Holiday Double Chocolate Stories It’s finally here! A delicious box of a dozen virtual candies with matching double chocolate stories! In case you missed the big news, here are the winners of our Holiday Writing Contest. All of their delicious 2-part stories are featured in this holiday assortment.     1st Place: Michelle Rene -“White Chocolate Peppermint Bark”  2nd Place: Ellen Lyons – “Timely Mint […]

Our Holiday Writing Contest The judges have selected the winning entries in our 2019 Holiday Writing Contest.  This contest challenged authors to write a “double chocolate” story for our voice app on Amazon Alexa. A double chocolate story is a bite-sized 2-part tale, with each part represented by a piece of delicious (virtual) chocolate. The authors were also asked to write in the voice of […]

Tellables is excited to announce our Holiday writing contest. As with our Halloween Writing Contest, we’re looking for stories we can publish in our “My Box of Chocolates” voice / audio experience on Amazon Alexa. We’re offering cash prizes!   First Prize of $100  Second Prize of $50  Third Prize of $25   Amazon Alexa – Why You May Want to Give It a Chance […]

Announcing the Winners! Our judges have selected the winning entries of our Halloween Writing Contest. We’re pleased to announce the winning authors and their chocolate stories:   1st Place: PJ Devlin -“Final Butter Cream”  2nd Place: Elana Mugdan – “Dark Chocolate Witch”  3rd Place (Tied): Jemi Fraser – “Halloween Pecan Cluster”  3rd Place (Tied): Kelly Abell – “Coiffed Confection”  Judge’s “Nostalgia” Award: Janet Shawgo – […]

What’s Inside the Box? Our latest box of chocolates is all about Halloween. Savor the candies as you hear our chocolatiers talk about what happened in their chocolate shops over the Halloween season. Amber’s Halloween turned out to be more stressful than expected. Brandon was forced to confront some inner demons. Opal and Archie had several interesting customer encounters that you won’t want to miss. […]

In this post we’ll describe the new art form of “conversational stories”, which are enabled by speech recognition technologies powering the latest generation of voice assistants. Our Definition of a Conversational Story We call ourselves a publisher of conversational stories. What do mean by conversational stories? Conversational Storytelling is made possible by platforms such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. The underlying technology allows a […]

Fall is almost here. Leaves will soon be turning colors, pumpkins will adorn porches, and children will don their spooky apparel before heading out into the night. Halloween Chocolate Stories It’s time for some spooky stories; or at least some Halloween action in our chocolate shops. To help fill our next assortment of conversational stories with tasty Halloween-themed tales, we’re running a writing contest. We’re […]

Next week brings us the exciting Digital Book World Conference, one of the great events managed by Score Publishing, the same team that’s bringing us Project Voice in January. Digital Book World 2019 We’re excited to be offering a workshop for authors at the upcoming Digital Book World in Nashville, TN. The pre-conference workshop, titled “Writing Conversational Stories for Emerging Tech Platforms“ is scheduled for September 9th at 1:30pm in […]

How do you write a compelling story for a voice app centered around chocolatiers and their chocolate shops? For that matter, how do you craft any compelling story that’s designed to be heard, not read? That’s what we’ll explore in this post. But first!!… If you haven’t yet read our Author Tips page, we recommend you start by reading through those tips before you continue. […]