Day 14 - D is for domed city

[vilakins]

Another SF ABC for naarmamo today. I considered doing a certain dome from SF, but it's really more a huge domed building. This city is one I know well, but in the bright colours of a happy future.

D is for domed city



My NaArMaMo 2010 Gallery is here and my SF ABC Gallery is here.

Comments

[zoefruitcake]

that is a happy looking domed city

[vilakins]

Buildings should be more than grey or white!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

That's lovely. You should make postcards of it.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

People could trade and collect them!

I thought I might see if any publisher is interested, though I'd have to file the serial numbers off some and redo them all in a larger size and higher resolution.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

If you're serious about the publisher, I'd lock all the posts. Many publishers consider "available online" to mean "already published".

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'd only be showing some as examples; I'd be redoing them all anyway.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

mraltariel and I have just been looking through them all again. They're so delightful. I think a children's publisher would snap this up as a book (and fridge magnets, and cards, and, and...!).

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll give it a try. I have no idea how to go about contacting publishers though. Can one e-mail them, or does it have to be snail mail?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

This will be one of those 'it depends' answers: most publishers have specific submission instructions. Also, the bigger the publisher, the more likely you'll need to find an agent to represent you first - many large publishers won't deal with direct enquiries any longer. A small publisher might not have the market push, but you'll have more chance of getting some kind of response.

If there's a NZ equivalent of this (http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/shop/), that might be a good place to start, either finding agents who handle children's books, or publishers who will take submissions directly. (It's like pitching any project: the more research you do, the better your chances of success.)

Please keep on asking questions if you need to: I'll do my best to answer them.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think that's a wonderful idea.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I love the way you do your letters--following the shades of the city picture.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's fun working out what to do with the letters.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Oh that is great. Much nicer than the Blake's 7 one.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Most places would be! Thanks. :-)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Perfect weather every day! Yay!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I should have put rain outside the dome! Maybe I'll add some.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Oh, or Snow! Make it like an inside-out Snowglobe. :^)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's rain I hate, and I haven't done rain in the ABC. I'll have a go sometime.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

It'll be interesting to see how you depict it. The dome adds a level of complexity- do you show rain hitting it and bouncing off, or sliding over the curve in front or what?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I don't know. It might not work at all. Maybe I'll just make the sky greyer with one rain cloud.

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

This is great--I might even like to live in this one.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I can guarantee the water and food isn't drugged!

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

Good!

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Lovely! :)

I'm sure some JAFA's would like the city like that, cut off from everything else in NZ. :-p

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Less rain and wind (another tree came down here this weekend) would be very nice!

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

Lovely dome city! I love the way you drew and coloured the trees and the buildings.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The buildings looked as if they needed some trees to soften them.