Salina Christmas

A reader suggested that my books would make an amazing film or TV series. “You’ll have catalysed an entire industry,” he said. That took me by surprise.

A reader kindly reviewed my books and said they should be adapted into films. He said The Constant Companion Tales would make an amazing film or TV series. “You’ll have catalysed an entire industry,” he said.

When I was writing the books, I was thinking of comic or graphic novel adaptations. I even took a course in comic storyboarding whilst I was in London. The UK is full of all these talented comic artists and editors whom I thought could be collaborators. I met some of them at MCM Comic Con. But to be told that The Keeper Of My Kin and A Request For Betrayal could be adapted as films or TV series? I’m flattered and humbled that some individuals can see beyond what I’d imagine.

This feedback means a lot to me also because the reader is from the Commonwealth. The stories are framed around the themes of friendship and loyalty between people who get together over the strangest and saddest of circumstances. If a production company has a big check to write for a large-scale screen adaptation spanning cultures and geographical boundaries, I’m all ears.

The reader also mentions in his review that the exposition can get repetitive as you read the collection of tales as a book. This is correct. The tales, still being written as we speak, are published as an e-book series, each a short story within the tales (my point of reference being comic book series). The paperbacks consolidated the collection of short stories. But I hope (and was also informed) that this also means the print books are efficiently paced to keep the reader’s interest sustained until the end. That, I am so glad to hear. I don’t write to win awards but to entertain and delight.

So if anyone here is interested in adapting these novels into feature-length or serialised book-to-screen adaptations, give me a shout. I’m a big fan of anime and animation, so I wouldn’t mind that, too. I love Castlevania and Basilisk: The Kōga Ninja Scrolls (バジリスク〜甲賀忍法帖〜) because of the strong storyline and characterisation. That also serves as an expectation management to those curious about The Constant Companion Tales: there’s no wrong or right in the characters and the course of actions they take in the books. Everyone has that potential to be a saviour… or a monster. Perhaps an adaptation can build further on this and help flesh out what I humbly imagined as penny dreadfuls.