To save his job Phillip Sims pitches a new website to his bosses at Harpo Cullens. Will he save the publishing industry with Uthonomy?
Confused sexually Phillip Sims frames his Oxford-English-degree above his desk at the mega publisher Harpo Cullens which eminently qualifies him to edit books or deep-fry potatoes and batter fish.
His boss Holts disappears following a review of the new website. Phillip is thrust into the spotlight by stealing an idea overheard in the elevator.
"Post anyone's book, idiot authors edit each-other’s work saving us expense. They decide who is good, the best with the marketing savvy -- float to the top."
Cynical enough for the board -- Crazy enough for the upper management not to know what to do with it.
Technology luddites, they still reminisces the good old days of the Gutenberg-Press, horse-drawn-carriages and masted-sailing-ships..
“Set the type by hand in my day..rather."
“I forged some letters for the block myself."
“I still keep the quill that my first editor used when making notes on hand written manuscripts penned by gas light."
Suspicious of e-books, websites, twitter -- heaven forbid...whatever a Kindle is. Wanting to push paper of dead authors and suffocate anything different that may threaten to un-hinge their slipping-grip of mediocrity.
The old web dashed -- is Phillip’s career next on the block...or wil he save them?