I’ve been writing stories since 2000. I started Hunting the Rememberer: Chimera Anamnesis in June 2007, and I more or less completed it in 2022 with some finality. Since then, I’ve shoved it off in the direction of several publishers with no luck. Each publisher usually asks for a few weeks or a few months to review the piece before you can submit elsewhere. Thankfully, the rejections weren’t too harsh. But I am still hopeful. A friend said this week they can help me publish my novel with a publisher I’d been eyeing five years ago. I’ve polished my manuscript and query letter one more time. But regardless of the status of my novel, comics seems to be moving faster. It’s funny.
Years back, in college, I argued against short form content. Short stories, sold to anthologies or published in magazines, were cute and all but lacking so much potential that a novel could deliver. Now I am back to short form – comics. But this isn’t just a comic script I’m brewing but a graphic novel. 28 issues/chapters lined up from the start. Each issue 22 pages? That would be over 600 pages of graphic novel when complete, not counting covers and other content. 🙂 Epic storytelling inspires me the most.
Again, I am hopeful. And for some reason, I feel the comics will be easier to publish than a novel. We’ll see, I suppose. 🙂