Epublishing

Hukilau provides partners with the means to distribute digital epub/ebook content as well as publishing titles under our own imprint Hukilau Books. Hukilau Books allows new and established publishers easy entry into the digital publication market through channels like iPad/iBook, Kindle, and many other ePublishing platforms. The first release on Hukilau Books will be a Hukilau founder. Other titles by Hukilau founders and writers we like will follow.

Our partners include:

The Nervous Breakdown, one of the web's most beloved publications devoted to literature and the arts, is now an indie publisher of fiction and nonfiction. Its new imprint, called TNB Books, will be producing print, e-book, transmedia, and audio books for lit fans worldwide starting this summer. Its e-book offerings will be targeted for the iPad, Kindle, and other major e-publishing platforms."

"We feel like this is a natural next step," says site founder Brad Listi, author of the best-selling novel Attention. Deficit. Disorder. "TNB is an outgrowth of book culture, and we're excited to be publishing on our own imprint. We're also excited to be partnering with Hukilau and about the possibilities offered by their new technologies."

Going forward, TNB plans to publish at least one title per month. All editions - print, e-book, audio - will be made available on the site itself, at the new TNB Bookstore. Print editions will also be available at all major online retailers, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and IndieBound. E-book editions will be available at all major e-book retailers, including Amazon, the iBookstore, and BN.com. And audio books will be available via iTunes and Audible.com.

Fittingly, TNB's first publication will be a collection of nonfiction by D.R. Haney, one of the site's most popular contributors. Haney, author of the underground classic Banned for Life -- a novel about punk rock, love, loss, and the trials of the artistic life -- will be publishing a collection titled Subversia on the TNB imprint. The book will feature Haney's original work from the site, along with three new pieces, never before published. The e-book edition, available on all major e-reader platforms, will include "How I Became Human," a documentary film about Haney directed by Los Angeles filmmaker and award-winning music photographer Timothy Murray.

A trailer for the film can be viewed right here:

We will also be publishing brilliant multimedia editions of works from The Original Falcon Press, who publishes alternative philosophy and esoterica from such authors as Christopher S. Hyatt, Israel Regardie, Antero Ali, Robert Anton Wilson, and Phil Hine.

More partnerships to be announced in the future.

Audio, Visual & Transmedia

Our audio/visual/transmedia division has already produced several audio projects and many visual (film, video, multimedia) and transmedia projects are in pre-production. Hukilau will help creators fund, produce and distribute audio/visual works on all major digital platforms like iTunes, eMusic, Amazon Digital, We also will be releasing titles under our own label.

One of our titles is a rediscovered master of the late philosopher/sci-fi writer Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson: The Lost Studio Session. First recorded in Chicago in 1994, this previously unreleased audio session with the renowned Robert Anton Wilson has been stored away for fifteen year...and almost lost entirely. Complete album currently available for digital download from iTunes here, from Amazon here, Napster here and eMusic here.

Alterati is a podcast station, started by Joseph Matheny and now hosting several podcasts of eclectic talk, music and radio style theater, including the LAFF's Los Angeles Times Interview Series, 2008 and 2009 Mark Time Gold Award winner 19 Nocturne Boulevard. We will be producing more audio theater, talk and audiobooks under this label.

Hectic Films: Hukilau is partnered with Hectic Films to produce and distribute independent film projects, starting with Home Free . We will be working with Hectic during post-production and providing distribution for Home Free and other Hectic films in the future.

Marketing and Tools

Hukilau provides our content creators with cutting edge tools and services that we have secured through strategic partnerships. Some of our partnerships include:

No Mimes Media produces compelling story-based experiences - whether wholly original to support a product or based on an existing or new entertainment property - that allows the audience to become fully engaged participants. Through interactive websites, filmed content, telephonic technologies and real-world events, No Mimes creates ground-breaking entertainment carefully designed to bring your message to disparate audience slices using cutting-edge technology and storytelling technique. With the No Mimes Transmedia approach, the story comes to you. No Mimes will be providing unique and affordable marketing/PR tools to help our creators spread the word about their projects.

Moviestorm is opening up the world of digital animation to a worldwide mass market of predominantly young amateurs with little or no experience. We are offering an affordable suite of market-leading products that are fun and easy to use, which inspire people to do more, and which combine to form a full-featured movie-making environment. We want a million kids to make a movie, purely for the fun of it! Moviestorm will be providing tools that allow the creation of interactive storyboards/trailers and narrative.

More partnerships to be announced in the future.

Chief Design Partner: May

Hukilau is partnered with May for design services and advice. May produces fresh, simple design solutions that inspire audiences, move products, and build brands. We guide companies through seasons of corporate growth and consumer interaction. Our skill sets include (but are not limited to): branding and corporate identity, online experiences, mobile applications and social media initiatives. Say "Hi" at http://hellomay.com.