“CSI” creator Anthony Zuiker has signed a seven-figure deal with publishing company Dutton, Daily Variety reports. Zuiker will create a series of suspense-thriller “digital novels,” a multiplatform experience that incorporates book reading, a social networking site and video. Readers will be given codes to log on to the site after reading chapters where they can watch vignettes integral to the next batch of chapters. The site also can be used to interact with other fans and to share story ideas, with the best ones to be used in future titles.
—Christopher Perez