"h..how do you get into writing and publishing graphic novels professionally? 🥺👉👈"
i was sent this as a retrospring ask but i was writing so much that i didn't want to lose the text. so now it's a long post. anyway the way i got in started with an event that i don't think exists anymore (an agent pitching hashtag on twitter) but the traditional ways still exist and i know enough about them to sketch it out.
but before we talk about actually getting into the industry, do you have a complete outline written that tells potential agents and editors exactly what happens in your story? do you have a sample of 8-10 COMPLETE pages from (the start of) that story ready to go? do you have an idea of where in the market your work fits? middle grade, YA? sci-fi? romance? fantasy? nothing else after this point is worth reading or thinking about until you have those things prepared. go do them and come back.
