Chad Halcom
Sneak Peek: a new Children's Book!9/4/2021 You've heard the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. I say it's actually worth 4,635. That's my estimate based on the production time and digital memory needed to store a typical bitmap black/white drawing or PNG file. My next project is going to be a children's book, and even though the text of it is less than 600 words long, it should probably take about as long with the illustrations as writing a YA or fiction novel of, say, 74,000 words. Hence the estimate in words per picture. "Macron the Philistine" is my daughter's favorite of about a dozen stories I made up to tell her at bedtime, when she was small. All of them were terrible, and in time I think that became part of their charm. This one obviously takes place in Paris, and involves a disgruntled French blue-collar worker and a food fight. Colors will come later (I think). Long-term, I plan to package up several more of these tales into a series: Daddy's Disappointing Bedtime Stories. That's what I called them with my girl, and they all have kind of a fractured fairy tale feel. The name for the protagonist, Macron, came to me back in 2015 before Emmanuel Macron ran for the French presidency, so I'm hoping it isn't too politically charged now. I wouldn't have the heart to tell my girl I had to change it.
Look for this one in late fall. Afterward I'll get back to my usual hard action and speculative fiction novels, promise. Much more to come, but enjoy this sneak peek!
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