Better to live as a regular than being premium
by barneyjones123, Feb 27, 2015, 9:23:51 AM
Journals / Personal
Mood: Nervous
Extended title : Better to live as a regular member than being premium and the update of my graphic novel,its summary and the fate of whether its solicited to the publisher or not.
Well guys my days as a premium member is over but that doesn't matter if i were successful and if i accomplish my dreams maybe i can make another deviantart account and give it premium membership but for now i'll stick around just to be a regular member since well even when i was premium nothing changes its all the same .
And its time i have to say something about my graphic novel as i like it call it a update and its bad news my previous artist well due to her day job, professional illustration work, personal projects, developing web comic, and also personal problems recently that she probably won't work on the graphic novel project well at least on the bright side i finish writing the script last year before Christmas and finally got the artist almost this month her name is Jess Sims a.k.a Brushbell :iconbrushbell: i chose her because her artwork is good and before she would start the illustration there is a problem when i told her i would submit my graphic novel to companies like scholastic or First second books she told me my graphic novel is unsolicited and major publishing won't take unsolicited material and in order to make it solicited i have to either just sent it to the literary agent so that he/she can make it solicited and give it to publishers or sent it to the publishers immediately anyway if i send it to publishers anyway they will probably reject it and i can't show my rough drawings unless i show one of Jess sample art and the biggest problem is that i am just a first time author ,still a student for DAE (diploma in animation and engineering ) and GAD (games,animation and design diploma) and my drawings for my graphic novel are rough.
So maybe its time i have to say about graphic novel its called “Lightning Swap” similar like mental rift but is more closely to my original idea.
The summary of a graphic novel is about a 14 year old kid named Nick Lewis who does singing in his internet videos as a hobby, has a troublesome little sister and is a student in a final grade in middle school, He also has to deal with the trouble with his bullies and has a crush on a girl named Annie.
One day when he visits his friend Noah in the school lab he asks him to try out his invention The “Dimensional Contact Receiver” which can be used to hear different beings from different worlds as Nick tries it on a lightning strikes the machinery Nick wears and cause him to faint when he wakes up he saw a girl who looks like Noah but female and he himself realize he is not only into a alternate world where everyone’s genders are reversed but is trapped inside of body of a girl named Nicole Willis which is his female alternate counterpart.
Now Nick has to deal with being a girl in a different world especially dealing himself with female versions of his bullies and the male version of his crush.
It should be aimed for at Middle grade readers and teens since i want it to be family friendly ,the pages should black and white like most family friendly graphic novels and it consists of 4 chapters and 115 pages
Which brings me guys of what i am about to ask you one thing Do you think that its okay that i should sent my graphic novel script along with Jess's sample art based on my rough pages to publishers like scholastic or first second book so they will decide that if its solicited or not and let it be published so that it can be displayed on the shelf of the book store like i dreamed of?