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Children Chatting Podcast: Discussion between Chad Sell and the Children Chatting Kids
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SEBASTIEN: Hello everyone! You’re listening to the Children Chatting With Authors Podcast. Today we're here with special guest Chad Sell author of the well-revered graphic novel the Cardboard Kingdom.
KASSI: Hi, my name is Kassi. Is the Cardboard Kingdom ever going to become a TV show?
CHAD SELL: I think that would be super cool, but there aren't any, um, any plans right now of it being made.
KASSI: Why not?
CHAD SELL: Um, that's sort of beyond, and, most authors control. It takes like a movie studio or a TV studio to make that happen. Yeah, I, I wish I could animate something by myself, but I can't make a cartoon all by myself. Yeah, no problem.
SEBASTIEN: Hello my name is Sebastien.
CHAD SELL: Hi good meet you.
SEBASTIEN: Are you going to make a sequel to the Cardboard Kingdom?
CHAD SELL: Um we are working on it, but it's gonna be a little while. It took us three years to make book one, so it might take as long to make book two. So…
SEBASTIEN: Will it have the same characters?
CHAD SELL: Um yeah. We're planning on doing the same group of characters and same authors, yeah.
SEBASTIEN: Thank you.
CHAD SELL: Yeah, of course! Thanks for reading the book.
EVA: Hello my name is Eva. Why did you make your story a comic book?
CHAD SELL: Yeah. What I like about comics, is that anyone can just draw on a piece of paper. Um, you can tell a lot of a cool story and share it with people without huge resources without a film budget, without a CGI team, you know, but to get like a mainstream publisher to publish a book-length project, um, it you know it does take a few years, and, you know, luckily I had a whole team of collaborators to work with, which made the whole process a lot less lonely. Because, you know, during…there are there so many periods of uncertainty when you're waiting for the next big step to happen in the process, and having a team behind you like where you're all able to like share your insights and encouragement was so helpful and such a booster throughout it all.
EVA: How many other writers were there?
CHAD SELL: Yeah. It was a total of ten other writers. Yeah.
Thanks so much! Well, I'm glad you have a book club for like-minded kids to get together and talk about stuff they like that's really great!
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MILES: Thanks for listening to the Children Chatting With Authors Podcast.
DISCLAIMER: This is NOT a certified or verbatim transcript, but rather represents only the context of the class or meeting, subject to the inherent limitations of real-time captioning. The primary focus of real-time captioning is general communication access and as such this document is not suitable, acceptable, nor is it intended for use in any type of legal proceeding.