Monday, January 19, 2009

WOULD YOU LIKE TO GIVE PICTURES TO YOUR NOVEL?

Yes,it would be a fatastic idea and it could be the first of its kind ever implemented in a noval;provided of course the publisher,editor or others agree that this idea of picturization in a novel will be a value added commercial concept for the publisher or the author,whoever funds the cost to print the novel.

How will these pictures be depicted in a novel?Well, the picturization of a novel will be conditioned,reserved and limited for only such novels where it is necessary that such pictures will add value to the reading public and make them enjoy the novel.I feel,spy novels having adventure as its theme will be favourites for picturization..........e.g.Superman,Batman,Spiderman,Lone Ranger on a horseback.Then novels on wars themes will be ideal to print pictures,where you can see bombers dropping bombs on enemy territories or a ship be hit by an underwater missile sinking in the occean;all these scenes will be very exciting to see in colours.

Its a very tricky situation and one must not get caught in a catch22 situation.The author should be the first person to decide picturization of a novel to be implemented or not,followed by the editor and the publisher.However, it is worth mentioning here that if the publisher is given this right,then the novel will not be a success commercially.How many pictures could be in a novel will depend entirely on the writer himself,because he knows best where to put the pictures to have a maximum blast on the readers!Finally, there is no guarantee,whether a picturization of a novel will be a benchmark for success.However, going by the thumb rule scale of 1 to 10,I feel the picturization score could be in the range of 7/10.

That gives me another fantastic idea for the publisher! What's that?
Well,to produce a picture version of a written novel,just print it like a whole comic book.So, the publisher will have 2 books to publish.........one,a written novel in a digital format and two picture version of a digital written novel.Would that be not exciting?Both versions of the books could be awarded copyrights to the author only.So, as far as the sale of the novel is concerned,I think the readers would like to own both! So much the better for the publisher.Children will love the picture versiion and adults the both versions.

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