Dragon Award-Winning Author Behind Bestselling The Ember War Saga Joins the Plotsy vBook™ Roster
AUSTIN, TX, UNITED STATES, August 18, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Plotsy, the company introducing the Plotsy vBook™ as a fourth distinct book format, today announced it has signed military science fiction author Richard Fox. The Ember War, the first volume in Fox's 34-book Ember War Saga, will be translated into a cinematic, episodic video experience true to the novel, page for page.
Plotsy has created a new category known as the Plotsy vBook™ that faithfully translates novels into episodic viewing experiences while preserving the complete story, characters, pacing, and creative vision of the original book. Plotsy is designed to reproduce the literary experience while ensuring audiences know and recognize the author. The Plotsy vBook™ joins print, eBook, and audiobook as a fourth distinct book format.
Richard Fox is a Nebula Award nominee and winner of the 2017 Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel. A West Point graduate, Fox served ten years on active duty in the U.S. Army, including two combat tours in Iraq. He brings a veteran’s perspective to his fiction, and a devoted readership that has followed The Ember War Saga across multiple volumes on Kindle Unlimited and Audible. The Ember War begins with an alien drone swarm—the Xaros—that annihilates every civilization it finds. And the Xaros are coming for Earth. When a young graduate student, Marc Ibarra, receives a warning in the middle of the night, humanity doesn't have long to prepare — and the clock is already running. Humanity’s only chance against the Xaros is the warship Breitenfeld, led by Captain Isaac Valdar. He and his crew must win a war no one is prepared for, against an enemy that has never known defeat. When the invaders arrive, the truth of what they're up against will change everything.
"For generations, authors have imagined the worlds, created the characters, and written the stories, but the author often disappears from the experience," said Michael Gorton, Founder & CEO of Plotsy. "The Ember War has an audience that already knows this book by heart. Our job isn't to reinvent it for them, it's to put Richard Fox's story on the screen exactly as he wrote it, so the author stays at the center of it."
"Readers of the Ember War Saga have spent years imagining pivotal scenes from The Ember War—the desperate space battles, the fight in the ghost city of Phoenix, the assault on the Crucible," said Richard Fox. “Plotsy isn't reinventing that. They're building it, scene by scene, the way it's already written on the page and they’re putting it on screens for everyone. And because I’m deeply involved in the production, the Ember War the audience experiences will be the Ember War that I wrote.”
The first episode of The Ember War Plotsy vBook™ will be available for streaming in the Plotsy App later this year. Fans can sign up for exclusive production updates at plotsy.tv. Authors interested in bringing their own work to the Plotsy vBook™ format can learn more at plotsy.tv/for-authors.
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Lynn McGinnis
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