Creating graphic novels - Sarah Beach

Creating Graphic Novels is a step-by-step guide to creating a graphic novel from your story idea. It shows you how to assemble a team, get the book in print and in front of readers, and leads you through the necessary creative and business steps. - - All types of writers are adapting their stories as graphic novels as a way of increasing their audience reach. Creating Graphic Novels: Adapting Stories for a Multimillion Dollar Industry provides information on the special needs of a graphic novel script, how to find your art team, and your publishing options. It also shows ways a creator can plug into the audience of comic book and graphic novel readers. The relaxed, conversational presentation will help you think graphically for the writing and pragmatically for the business concerns. - -
A graphic novel version of a screenplay, novel, or short story can help increase a writer's audience. - -
This book explains the nature of the graphic novel and comics business and how to interact with the comics convention circuit and build the writer's audience. - -
Included are listings for where to find artists, comics news and reviews websites, the convention circuit, as well as publishers. - -
The author has worked in the film and television industry as well as written and - edited some independent comic books. -