{"id":2432,"date":"2007-07-08T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:56","slug":"pw-rocks-my-inbox-on-sunday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2432","title":{"rendered":"PW Rocks My Inbox on a Sunday Afternoon&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few interesting news links from Publishers Weekly arrived today via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scbwi.org\">SCBWI e-newsletter<\/a>. Firstly, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6454792.html\">interesting article profiles 3 new YA authors<\/a> with recent debut novels, including Elizabeth Zindel, the daughter of Paul Zindel&#8211;she is following in his footsteps with her first novel, Girl of the Moment, and is already working on a second.<\/p>\n<p>Also, some news about the ever-expanding graphic novel market, which is good news for aspiring graphic novelists (I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d quite put myself in that category&#8211;maybe I&#8217;d call myself a potential aspiring graphic novelist, depending on the project in question!). Anyway, Lerner&#8217;s Graphic Universe line of educational comics is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6452644.html.html\">expanding into the trade publishing market<\/a>, publishing their educational titles as trade paperbacks and expanding into interesting-sounding areas such as &#8220;Twisted Journeys, 112-page, full-color comics works of fiction in historical settings that allow the reader to &#8216;control the action&#8217; by picking among multiple outcomes for each story.&#8221; Graphic Universe&#8217;s Hercules and King Arthur were both <a href=\"http:\/\/dadtalk.typepad.com\/cybils\/2006\/11\/the_nominations_5.html\">Cybils graphic novel nominees<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Simon &#038; Schuster is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6450532.html\">adding graphic novels<\/a> throughout its children&#8217;s imprints, with a book called Chiggers from Cybils nominee Hope Larson as one of the debut titles in the program. I&#8217;ll be very interested to see how the comics medium develops as it becomes more mainstream with publishers. I&#8217;m happy, but I also hope that something intangible isn&#8217;t lost in the process&#8230;I guess that&#8217;s sort of a remnant of the &#8220;art for art&#8217;s sake&#8221; philosophy that I&#8217;ve retained from my fine art training, and though I don&#8217;t really have an issue with the idea of &#8220;selling out,&#8221; I do worry about commercialization. Hopefully it&#8217;ll just be a positive thing, with an increase in attention and funding resulting in growth in the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few interesting news links from Publishers Weekly arrived today via the SCBWI e-newsletter. Firstly, an interesting article profiles 3 new YA authors with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,60,59,15,10],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-book-news","tag-comix","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4175,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}