Greetings, As some of you know, I've been writing my book *Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling* for some time now, and am now ready to launch the next phase of the project. I am putting up chapters of the book online through MediaCommons Press at http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/complextelevision/ for open access and "peer-to-peer review" prior to submitting the manuscript to NYU Press. I invite you to provide feedback on the chapters as they are pre-published. A quick outline of the plan: the book's introduction and first chapter are posted now (as of Saturday evening, in conjunction with an SCMS workshop on digital publishing I Skyped in for from Germany). I plan on posting chapters every week or two over the next few months, serializing the release to allow time for people to read and comment (and me to finish writing). I hope that momentum will build and the conversation will flourish through this process, but this is obviously an experiment. I hope you can stop in and read the work in progress and offer feedback, and also help spread the word to others who might be interested in the topic. I would also love to hear any feedback about this unorthodox mode of publication and review. Thanks in advance for your participation! Best, -Jason --- Jason Mittell, Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture Chair of Film & Media Culture Department Middlebury College 208 Axinn Center at Starr Library Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-3435 / fax: (802) 443-2805 Blog: http://go.middlebury.edu/justtv My current book project *Complex TV* is online at http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/complextelevision/ *On Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year at:* Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Lichtenberg-Kolleg Geismar Landstraße 11 37083 Göttingen Germany +49 551 39-10750 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org