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Are childrens books the new creative’s ‘novel’?

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Whimsical thought for Friday …are kids books the new version of working on a novel ?

I only ask because I know of four colleagues from the creative/communications industries who are all independently professing to be working on concepts/illustrations/stories for kids books and entertainment enterprises. Whatever happened to ‘working on the [great but unfinished] novel or screenplay ? Having had such a beast - working title Nashville Tartan -occupying sock drawer space for too many years, it ain’t easy to get the time to finish it. And for it to qualify as a novel, you’re talking about generating circa 200 pages of peerless prose. Question then; is the kids book a shorthand creative cop out , or simply evidence of an as yet unexploited, unsaturated market gap ?

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2 Responses to “Are childrens books the new creative’s ‘novel’?”

  1. Paul McKeon on July 4th, 2008 5:51 pm

    Maybe it looks easier (and better paid) to write Harry Potter than War and Peace :-)

  2. Gerry on July 7th, 2008 9:51 am

    I’m talking under 7’s books Paul; nothing as highbrow as Potter!! Agree, the lure of easy money prob explains it best. G

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