The literary byline
R. M. Hume
Old stories set down in a new form, plus long-form nonfiction about how people decide what they believe.
The work
Two lines run under this byline. The first is illustrated editions of public-domain fiction, adapted for readers who would never sit down with the original typography. The text is the author’s; the sequence, the panels, the pacing, and the colour are the edition’s, and the edition says which is which.
The second is long-form nonfiction about evidence and belief. How a community talks itself into certainty, what a courtroom does with a story, and what happens when the two meet. The subjects are often old cases, because the distance makes the mechanism easier to see.
An adaptation is a set of decisions. The honest thing is to show them.
R. M. Hume
Titles
Outside the Evidence
Someone is always asking you to believe something you can’t check. The book begins in Salem in 1692 and follows the same problem into the modern courtroom, asking how you decide who has earned your trust.
Paperback · $9.99Kindle edition arriving October 11.
Volume One: Five Stories, Three Ways
Five of Mark Twain’s stories, each told three ways. First as Twain wrote it, then in plain modern English, then drawn as a graphic novel.
A True Story
Mark Twain set down, almost word for word, the account of a woman who had been enslaved and separated from her children, and who found her son again after the war. Told in her own voice, it is the most serious story in the set. R. M. Hume’s illustrated edition arrives on Kindle October 11.
Each story also stands alone as an illustrated graphic-novel edition on Kindle.
