Be sure and buy two copies!
Apparently some publishers aren’t worried about losing money these days. Janet Evanovich and Stephanie Meyer’s blockbuster series are being translated into graphic novel form, and the print runs are staggeringly high, for the medium. But that’s good news for local publisher Dark Horse, and local artist Joelle Jones, who’s illustrating the Evanovich book.
Publishers are also getting more aggressive with their ebook pricing, maybe thanks in part to a recent spat with Amazon, maybe because of Apple, or maybe just as a last gasp offensive before they implode like the music industry.
In town, you can get your real live literary fix tonight at Holocene. Poor Claudia, a locally edited lit mag, is curating a night of music and poem/films. Special emphasis on the release of Zachary Schomberg’s Little Blind Thing, a DVD of said film/poems. Bonus: An appearance from Spudnik, Potato Champion’s new mobile fry cart.
I’ve never read anything by Econovanovich, but I can imagine the writing style smoothly transitioning to graphic novel form.
Oh wait: “The script was the structure, but it almost disappears,” she said. “All those words that we labored over are now in bubbles over characters’ heads. The book becomes the action and the pictures.”
Does that mean they cut out the descriptive paragraphs and stuff, and let the pictures do the talking (for the setting)? Please advise!
@ROM I assume so? I think it also means she has no idea how to write a comic book script. (She sounds kind of half-witted in that article.)
Yeah, she does. But she can’t be half-witted in real life. No way! She writes tons of novels, etc.
Speaking of half-witted: me! For some reason I was thinking she just dumped her novels onto the graphic novel team, and they GN’ized it while basically keeping the entire novel intact. But that doesn’t make much sense. So: She writes a bestselling novel, then scripts it, and then the illustrator (and an editor) graphicalizes it….? And she wants to do that for like 200 of her bestsellers, huh.
Maybe she sounds half-witted, but she looks wonderful in the picture.