The Text Novels
Text Novels Intro: WRITTEN WORDS
The Test Novels are our alternative to paperback novels. Interior art will be kept to a minimum, giving writers out there that don’t have access to an artist, a chance to show what they can do. We would like every story to be relatively complete in one issue and if you’re going to submit multi-part stories, please submit all the parts and submit them as digital files in an e-mail, or on a CD or zip disk. This gives us the greatest amount of flexibility in type styling the text.
Stories must be typed, single-space, and not written by hand. Scrawl will not be accepted. All creators retain the rights to their work, save letting us have global online digital preview rights.
We’re looking for original stories of your characters and not those of other companies characters. We’re also not looking for derivative stories based on thin copies of characters already in print.
Our primary concern as publishers will be to see that no unnecessary gore, violence, or material devoid of taste is thrown at the public. We will be looking for originality, style, and interesting subject matter. The Text Novels will be open to any and all ages and basically any type of story... science fiction, comics, fantasy, westerns, etc., but we reserve the right to use or reject any story that we feel is not keeping with the standards of the line. So please, send only your best work, since only the best of all that we receive will see viewing as part of this endeavor!
This experimental endeavor is designed to see if fans online will read text without images. Kindle and Nook sales are outstripping printed books according to industry watchers so maybe comic fans are ready to graduate from that format to this. We’ll see.
Read well, have fun.
Aja ‘IceQueen’ Frost
Editor In Chief, SG Online
The Test Novels are our alternative to paperback novels. Interior art will be kept to a minimum, giving writers out there that don’t have access to an artist, a chance to show what they can do. We would like every story to be relatively complete in one issue and if you’re going to submit multi-part stories, please submit all the parts and submit them as digital files in an e-mail, or on a CD or zip disk. This gives us the greatest amount of flexibility in type styling the text.
Stories must be typed, single-space, and not written by hand. Scrawl will not be accepted. All creators retain the rights to their work, save letting us have global online digital preview rights.
We’re looking for original stories of your characters and not those of other companies characters. We’re also not looking for derivative stories based on thin copies of characters already in print.
Our primary concern as publishers will be to see that no unnecessary gore, violence, or material devoid of taste is thrown at the public. We will be looking for originality, style, and interesting subject matter. The Text Novels will be open to any and all ages and basically any type of story... science fiction, comics, fantasy, westerns, etc., but we reserve the right to use or reject any story that we feel is not keeping with the standards of the line. So please, send only your best work, since only the best of all that we receive will see viewing as part of this endeavor!
This experimental endeavor is designed to see if fans online will read text without images. Kindle and Nook sales are outstripping printed books according to industry watchers so maybe comic fans are ready to graduate from that format to this. We’ll see.
Read well, have fun.
Aja ‘IceQueen’ Frost
Editor In Chief, SG Online
TEXT NOVEL 1 Click strip cover to see story!
Rama-Vad © 2009 John S.D. Brown/SG - Completed!
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TEXT NOVEL 2 Click strip cover to see story!
DarkStone © 2014 Keith Royster/SG - Completed!
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TEXT NOVEL 3 Click strip cover to see story!
All Master © 2020 Darrell Goza/SG - Completed!
