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GM Jordan's QV Universe Comics Being Pitched – Sony Leaks….

GM Jordan works as Group Editor for British graphic novel publishers Markosia, who both publish my Flying Friar and Royal Wedding comics.

Neither are mentioned in the Sony leaks that have been dumped online by Wikileaks. But this is how GM Jordan's agent is selling his QV Universe line of titles, writing to Michael Lynton,

We have recently taken on a new client that I know without hesitation would do very well at Sony, he is primarily a comic book editor but he is a very gifted fiction author.  His name is GM Jordan and he is based in the UK.

Companies like the BBC, Kindle Entertainment in the UK and DreamWorks and Fox are watching a project Jordan is currently undertaking.

The 'QV Universe' has been described as "Downton Abbey meets Doctor Who." and he is essentially creating a franchise of five core sets of characters set in the Victorian era. The pilot story for 'The Liberty' is already a graphic novel script and after getting great feedback from publishers Jordan started on the second book in that series straight away.

Each series of stories comes under a different imprint which consists of: 'The Liberty', 'Ryder', 'Five Against the World', 'Solo' and 'Cherry Vampyre', he has outlines for the pilots for all of the titles.   When Jordan sat down with us in London and ran through his idea for the 'QV Universe' we could see his ideas coming to life and the potential for film, television, animated series, toys, video games and merchandise.  'The Liberty' and 'Cherry Vampyre' have strong female lead characters, 'Ryder' and 'Solo' conform more to the standard action adventure genre whilst 'Five Against the World' is a great family entertainment.

Jordan belongs at Sony; his ideas make him a great all-rounder.

He started out working for magazines and newspapers, the first book he wrote was an explosion of action adventure however there was no way it could have been adapted as a motion picture (that did not stop Warner Brothers flying him to New York in the early 1990's to discuss the possibility.).  After meeting with TBS he wrote 'Hunter, Hunted' (HH) which became the first story which really showed he had cross media potential and the ability to create characters capable of carrying a franchise.  Turner handed the script to Allied Entertainments who shelved it, opting to produce 'Nostradamus' and 'Lawnmower Man 2' instead.

Jordan's next book, 'Swansong', was based on actual events and is an amazing love story.  Almost every woman that has read it has been bowled over by the story.  Five publishers turned it down, this was 4yrs before '50 Shades of Grey' and the publishing companies were certain there was no market for any book that had an element of fetish in it.  So Jordan released it as an e-book on the old Myebook.com platform.  In 3 months 'Swansong' achieved 158,000 downloads, to an audience primarily made up of women.  That is achieved without marketing, a publisher or publicity, sales that were driven by word of mouth recommendations.  Royalties from this book are currently given to a charity to aid in the fight against breast cancer.

Corvus will release a book of short stories in the next twelve months centred on another character he created, 'Raggedy Man'.  These short stories drawn you in and they have enchanted adults and children alike for the last eight years.  My own children are captivated by the stories Jordan seems to conjure out of thin air so easily, old fashioned morality tales with a modern twist.   When Jordan creates he seems to subconsciously write in such a way that ensures any cross media relationship would be very easy.

I spoke to another editor about 'HH' for instance and was told the style Jordan has adopted makes transition from book to graphic novel and then possible video game is fluid and easy; he also produces characters that are strong, especially female characters. Then she told me that when Ridley Scott read 'HH' his comments were "Die Hard meets Blade Runner" and the only reason it didn't go into production in the mid-1990's was the cost of CGi, something which wouldn't be a problem now.   If you are interested in Jordan's work then let me know and I will make the introductions.

Sadly no one seemed to get back to him. And none of those comics have yet been published. Maybe tehy'll be mroe interested then?

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