My project, The Eyes of Mara, which many of you know I am turning into a comic book and have been pushing the script around for two years, is well on it's way towards success.

Recently, a British Management firm, who develops, packages and brokers scripts for the studios (and have done so successfully with the major studios here and in the UK) has signed with me on to develop Mara further and get it to the powers that be.

Also, I just signed with a veteran personal manager who has successfully negotiated amicable and profitable terms with my new British friends.

I will be fairly busy doing a rewrite next month or so, after which, we all feel pretty good that it will get sold to one of the big boys, who are dying to get into a cross US/India market, and those who know Mara, knows it fits that bill nicely.

As I have always said... Perseverance and a good script are all you need. Never take no to heart or for an end all answer, find someone else who will say yes.

I have to say that the comic is coming out great. Issue one should be ready for the printer by end of summer.

Adapting a full length screenplay into a comic book has been fun but not without some hair pulling.

Harsho has been great in taking my words, and with references I provided, gives me some amazing art. Brendan's color work is also just too good for words to do justice.

For me though, the hard part is the cutting and pacing. Cutting dialog to fit a little text bubble, cutting scenes that are too slow or too long to convey in a page of graphics. It's tough, but well worth it.

After this experience I firmly believe that any screenwriter can benefit by reading comic books. They're not all superheroes, you can find just about any genre and it will show you examples of writing visually and leaner. All good things.