While the aspiring Apatows and Reitmans of the world have YouTube, and the blogosphere is often used as platform for self proclaimed “celebrity experts” to comment on everything from Lindsay’s latest DUI to Mischa’s cellulite, there is no place in the vast forest of the internet for the fledgling fiction writer to tell their version of Once Upon a Time. Well, there was no such place, until we created our ideal short storybook hero, SneakyUncle.

About a year and half ago, I casually contacted Estella Soto, a former USC classmate in Marianne Wiggins’ Advanced Fiction Workshop, to see if she would consider giving me some feedback on a short story I was writing. We traded fiction, notes, and emoticons until one day I asked her, “Are you in a writer’s group or workshop? Maybe we should start one…”

Mysneakyuncle.com was born because I was reading daily in The Hollywood Reporter about some movie or TV show picked up off someone’s blog or other online post. I knew that in order to jump start our literary careers, we needed to get our fiction and our names out in cyberspace. The short videos are Generation YouTube’s (link to you tube video) version of the book reading. Instead of just reading straight from our written words, we’ve created highly stylized short films/marketing promos to entice the average internet video junkie to actually sit down for a full read. Five samples of what goes on in our crazy, angsty, funny, sweet, sad, ironic, paranoid, confused twenty-something minds are now on our site.

My Sneaky Uncle can be found at: www.mysneakyuncle.com

Also check out their Huffington Post review written by Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: My Sneaky Uncle