Lycan: Solomon’s Odyssey Updates 7/17/22
Hey Everyone! Hope you had a great week!
Quite a busy week!
My dog Yoshi got spayed this week, so she's recovering pretty well. I've been holed up with her in our family room since Wednesday. I am getting pretty stir crazy, but I had to move all my stuff up to that room from the studio. It may be a few days until the podcast episode comes out! Sorry for the delay on that.
Chapter 1
I had my first order online! The website seems to be working just fine!
I decided to begin calling comic shops. I looked up a few videos to help with cold calling comic shops to sell your indie book. I made a list of every comic shop in PA and NY. Upon calling every single shop in PA (there's about 81), less than half said they sell indie books. That was actually pretty much what I was guessing going in. I emailed each shop a free PDF of the book, though sadly, I have yet to hear back from a single shop. I'll follow up within a week.
One shop I did speak to mentioned they used to really try to sell indie books, but there wasn't much of a market for it. They specifically said indie books above $5. Even though the price might be fair for the # of pages, new readers would not want to take a chance on a $15 book from a creator they didn't know, when they could buy 3 batman, spiderman, or iron man books that they do know.
While I get that sentiment, it is a bit of a downer. Add to that, none of the shops that I do have the book in so far have sold any copies. I may end up deciding to avoid shops all together if that trend continues. Which is a bummer.
Chapter 2
With the main art being finished, that leaves the coloring and the lettering. I received colored pages 29-33. They look great! I already sent some more pages given to me by the colorist over to the letterer. The colorist is estimating that the book will be finished with coloring in August.
The letterer said he is still trying to figure out how to change up the logo to match the style of the next book. With the style of the logo, it is a little too busy to add much to it. I gave a suggestion of simplifying the sub-title (Solomon's Odyssey) in order to modify that to match the theme of the book. He said he would give that a shot and get back to me.
No other updates for that book or Chapter 3!
Thanks so much, take care, and I hope everyone has a great week!
