I’m tempted to create a graphic novel version of Time Crystal and publish it here, at least the first chapter, to see if I can get more readers.
At present (16 April 2008) this web site gets most of its readers from the history of the universe web site. In the past 7 days it received an average of 14 visitors a day who viewed on average 1.5 pages each.
I produced a graphic version of the novel in 2007, but it rapidly got out of date as the story was re-written.
I wonder how long it would take to produce some more images? I’ll spend an hour on it.
This is what I produced after an hour’s work.
The long fragments of blue crystal were all moving and shaking. Yawning gaps opened between them, then slammed closed with thuds that rang like the beating of hammers. The crystal on which Sam Fitzpatrick lay rose like a bucking bronco and he was airborne. A million constellations of pink planets orbited overhead. A distant pink ocean swam beneath him as he hurtled across the cave towards one wall. Oh God, he thought, this is going to hurt.
Not sure whether it’s worth an hour, for each paragraph, and whether it would make anyone read it.
Got stuck producing the image of Michael bending for the second paragraph, so gave up.
I decide to put that as the front page as a trial.
Also added this and a picture of Michael into Chapter 1.
