About GoodBoy Press
Stories can carry forms of truth.
GoodBoy Press develops original narrative work for page, screen, stage, sound and other forms.
GoodBoy uses narrative to make complex inner, relational and social dynamics vivid enough to be lived with rather than merely understood.
A framework can explain how something moves. A story can let a person feel what that movement costs. By placing ideas within characters, relationships, circumstances and worlds, GoodBoy explores what happens when those ideas have to be lived.
GoodBoy uses narrative to make complex inner, relational and social dynamics vivid enough to be lived with rather than merely understood.
A framework can explain how something moves. A story can let a person feel what that movement costs. By placing ideas within characters, relationships, circumstances and worlds, GoodBoy explores what happens when those ideas have to be lived.
An independent press
The story shapes the form.
GoodBoy is a medium-flexible publishing practice. A property may become a novel, memoir, screenplay, series, musical, graphic narrative, essay, podcast or interconnected storyworld depending on the form the idea requires.
Development can move through world building, character development, outlining, drafting, revision, treatment and pitch materials, format selection, and collaboration with publishers, producers and other creative partners.
The form may change as the work develops. The story remains at the center.
Development can move through world building, character development, outlining, drafting, revision, treatment and pitch materials, format selection, and collaboration with publishers, producers and other creative partners.
The form may change as the work develops. The story remains at the center.
Narrative Philosophy
Building stories from the worldview beneath them.
GoodBoy is interested in narrative gives that complexity room to move. Characters can contradict themselves. Perspectives can change. Choices have consequences. Humor can sit beside grief. An idea that appears clear in the abstract can become considerably less tidy once people have to live inside it.
The work takes its ideas seriously while giving the story room to be a story: something to enter, follow, feel, enjoy and interpret. What someone finds there is partly theirs.
The work takes its ideas seriously while giving the story room to be a story: something to enter, follow, feel, enjoy and interpret. What someone finds there is partly theirs.
Story to audience.
A growing body of original work.
GoodBoy develops work for readers, listeners and audiences, and for publication and production with publishers, filmmakers, theater makers, producers and other creative partners.
Some properties may be published directly. Others may find their way through partnerships, adaptations or new forms as they develop.
Some properties may be published directly. Others may find their way through partnerships, adaptations or new forms as they develop.
GoodBoy Press is the publishing practice of LiminalForge Ventures.
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