It just sucks, because it's like... I have this story about a modern, diverse take on "british magic boarding school", with a unique magic system, a hella merchandisable and cosplayable uniform design, frankly WAY BETTER PUN NAMES than Rowling ever came up with... and I've just hit a wall with it.
It's so frustrating having a pitch ready for a children's comic, because if it was any other concept I had developed to this point and people kept ghosting me, I'd do what I always do and just make the thing and sell it myself, but kids content is different...
But I can't just make it and sell it, because it can't be a webcomic (COPPA regulations and now a social media ban for under 16s), and to justify the cost of printing and distribution and advertising, I'd need to sell thousands of copies of a graphic novel by a relative unknown. Not easy!
Like you really need to have a publisher who has links with distributors, libraries, schools, or be connected to be able to go to parents directly, since most kids don't buy books; their parents do, and they buy them from "approved" places.
So I'm stuck with this pitch, and I know it's good! It was so good it got into the top ten of the Puffin Graphic Novel contest! And people are like, "have you tried emailing an agent?" And I have, and they're all ghosting me! Even Puffin ghosted me after saying they'd give feedback!
