced virtual reality. Guests choose from seven exclusive experiences each designed to make them feel like they are the stars of their own action movie.

The “Golden Ticket” entitles the winner and a guest to book five different VR experiences in a year at the U.S. location(s) of their choice.

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Meow Wolf Portal Pass Supremium

Meow Wolf is an immersive art adventure –step inside, explore, and uncover the unexpected. There are locations in Santa Fe, Las Vegas, Denver, Grapevine, and Houston, with each location offering different themes and experiences.

The Portal Pass Supremium provides the winner unlimited admission to all five locations for one year, two additional complimentary tickets per year, exclusive access to special events, and discounts on food & drinks and to the Meow Wolf online shop.

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$500 AirBNB Gift Card

Airbnb is an online platform that allows property owners, or hosts, to rent accommodations to travelers. Every day, hosts offer unique stays, experiences, and services that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

With this gift card, the winner will be able to spend a weekend in any U.S. city of their choice that will allow them easy access to the Sandbox VR and Meow Wolf experiences that they would like to visit. For ideas on additional immersive experiences to add to your itinerary, check your copy of The Future of Storytelling!

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About the Book

The first, foundational book on the next media renaissance, from one of the foremost thought leaders at the intersection of storytelling and technology. 

These days we don’t want to just watch our media—we want to be a part of it. To touch, feel, and test our surroundings, to make decisions that directly affect the story’s outcome. Immersive events—such as the Stranger Things Experience and productions like Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More—are growing at such a staggering rate that their revenue will soon outpace film and television combined. Investors, creators, and technology leaders from the likes of Apple, Facebook, and Netflix have quietly invested billions of dollars in this new medium.

But what makes immersive experiences so appealing, and why? What does it say about us as a culture? And who is behind this revolution in entertainment? For more than ten years, Charles Melcher, founder and director of Future of StoryTelling (FoST), has been invited into the studios, garages, offices, and academic corridors where the rules of storytelling are being rewritten. And in this eye-opening book, he has curated a selection of the very best immersive experiences from around the world—Meow Wolf in the United States, teamLab in Japan, Hobbiton in New Zealand, and many more. It’s a celebration of both the projects themselves and the extraordinarily creative people who have brought them to life, and a clarion call to better understand and appreciate this paradigm-shifting moment and the opportunities immersive entertainment offers for the next generation of creators, businesspeople, and audiences.

Preorder the book from Hachette, any of the retailers listed below, or your local independent bookstore.

About the Author

Charles H. Melcher

About the Author

Charles Melcher is a creator, curator, and thought leader in the storytelling and technology space, as well as an early- stage investor and advisor to media and technology companies. In 2012, he founded Future of StoryTelling (FoST), a multidisciplinary story studio committed to creating transformative stories and experiences that bring people together, inspire curiosity, and enact positive change. FoST began as an invitation-only summit that drew a mix of thinkers and practitioners from diverse fields who are shaping storytelling in the twenty-first century. Inc. magazine named it one of the “10 most Innovative Conferences of 2016,” Adweek named it among the “7 Emerging Conferences Every Advertising Professional Should Know About,” and Forbes named it one of the top “Global Events Getting Immersive Right.” The FoST Summit expanded from a one-day event for 300 people to a week-long summit and festival that drew upwards of 6,000 people. Now, following the recent pandemic, the FoST Summit has shifted to a year-around membership program that includes virtual and in-person programming and networking opportunities— ranging from tours of the most cutting-edge immersive story worlds, to world-class speakers, to small-group meetings and social gatherings. FoST also produces content throughout the year, including apps, websites, films, and immersive experiences; storytelling workshops; curated exhibitions with local and international organizations; a monthly newsletter, “FoST in Thought”; and the bi-weekly FoST Podcast, which Melcher hosts. FoST also developed and teaches a storytelling curriculum and consults on storytelling best practices for companies such as Microsoft, Ford, NBCUniversal, and others. In 2019, FoST was engaged as the official Executive Storytellers for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, which is currently scheduled to open to the public in 2025. Melcher also helps to run the Content Studio for the Library.

Melcher is also the founder and CEO of Melcher Media. Launched in 1993, the company helps international brands (Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, PepsiCo, GE, and Lexus), media companies (Netflix, HBO, Time Warner, NBC, USA, TBS, and Condé Nast), and individual authors (Oprah Winfrey, Al Gore, Lin-Manuel Miranda, J.J. Abrams, Kobe Bryant, and Eminem) to tell their stories via beautifully illustrated and produced books. Melcher Media has more than 15 million books in print, including 31 New York Times bestsellers. Melcher speaks regularly on the intersection of storytelling and technology at conferences, festivals, and conventions worldwide. Past engagements have included SXSW, C2 Montréal, EY Innovation Realized, the Milken Institute Global Conference, and Phi Centre’s The New Storytellers.

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