Columbia, SC --  Twine Publishing, a small press that specializes in children’s fantasy literature, launches a Kickstarter campaign for its upcoming children’s novel series entitled THE JADE SERIES. The 45 day campaign (ending August 1st) is designed to help the Twine team raise funds to put towards publishing expensive to include online marketing, trade advertising and offset printing services. For more details click here:

http://kck.st/19K47Fa

Twine Publishing is excited to present The Jade Series, a soon to be LARGER THAN LIFE bildungsroman American fantasy–adventure novel series. The series will consist of six books created for children between the ages of 9 and 14 years old and will also chronicle the adventures of THE JADE, a set of 12 year old opposite sex twins with inborn psychic powers and mystical martial arts abilities. The first novel will evolve around the twins discovering at the age of 12 that they are a special set of warrior twins called a Jade that have been created to a defend a kingdom called Kendare from a dark evil warlord named Xzaidian who threatens all of mankind in his quest for vengeance and ultimate power.

About The Jade Series
The world that is being created for The Jade Series is completely separate from reality yet intimately connected to it. While the fantasy land of Narnia is an alternative universe and Lord of the Rings' Middle-earth a mythic past, the world of the Jade will exists in parallel to the real world and contain mythical versions of the ordinary elements of everyday life. Many of its institutions and locations will be recognizable and it will be comprised of a fragmented collection of hidden streets, underground pubs, estates, villages, cities, economic strips and government complexes.

The Jade Series’ novels will fall within the genre of fantasy literature; however, in many respects they will also be bildungsromans, or coming of age novels and contain elements of mystery, adventure, magic, mythology and martial arts. The novels will also be what you might call shrewd mystery tales. Each book will be constructed in the manner of a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery adventure. The stories will also be told from a third person limited point of view.

“We have set what we believe to be two very achievable goals for The Jade Series,” said N.V. Williams, founder of Twine Publishing and author of The Jade Series. “We of course want to grow The Jade Series into the next and would be only children’s fantasy literature phenomenon since the Harry Potter Series. However, the most important objective of all is to turn children into avid readers again. To this day, more than 450,000,000 Harry Potter books have sold worldwide giving light to the fact that children read more during the time of Harry Potter than they ever had before or ever have since. The Harry Potter Series’ readership was nothing short of phenomenal and this is what we aim to rekindle with The Jade Series.”

Author N. V. Williams and the Twine Publishing team have fashioned a new writing/story building technique that they refer to as the “APPEAL FORMULA”, which consists of seven elements:

- A captivating story
- Uniquely constructed world
- Unique fantasy elements
- Unique characters
- Relatable protagonist
- Cliffhangers
- Originality

“Employing the Appeal Formula will be one of the sure ways to engage children and keep them loyal to the book series,” Williams said. “And of all the elements, the one that has to stand out is ORIGINALITY, which means that we will be incorporating totally unheard of elements, objects and even vocabulary everywhere we possibly can throughout the entire series.”

If Twine is able to meet their funding goal and possibly even hit their stretch goals, they will be able to get The Jade Series off the ground fairly quickly with extensive marketing and promotions. The company also promises to distribute many copies of the books to libraries, schools and even recreational centers across the US once they are able to afford offset printing. The company has also put together some really cool reward packages for their supporters. Packages will include PDF books, printed books, audio books, magnets, posters, weapon replicates and even LIGHT UP FLASHING T-SHIRTS.

For more information send an email via kickstarter at: http://kck.st/19K47Fa

About Twine Publishing
Twine Publishing is as small press located in Columbia, SC and currently composed of five key executives: N. V. Williams, CEO and Author of The Jade Series; Raphael Benson, Graphics Artist; Sidney Whitfield, PR Manager; Justin Holloway, Online Media Manager and Ronnie P. Todd, Director of Sales and Marketing.