An Opportunity for Children's Writers

I was interested to see the following item on the excellent Writelink website...

New media development company Sevenspiral Limited is seeking fresh and quirky children's stories, including those suitable for early teens, for development into graphic novels. We are creating a series of 'mobisode' comics for mobile phones, for broadcast partners across Europe. We will be able to storyboard and illustrate, plus add music to, your original work. We are looking for material across all genres, particularly work which could have a strong character, and those with a strong potential for soundtrack.

Stories selected to be used will receive a flat fee when sold onto a broadcaster, but we cannot pay up front fees for new work before receiving.

If interested, please contact Will Pearson, Creative Director of Sevenspiral Limited, for more information, using the contacts page of our website http://www.sevenspiral.co.uk .

You can read more about Sevenspiral on their website, although I couldn't find any more in the way of guidelines for writers. I guess if you're interested, the thing to do is e-mail Will Pearson for more information.

Incidentally, the project reminds me a bit of the ultimately unsuccessful Kwickee mobile phone publishing service I was involved with a couple of years ago. They also planned to offer fiction (and non-fiction) to people's mobile (cell) phones, but were never able to find enough customers. Possibly now the market is ready for this new initiative. In any event, I am sure they are doing the right thing by targeting young people, as they are the heaviest users of mobile phones.