synopsys
I just spent two and a half hours writing a synopsis of Decrypting Rita. It is approximately 2200 words long, and probably needs editing.
The spur to do this was Oni Press opening up submissions next month. Will they bite? I dunno. They say they’re explicitly looking for femme/lgbtq creators and stories, which I emphatically am, but I’m not going to hold my breath that they’ll decide to go with a 400p full color book that uses spot gloss throughout the intereors from a creator who’s making all of a hundred bucks a page on Patreon. I am hoping to at least get a personalized rejection of the form “WOW, but sorry, nope”.
So once I get that pitch pack off to them, I’ll probably turn around and send it to all the other comics publishers with any kind of open submissions policy, and some graphic novel divisions of Real Publishers as well.
And then I go back to drawing. Because right now I have about 10-20 pages left to rough out; once I’ve done that, it’ll be possible to put together a WIP of the whole book. I’ve got to do the final art and text on them, including the super complicated two pages that are next in sequence - but the end is very, very near. I mean, then there’s the Kickstarter campaign for it, and printing and distributing the books, and all that stuff. But the real work is almost done. Four years and some months. Writing and drawing everything by myself.
I am not going to think about drawing comics for at least a month afterwards.
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