How can you adapt your novel into a comic or graphic form? What are the different types? How does a creative career develop over the long term and when do you need to take a step back to consider how to move forward? Barry Nugent talks about all this and more. In the intro, Amazon changes ebook return policy [Society of Authors]; Spotify introduces audiobooks [Spotify; FindawayVoices; Publishing Perspectives]; Neal Stephenson on The Sword Guy podcast. Please complete my Creative Penn Survey 2022 here (by 7 Oct). You can also penn-courses.teachable.com/">get 30% off my courses here until the end of Sept with discount coupon: SUMMER22 This episode is sponsored by Publisher Rocket, which will help you get your book in front of more Amazon readers so you can spend less time marketing and more time writing. I use Publisher Rocket for researching book titles, categories, and keywords — for new books and for updating my backlist. Check it out at www.PublisherRocket.com Barry Nugent is the author of the supernatural adventure Unseen Shadows Transmedia Universe, as well as the middle-grade adventure Trail of the Cursed Cobras. He's also the co-host of the Geek Syndicate podcast. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes * Shifting from traditional to indie publishing in the early days * What is transmedia? * The production and sales of full-color comics * Different formats of graphic novels * Crowdsourcing to cover the expense of creating a graphic novel * The different artists that are needed for comics and graphic novels * In the intro, I mentioned AI comic creation [Twist Street; Campfire] You can find Barry Nugent at BarryNugent.