What's Next?

Existing Market

What I need to do next is get prints out in circulation and then pace myself accordingly so that I can release a sequel in a timely manner. Of my three interviewees suggested that I should focus on trying to sell rights next. I'm not a fan of that idea. So on to interviewee number two, who agrees with my idea that I should focus on timing out my sequels so that they aren't too close or too far apart. Interviewee three believes I should focus on marketing book one rather than moving on to the next just yet.

In terms of my plan in growing my future, I want to keep the sequels published in a reasonable and timely manner (because nobody likes waiting too much for something) and experimenting my storylines with other medias such as animation or cinema.

New Market

Since I'm in a literary genre, I could address a completely different media: cinema. Film versus literature, movies versus book, reading versus watching, words versus video. See, opposites! I think, since books get movie adaptations all the time, that it wouldn't be the craziest notion if I were to conjure a script manuscript and maybe get some filming or special effects animation done, or sell some rights to a studio who can. I spoke to an animation student who said it was more than possible and actually easier than coming up with a script from scratch if there's already something to work off of. I also spoke to a professional filmmaker friend who agreed that I would be great at overseeing a live-action rendition of my story and that my book is the perfect type for the big screen. Yay!

I learned that despite how hard this conversion process seemed to me, it's actually quite easy for an author. You just hire someone to oversee, and lean back and relax as the crew, screenplay writers, actors, etc etc etc do their work because you've already done your share by writing a whole book to begin with. I really didn't realize how mush crew delegation there is and how enormous the ensemble is to take the work off the author. This is an attractive market, and definitely a possible one.

Comments

  1. David SpreenNovember 19, 2017 at 9:06 PM

    Simoli,
    Learning that the crew has so much influence is interesting, but makes sense for the sanity of the author. Looking deeper into this market and expanding further could help your product reach a ton of other customers. This opportunity for a new market is huge and you're just tapping into it.

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