If you’ve been contacted by a
Leader of The Pack, or worked
with (or submitted to) any of
us in the past, we welcome
your query letter about the
project (or projects) you
think might be right for us.
If you’re a friend of a friend,
we’d be happy to talk to you,
too.
We’d like you to begin with a query
letter or e-mail, then
be prepared to follow that up with a
broad-strokes pitch
of your project that doesn’t exceed
two pages in length.
You don’t need to have an artist
attached to your project,
but if you know somebody you’d like
us to consider, please
include links or low-resolution jpgs of
his or her samples.
PLEASE NOTE: by
submitting materials via electronic or
physical means to The Pack, the sender
releases The Pack
from all liability for claims of copyright
and trademark
infringement. Our experiences have shown
that similar story ideas
often occur, and simultaneous submissions
can feature the same plot twist.
Now let’s talk about what
we’re looking for, and hold onto your seats: we want to
see submissions that make commercial sense for the Trade, (which is
the publishing industry term for the traditional bookstore
distribution market). To be clear, we’re not developing
material or interested in seeing material that would only make sense
for the Direct Market; there are plenty of publishers out there
who are playing in that particular section of the sequential
art sandbox.
Since we are most interested in projects
we think we can set up with publishers, this means they will
need to be concept-driven, as well as execution-driven.
(Translation: they need to be good, commercial ideas that will
be well written and drawn). Content-wise, we’re looking
for teen-oriented Original English Language (OEL) manga,
Original Graphic Novels (OGNs), and Graphic Nonfiction. If
you’ve had a successfully published book of prose that
you’d like to adapt or continue as sequential art,
we’d be happy to discuss that, too.
Because we’re looking at the Trade,
superheroes probably don’t make a lot of
sense…unless you’re effectively undercutting or
expanding the genre (and doing it so well that we can’t
say no).
If you’re looking for assignment
work as a writer or an artist on one of our in-house
development projects, we’d be happy to chat with you
about that, too.
Please email your query to me, Lee
Nordling, at: lee@the-pack.biz.
Thanks for considering The Pack.
Sincerely,
Lee Nordling
President
The Pack
