Comments | harliqwynn: An Animated Promo for a Book? How Novel!

harliqwynn

An Animated Promo for a Book? How Novel!

Mar 19, 2007 14:01

Greg has been working on the concept of Elandera for well over 5 years. This summer, the first novel, Elandera: The Coming Darkness, will be published (he's going the self-publishing route ( Read more... )

Comments 8

hammersquirrel March 19 2007, 20:50:02 UTC

I want the book, the movie, the soundtrack AND the t-shirt AND the video-game AND the action figures...

Will you also have collectible glasses in the style of the old Empire Strikes Back glasses you used to get from Burger King so many years ago?

ME

a_seraph March 19 2007, 23:20:29 UTC

They're pokemon? o_o

harliqwynn March 19 2007, 23:47:44 UTC

He admits that they are inspired by Pokemon, but these guys actually talk and are responsible for their own powers and all that jazz. If you take a look through the characters on the website, you can almost tell which characters are the older ones and which ones are the more recent, grown up creations.
His story lines about them, in the currently written novel, and in the novels he has outlines for, are absolutely nothing like any Pokemon storylines.

Does that answer your question suitably? Heheh. I should have known you'd question them ;)

a_seraph March 20 2007, 16:00:46 UTC

I question everything. My teachers used to hit me a lot. >_>

It just struck me as odd - they're for children, right?

harliqwynn March 20 2007, 16:49:26 UTC

It kind of has that wide appeal thing going on. Yes, good for kids, but appealing to adults too.
I mean, Pokemon and Harry Potter were created for 'kids' but there are many many adults who are fans as well.

_slytherin_girl March 20 2007, 08:40:45 UTC

The video and story outline/plot summary are very anime/videogame-ish, which I actually thinks is good. (Let's see how many more / I can use in a sentence, yeesh.) Anyhoo, even if the book doesn't take off (though I know many people that would read it), it could very easily be pitched to a video game company and as sad as it may be, a lot more people play video games than read these days.

harliqwynn March 20 2007, 16:50:55 UTC

He's already considered the video game angle. Actually, he's created a fighting game using the characters. He's got a bit of tweaking to do on it, then it's going up onto the website as well.
He's put a lot of time and work into this. I'm really proud of him.

ladykethryveris March 21 2007, 12:31:41 UTC

"How novel"? You're killing me! Does Greg know you've associated this pun with his work? He's gonna be so fussy!