E-zine Drama Brings US Readers Closer To Scotland

An online drama is helping to bring e-zine readers in the United States closer to life in Scotland. "Hunting Jack," an e-serial by Edinburgh author Colin Galbraith, is proving to be a popular story with American readers as well as other nationalities around the world. Published by KeepItComing.net the twice-weekly editions is running a competition offering free subscriptions to this popular serial, which is proving to be a welcome insight for readers desperate for Scottish-base fiction.

(PRWEB) January 27, 2005 -- It's midnight in London, and Jackie McCann is alone, and on the run. With all but the clothes on his back, a small amount of money and a letter that could change his life forever, he is determined to make his way to Scotland to find his true identity and to realise his dreams.

For years they told him he was part of their family, and that he had been the sole survivor of the car crash that wiped out his biological parents. But now, his life has been turned upside down upon finding a letter from them - hidden by his adoptive family. A fight ensues and he realises it is time for him to flee the streets of London.

Jackie felt his heart pound within his chest; his mouth dry and his forehead hot. Slowly, he pulled the letter from his pocket, and swallowed hard."

Jackie boards a bus to Glasgow unaware his life is changing forever. He becomes embroiled in a way of life on Glasgows streets and finds out the hard way, that not everyone, or everything, is what it seems. He makes a move to Edinburgh and after a chance encounter, forms a friendship with a film producer during The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They become friends and it seems he has met an ally who can help him fulfil his dreams, as well as his desire to locate his parents. But when two people close to him are found murdered, could Jackies past be finally catching up with him? Does Jackie wish he stayed in London, or is his new family the type of people he could learn to love?

"Hunting Jack" was inspired by the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2004. Galbraith explained: I see homeless people every day in Edinburgh, and during the Festival they seem to blend into the crowds of performers and audiences that gather in the streets. I started thinking about how easy it would be for a homeless person to stand on a street corner, say they were performing in The Fringe and make some cash. The idea then grew from there -- a runaway boy looking for his family who finds himself homeless in Edinburgh during the festival and having to perform for money, which ironically is his ultimate dream."

Galbraith continues, Ultimately this is a mystery, maybe even a love story, but the grittiness of the characters and their locations will give anyone who reads it an insight into both life on the streets, as well as life in Scotland."

Competition

KeepitComing is running a competition based around five easy questions on Scotland. The prize is a free months subscription to "Hunting jack."

Details on how to enter and the questions themselves, can be found at the following link: http://www.keepitcoming.net/huntingjack-contest.html

"Hunting Jack" publishes on Tuesdays and Fridays each week on the internets leading serial fiction provider, keepitcoming.net.

Subscribers receive a new issue each day, along with a free issue of an alternate story from the e-zine website. No matter when you subscribe, you start with the first issue. For more information and to receive a free issue of this exciting new story, visit: http://www.keepitcoming.net/hunting-jack.html.

Colin Galbraith is 31, lives in Edinburgh and is the author of a string of published short stories and poems. He is currently working on an exciting new novel set in Glasgow in the late 1990s, tentatively entitled A Friend To Die For.

For further information about "Hunting Jack" or Colin Galbraith, including interviews or special giveaways to be offered as prizes for competitions tailored to your precise publication, please contact the author directly in the first instance by any of the following methods:

Website: http://www.colingalbraith.co.uk

e-mail: madness@supanet.com

Telephone: 07786 157270

His popular daily Blog can be found at http://freedomfromthemundane.blogspot.com

"Hunting Jack" is available for preview and purchase at http://www.keepitcoming.net

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