Release of the First Book in the Series

Keep watch on the primary blog; thegnomesofnewhope.blogspot.com and peruse the posts to discover the history and progress of the project:

"The Gnomes of New Hope; Zach and Zebby's Grand Adventure"

Here is the latest on the Illustrated Storybook:

Volume One consists of one book. There is a Preface, the Body, and an Appendix. There are a total of 120 pages, with the Body comprising 78 pages. The Preface expounds upon what the project is, some of the Ancillaries and describes the process of creating "The Gnomes of New Hope; Zach and Zebby's Grand Adventure"

The Body of the work is an Introduction to The Gnomes of New Hope, describing who they are, where they live, what they think, how they act, and some of the problems they face. This leads the way for "Zach and Zebby's Grand Adventure", which is presented in Volumes Two & Three. As it stands now, each of those two volumes is comprised of three books, although that may expand, depending on how the completion of the artwork turns out.

Volumes Two & Three are laid out, but the required artwork has not been completed. So, even though the space for the panels has been defined, that may change to give more room for the art.

Volume Two, Books Two & Three are complete and ready for pre-press. Book Four needs about 15 more panels. All told, the series, meaning "Zach and Zebby's Grand Adventure" still needs 345 more panels.

"The Gnomic Tales" are not fully written, only those portions needed for "Zach and Zebby's Grand Adventure" have been sketched out, although some of those tales have been embellished, but none of them have been illustrated.

So, Volume One, Book One, "An Introduction to The Gnomes of New Hope" is ready for release to the public, with the plan that income from Book One will pay for Book Two, of course while also recouping the expenses for Book One. Alternative funding plans exist, one of which is Licensing certain aspects of the project.

I'm always open to discussion via email: image.of.the.mind.studios@gmail

You can find additional information on the IMS Virtual Studio at; imagemindag.blogspot.com

AG

Book Sales of The Gnomes of New Hope; Zach and Zebby's Grand Adventure

The plan is to set this page up for sales of the Illustrated Storybook. Volume One of book collection is on the verge of being released, hopefully to be followed, without too much delay, by the remaining six books.

As it stands now, I have the first four books in the collection, with only a few illustrationd missing from Book Four.

Book Five needs quite a bit of illustrationd work to be done, while Books Six and Seven have a fair amount of artwork done. But all told, we still need 348 illustration panels to complete the collection. That sounds like a lot, but there are over 800 pages in the collection.

In addition to Zach and Zebby's Grand Adventure, there are also The Gnomic Tales, which is comprised of about five more stories. I may blend The Gnomic Tales into the Film version of the stories. As it stands now, only portions of those tales has been blended into the Collection, only enough to fill in the gaps. I assume that at some point those Gnomic Tales will be embellished, presuming that there is a demand to do so.

So, keep watch here, as I will set-up an order form where the books can be purchased via PayPal. I expect to sell the books individually at MSRP, but to also sell them wholesale to distributors and booksellers.

There are opportunities for persons who specialize in book sales, so if you may be interested, do contact me at;

Arthur Greisiger
image.of.the.mind.studios@gmail.com

Online purchase of Volume One

If you check The Gnomes of New Hope blog, my most recent post there will bring you up to date.

I will be building a page to purchase the published books. "Volume One, An Introduction to The Gnomes of New Hope" will be available shortly and I will be using this blog for sales.

Booksellers and individuals can both purchase books from here, once I set up the pricing schedule.

All the books are published by IMS Publishing, a division of Image of the Mind Studios. We will be selling quantities under 12 units for the MSRP of $20.

The wholesale pricing is available to booksellers, beginning at 12 units and going down in price as quantities go up until the price bottoms out, allowing for a full keystone at that point. The pricing schedule is not posted, but will be provided upon request.

Distribution is under discussion, so those terms may change. In any event, no product will be shipped from IMS until it is paid in full. The terms are at all times 50/50. No credit is extended, as those funds are required for other production activities.

If you want to lock in an agreement for direct sales of product, you should do so before a Distribution Agreement is in place, otherwise the wholesale cost will go up to accommodate distribution fees.

So those are a few notes regarding the release and distribution of the books, by way of direct sales from IMS Publishing. Other details will follow.

AG

e-Storybook

   Work on the final technical layout is continuing. I can't tell you how many revision have been required to finish refining this product. The numbering system is up to Rev 19-31.

   I will be moving forward to set up the operation of the e-book... again! The design elements which seemed to be finished, were found to have flaws, have now been corrected. So the file stucture and links need to now be rebuilt.

   Once this is completed, the Industry Review Package will be ready to distribute to investors and other business partners.

    The illustrations for the product are not complete and the volume of illustration panels required is currently 348 panels. That is a other of panels, which represent composites of many more pieces of artwork.

   With all this, the art department will be the focus of attention and that means that the animation department will be part of that attention.

   So, there's much to do and it all requires funding resources. If this is of interest to you, check out IMS Producing Partners.

AG

An update

It has not been very convenient to update my numerous blogs, but now with a recent link with an app on my phone it has become much easier to do
So I think I will try to keep these up to date.

IMS Publishing has advanced quite a bit since I started this blog. The books for The Gnomes are the primary publishing projects. Other project may follow, since I have at least 10 other projects that have built up over the years.

As you may discover, if you become a Vested Producing Partner, there are many projects which have reached a certain level and were put aside for lack of resources or the ability to advance. IMS Publishing is one aspect of Image of the Mind Studios the seems to have been waiting to happen. So things are moving forward in that regard.

I expect e will continue to grow, so long as I can gain the working capital to move forward and the right People to delegate responsibilities to. AG

Welcome

This is the beginning of IMS Publishing. Obviously nothing has happened here yet, but it will as I get closer to releasing The Gnomes of New Hope to the Public. I will also be setting up posts for each of the publishing projects which are sitting in the studio waiting to be done, and there are quite a few which got put on hold for various reasons.