hrj | Literary matchmaking

Having had a useful chat with my publisher about how their option clause does and does not apply to short fiction, I have some brainstorming to do about where to try "Hidebound" (current title of the concluding skin-singer story. My tentative plan is to see if I can sell it as a stand-alone then put out the collected stories myself in electronic-only format. Even better if I could find someone else who wanted to do the collection, but I doubt I have enough name-juice for that. But the online short fiction market is something that didn't really exist a few years ago and it seems likely that I could find someone who would be interested in the story itself.

And having dragged it out again, I really want to do something with "Hoywferch" (the first one of the fluffy little "Mabinogi with lesbians" pieces) but that one's going to be hard to place. Too much of a historic set-piece to fit into standard fiction pigeonholes. I had a thought that it would be really fun as a semi-graphic story: something more than illustrations but not a fully graphic-story format. Unfortunately I don't really know any artists working in that sort of format or even how one would go about looking for them. Oh well, if I were writing ordinary, easily-classifiable stuff, I wouldn't be me.

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I have a friend who writes the text for graphic novels. I hope its okay but I took the liberty of asking him for some tips for you.

Thank you!

I know lots of graphic artists, I'll ask around for you. (In fact I gave a shout on the #krita IRC channel on freenode just now, where many of them hang out)

Edited 2014-07-13 12:41 (UTC)

That's lovely! What would be perfect would be someone already interested in historic themes of the right era.

I really enjoyed the one skin-singer story I read a few years ago. If you do get around to putting out the collected stories, I want a copy.

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