I have been preparing the entire collection for an assortment of submissions, which need to occur. One of the realities is that all the material needs to be included in one refined package. For certain submissions, I cannot present portions, it must be complete. That in itself poses a difficulty.
The first story is composed of a collection of seven books, which are represented in the e-Storybook "Gnomes in a Gnutshell". You can see the packaging of that product line below in a previous post.
But now that I discovered that the e-book must be filed along with the published edition of the hard-copy, at the same time, I find I'm faced with a dilemma. Once the material is filed, it all becomes public, which means that the classified material is accessible and revealed to the public.
I have been very careful not to reveal the Core Creative Materials to anyone other than our Producing Partners, which includes investors, contributors, and service vendors. Now that this first story from "The Gnomic Tales" is fully developed, it's time to begin releasing it. The first book is going out to Booksellers.
Well, the e-Storybook contains the entire seven book series. It has been my plan to release the books over a span of time (evenly spaced out) because we are still working on the art needed for some of the books and I need capital influx to pay my artists to come in and finish the work. It's going to cost me $90k to finish the work. (in case you want to invest).
Thinking about the e-Storybook, I realized (actually some time ago) that it needs to be accessible across all devises. That includes one's television, hence, HDTV. The e-Storybook is intended as a multi-media product, where the illustrations can come alive with gifs and/or short films. But I also intend to install the music from the stage show, so that the e-Storybook is the forum for a complete presentation of the entire product line (in terms of media product).
So I've redesigned the e-book for the HDTV aspect ratio. It looks great and it utilizes the e-book layout that has already been produced in the book format. So I'm very happy about that. I may submit both formats.
More later. AG
