BRANCHING PLOT BOOKS
Branching Plot Books is an innovative reading experience devoted to the power of reader interpretation and interactive storytelling.
About Branching Plot Books
Branching Plot Books, founded in 2012, is a collection of projects that challenge readers to participate, interpret, and reflect. While the stories and formats may seem unrelated at first glance, they're united by a single purpose: to make the audience think critically about what they see, what they believe, and how they engage with the material.
Each project, whether it's a book with multiple outcomes like The Crawl Space, a memoir like The Empty Lot Next Door, a political fable like Friend or Foe, or an expansive interactive novel like Isabel: The Forgotten Daughter of La Llorona, which offers hundreds of trillions of possible paths, invites readers to bring their own beliefs, experiences, and instincts. Interpretation isn't just allowed. It's expected.
That same interaction continues with The Scrolls of Souls and The Fugitives, where readers become part of the story by investigating, adopting, or freeing spirits.
Branching Plot Books isn't just a series. It's a platform for storytelling, reader engagement, reader interpretation, and how easily stories can be shaped, sold, or manipulated.
Branching Plot Books: Where Readers Shape the Story
Branching Plot Books challenge traditional storytelling models by prioritizing reader interpretation and interactive storytelling. The series recognizes the subjective nature of reading, leveraging it to create a more personalized literary experience.
The Many Layers of Branching Plot Books
Ambiguity
Branching Plot Books doesn't immediately showcase its linking characteristics. This ambiguity can intrigue readers, prompting them to look deeper to uncover connections.
Reader Interpretation
The primary characteristic of the Branching Plot Books series is its focus on the reader's subjective experience. Our stories aren't rigid but rather fluid, changing based on readers’ personal backgrounds and emotional states.
Enhanced Interactivity
Some books in the series amplify the interactive aspect, offering readers tangible choices that affect story outcomes, like The Crawl Space. This design enhances re-readability, as readers can explore different paths and outcomes.
Relativity of Interpretation
The series emphasizes that there's no definitive way to understand its content. This democratization of storytelling can be liberating, as it shifts some authorial power to the reader.
About Arthur
For over two decades, Arthur served as an Army Intelligence Warrant Officer, specializing in piecing together what others missed: patterns, threats, enemy intent, and clandestine activity. He also trained intelligence professionals, built threat models, and briefed commanders and world leaders on global threats and battlefield strategy. After retiring from the military, he transitioned into private investigation, focusing on missing persons, human trafficking, opposition research, and fraud cases. He also holds a degree in Counterterrorism, adding academic grounding to the skills he developed in the field. Today, he continues his work as an Intelligence Analyst for a leading global agency, following domestic and international threats.
He is an award-winning author who has been writing books since 2006. While he publishes under his own name, much of his best and most widely read work has appeared under pseudonyms. Readers may already know those titles, although they would not know they are his. That separation is intentional because just as his books invite readers to participate and interpret what is hidden between the lines, his career as a writer reflects the same principle.