Look, it's Jim Butcher, and he's signing my graphic novel.
Photo by moi.
Tonight I went to a Jim Butcher book signing and Q&A at Murder by the Book in Houston. Butcher's graphic adaptation of his Dresden Files series have made it onto the YALSA Great Graphic Novel list for 2010. It was a fun night, and he mentioned how much harder the graphic novel had been than he expected it to be. To paraphrase him 'They say a picture's worth a thousand words, and now you have to come up with 15 words to go with six pictures. Except you're the guy who originally came up with the six thousand words that got made into the six pictures.' I thought that was a clever way of looking at it, turning your book into a graphic novel is kind of like super editing for the author isn't it? It was a memorable night, and I made it out with my books by 9:51, which considering I was line #127 was awesome. I wonder when line number 250 will get to go home finally?
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