I wanted to report about the Web site connected to a new book, 99 Ways to Tell a Story, by Matt Madden, but the site has MADDEN-ingly disappeared. Perhaps it gave away too much and would have hurt book sales?

Here's the (very cool) concept, as described in promo material for the book:

99 Ways to Tell a Story is a series of engrossing one-page comics that tell the same story 99 different ways. Inspired by Raymond Queneau's 1947 Exercises in Style, a mainstay of creative writing courses, Madden's project demonstrates the expansive range of possibilities available to all storytellers. Readers are taken on an enlightening tour-sometimes amusing, always surprising -through the world of the story. Writers and artists in every media will find Madden's collection especially useful, even revelatory. Here is a chance to see the full scope of opportunities available to the storyteller, each applied to a single scenario: varying points of view, visual and verbal parodies, formal reimaginings, and radical shuffling of the basic components of the story. Madden's amazing series of approaches will inspire storytellers to think through and around obstacles that might otherwise prevent them from getting good ideas onto the page. 99 Ways to Tell a Story provides a model that will spark productive conversations among all types of creative people: novelists, screenwriters, graphic designers, and cartoonists.