ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CD Miller is a fantasy and horror author. Dark Heights is his first published novel, now available from Serial Box.
CD Miller
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what you need to know about dark heights
Dark Heights started out as an experiment in defeating procrastination and perfectionism, a serial novel that would be published regularly online no matter what shape it was in. I wanted to work on something that would explore current issues and get into the personal lives of the characters with some intensity. And I wanted the story to be able to turn, in sudden and unexpected ways, towards a kind of vivid and visceral modern fantasy/horror, with the sense that anything can happen.
Very early in the process my brother, Chris Miller, an accomplished composer and musician, came on board to create music for the website. As we began to explore both the fiction and the music, we realized that we wanted to collaborate and produce the content together. As a writer, I came to rely on Chris's evocation of the emotions and atmosphere of the world of Dark Heights. We create every chapter together. Sometimes Chris will write the music based on our conversations about the fiction and I'll use it to work on what I'm writing. Sometimes I give him a finished chapter and he writes and records the music. Quite often we've shared drafts and notions of what we're doing and the music and the writing changes as our work takes shape.
Once you read a few chapters you'll realize that Chris's music doesn't operate like a typical movie soundtrack. It doesn't score the prominent moments like signposts telling you what to think and feel. Instead he opens the chapters up from the inside, building a complementary narrative in music that reflects what the fiction is doing, in particular what the characters are thinking, feeling, and what they go through in the story.
Dark Heights is the fiction and the music, together. We've searched very hard to see if anyone else is doing anything this strange. Doesn't look like it.
Fiction+music.
In late 2018 we reached an agreement with Serial Box, and they are now the exclusive publishers of Dark Heights. You will only find Part One in their app or on their site. Part of what they do is the production of an audiobook, which is of the highest quality imaginable, narrated by Dion Graham, Julia Whelan, and Neil Hellegers. It is amazing to listen to and you don't want to miss it.
Chris and I will continue to develop the story of Dark Heights here, on our original site, where you can read all the new content for free. Part Two has begun.
If you'd like email updates and access to more of our content, please subscribe to our email newsletter at The Miller Brothers on Substack.
We hope you fall in love with Dark Heights. No really. Feel free to become intense, cultlike fans who've lost touch with reality. Dress up like the characters. Comb through the text for clues (in fact there are many hidden connections). You have our permission to be over the top about it. Lord knows we are.
CD Miller
Very early in the process my brother, Chris Miller, an accomplished composer and musician, came on board to create music for the website. As we began to explore both the fiction and the music, we realized that we wanted to collaborate and produce the content together. As a writer, I came to rely on Chris's evocation of the emotions and atmosphere of the world of Dark Heights. We create every chapter together. Sometimes Chris will write the music based on our conversations about the fiction and I'll use it to work on what I'm writing. Sometimes I give him a finished chapter and he writes and records the music. Quite often we've shared drafts and notions of what we're doing and the music and the writing changes as our work takes shape.
Once you read a few chapters you'll realize that Chris's music doesn't operate like a typical movie soundtrack. It doesn't score the prominent moments like signposts telling you what to think and feel. Instead he opens the chapters up from the inside, building a complementary narrative in music that reflects what the fiction is doing, in particular what the characters are thinking, feeling, and what they go through in the story.
Dark Heights is the fiction and the music, together. We've searched very hard to see if anyone else is doing anything this strange. Doesn't look like it.
Fiction+music.
In late 2018 we reached an agreement with Serial Box, and they are now the exclusive publishers of Dark Heights. You will only find Part One in their app or on their site. Part of what they do is the production of an audiobook, which is of the highest quality imaginable, narrated by Dion Graham, Julia Whelan, and Neil Hellegers. It is amazing to listen to and you don't want to miss it.
Chris and I will continue to develop the story of Dark Heights here, on our original site, where you can read all the new content for free. Part Two has begun.
If you'd like email updates and access to more of our content, please subscribe to our email newsletter at The Miller Brothers on Substack.
We hope you fall in love with Dark Heights. No really. Feel free to become intense, cultlike fans who've lost touch with reality. Dress up like the characters. Comb through the text for clues (in fact there are many hidden connections). You have our permission to be over the top about it. Lord knows we are.
CD Miller