All Strings Attached

A VISUAL NARRATIVE All Strings Attached A poor farmer is hired to destroy a woman's political career. Every kindness offered to him turns out to be a hand on a string. This is the story told as a picture — its arc, its people, its weather. A NOVEL BYLeticia.k

All Strings Attached A VISUAL NARRATIVE A novel by Leticia.k STORY ARC · CHARACTERS · KEY SCENES · METAPHOR · MOOD & PACING This picture book is a visual companion to the novel All Strings Attached by Leticia.k. It retells the story through its emotional architecture rather than its plot: the shape of the fall, the people holding the threads, and the six frames that hold the whole book together. ALL STRINGS ATTACHED · LETICIA.K2

CONTENTS What is inside 01The premise Logline, want and need, the clock, the cost 402The cast Joey, Jane, Selene — three people, one knot 5 03The string you cannot see The central visual metaphor 804The emotional arc Five acts, one long fall 10 05Six frames that hold the book The key scenes, illustrated 1206Mood & pacing Colour script, rhythm, texture, temperature 18 07Four threads under the plot What the book is actually about 2108The last page Every string is a choice 23 ALL STRINGS ATTACHEDCONTENTS ALL STRINGS ATTACHED · LETICIA.K3

01 · THE PREMISE A favour is a loan "A single string that began with Barry and Shania had stretched thus far to land me a job at the mayor's office. There, I was certain, I'd find a whole fabric of interwoven strings." PROTAGONIST Joey — a gifted listener who reads people the way others read weather WANT Tuition money, and a life that stops being a daily emergency NEED To learn that being used and being loved can look identical from the inside ANTAGONIST Mayor James McLean — and the system of favours he operates CLOCK 42 days to the withdrawal deadline, 27 June COST One stabbing, one killing, one marriage destroyed, one pregnancy ALL STRINGS ATTACHEDTHE PREMISE ALL STRINGS ATTACHED · LETICIA.K4

02 · The cast — i Joey THE LISTENER Bullied through an elite boarding school on a stranger's charity, then orphaned of that charity by a plane crash. He sells cabbages at his grandmother's plot and can hear what people don't say. That gift is the only capital he has — and the reason he is chosen. Wants: out of poverty. Fears: that he is exactly as small as they said. THE NARRATOR 5

02 · The cast — ii Jane THE HAND ON THE STRING A dropout turned model who is also the best hacker in the room. She found Joey for the mayor, befriended his family to deliver him, then…