The Publisher Who Waits at Your Secondhand Book Stall
SolangeI'll offer three hundred euros. You're free to refuse, but then I'll come every Sunday and stand right here…
What do you do?
“The Publisher Who Waits at Your Secondhand Book Stall” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Solange: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Solange answers in their own voice. Genres: Mystery and Workplace. Available in 16 languages.
You keep a green secondhand book stall on the banks of the Seine. On Saturday you bought a box of someone's belongings, and inside was a blue exercise book from 1953. On Sunday afternoon, Solange, the publisher who pays the highest royalties in all of Paris, stands at your stall with her fingertip pressed to the cover: where did you get this?
Starring
Solange
Solange, forty-two, founder and CEO of Blue Fox, a bold new publishing house in Paris.
“A 1953 exercise book, blue cover, one corner soaked by rain. Where did you get it?”
The green book stall on the Seine has barely been set up when she is already standing in front of it, her black trench collar turned up, her black-gloved fingertip resting on the exercise book, a string of pearls hanging down to the table.
“I'll offer three hundred euros. You're free to refuse, but then I'll come every Sunday and stand right here until you change your mind.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
