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Site Launch!
January 10th, 2024
At last! I have finally made a personal website. And not just on a practice module, but for real.
Anyway, for those who don’t know me—hello! I am Amy Wu Donovan, and it has been my dream for the past 20 years to become a manga artist and publish my own original complete work. Due to how my hyperfixations work, the “original” part of that took much, much longer than I thought. More importantly, I needed to gain enough life experience so I could tell a story that had some kind of compelling conflict. And given how adverse I am to conflict of all forms in real life…yeah, that might be why it took so long.
I could have made a portfolio website, but the truth of the matter is that I got so into working on Children of Astra that I completed the first act of the story (at 112 pages) over the course of last year, and I barely worked on anything else besides that. So I’ve instead decided to make it a webcomic site showcasing my current progress.
As for what my plans are now?
Well, I intend to use this site to pitch the story to publishers and graphic novel agents, to see if it’s something any of them would be interested in picking up. I feel like given the polish and high quality of both the story and the art, this might have a chance. But if none of those attempts pan out, then I fully intend on finishing all 348 pages anyway and posting the rest of them here as I do so, culminating in printing the book on my own.
So that’s it! Wish me luck! And watch this space for updates as to how that endeavor turns out, and what I end up deciding to do after all.
One Year Later: Update
December 31st, 2024
Good news: I’ve managed to finish 227 pages so far!
Bad news: Haven’t had any success with literary agents so far, so traditional publishing will be extremely unlikely at this point. Regardless, I’ve decided to to proceed with the rest of the project anyway. I’ll at least try pitching the project to small press publishers directly once I do, and we’ll see if that pans out.
So my new years resolution, at the very least, is to finally finish this book! I plan to post the rest of the pages here, but not sure if it’ll happen in late 2025 or early 2026. We’ll see!