HOW THE HAG LOOKS,
of course, is important. The novel is intensely visual. The text has to agree with and, in some obscure way, extend the images.The images must do the same with the text. How this can be accomplished is a curious problem. Text and imagery are processed in different parts of the brain. One's attention, therefore, shifts from side to side--literally, since words generally are handled in the left hemisphere and images in the right. Is this a distraction? One key I think is to look at children's books. Children read differently. It is a more global experience, and a more leisurely one. Illustrations are simplified, and text tends to be rhythmic and terse. A child can spend time over a sentence, often reading it aloud. An illustration can be explored: fingers can trace lines. Is this possible with an adult's book? HAG is deliberately rhythmic, and the illustrations are simplified black and white pictures. Try reading it yourself, as a child....

And the book itself is now available at Amazon.com's Create Space, for $12.95, and in an e-book format for the Kindle reader, at Amazon.

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