Starscribes Editing and Publishing Services

In September 2012, a call went out for a group of writers to come together and collaborate on developing a serial space opera for both fun and profit. It didn’t take long to fill up the queue and before October there were five collaborators building a whole new universe in which a new story could unfold. M Cid D’Angelo, a literary author with a few genre works under his belt first presented the idea on Facebook and then Mike Manz carried it over to the fledgling Google Plus platform. Justin Zimmer, Tom Costello and Ann Siracusa joined in from there. A sixth was sought and found but didn’t last and over the next nine months the Fénix and her crew were born and their adventure — The Fénix Saga — was laid out into a serial that would span numerous episodes as an ongoing web series with a fully detailed wiki of each character and nuance within the universe. The founding five gave birth to this universe with the intention of inviting other authors to join in on the telling. The original plan was for a serial comprised of short episodes that cover a larger and possibly indefinite story arc, but plans change. A universe is a very big place with many names and many settings. There are stories within stories, and alternative viewpoints. There are endless perspectives and numerous timelines. There is a future and a past and places where they might meet that isn’t in the present. A universe is also multi-verse and people and settings change by subtle differences in the starting conditions of their history. Is the Fénix an airship? Is it a time ship? Is it a pirate ship? The StarScribes Collaboration Universe is an umbrella for just about any foray into these possibilities. So, who are the Starscribes? That isn’t even the right question. How about, are you a Starscribe?