“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

– Oscar Wilde

R.O. Shipman loves one thing: narrative. As an emerging-media production company, we take advantage of the unique features of modern social media platforms to craft a new kind of narrative content.

Our latest project, P4L3 F1R3, is a modern retelling of Nabokov's Pale Fire told entirely through Tiktok videos. Viewers were led to believe the story was really happening, and were thus able to experience the conflicts in real time, interact with the characters, and even try to change the ending. The series — posted in twelve parts — accumulated over 15,000 views in only two weeks. To read more, visit the PROJECTS page, or see the film for yourself here, via @b3baptiste on Tiktok.

Addtionally, R.O. Shipman has published several novels under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This allows the work to be re-used and re-shared, so long as attribution is provided to the creator and the work is not used for commercial purposes. Inspired by emerging media and content-sharing sites such as the Internet Archive and AO3, this unique approach to publishing allows us to prioritize readership, natural fan-based promotion, and freedom of information over profit. To read those books, visit the PROJECTS page.

We are also provide consulting on a limited basis to promote traditionally published works through our unique emerging-media-based strategies. If you are interested in working with us, select CONTACT US.