Apple Store author and model Isobella Jade plans iPhone app
24.05.2010
Autor: Nick Spence
Publikation: macworld.co.uk
Model and author is planning to produce her first iPhone app, encouraged by the success of her memoir Almost 5'4": Confessions of an Unconventional Model. Newly published in the UK, Almost 5'4 was uniquely written on the Macs at a New York Apple Store. "I wrote over 300 pages of my manuscript on a 17" iMac. I was totally without an Internet-connection," Jade tells Macworld. " I didn't have the ability to check my email so casually as I do now on my iPhone - and the Internet is a life line to anyone who is self made these days, so when I discovered the Apple store, I discovered a dream come true."
Part memoir, part inspirational guide, the book inspired Jade to write a graphic novel Model Life: The Journey of a Pint-Size Fashion Warrior. Model Life will form the basis of Jade's iPhone app, due later this year. "While writing Almost 5'4" I started imagining how some of the situations, encounters, and the highs and lows would look as a visual," Jade explains. "Also I noticed that graphic novels started becoming more and more talked about, not just for superheros but for humanistic stories. Also I noticed that there were not many graphic novels for girls, with a female heroine. I wanted to entwine the Internet-age into a female driven graphic novel."
Jade found Model Life illustrator Jazmin Ruotolo via a search online and her style proved a perfect fit for her storytelling. "For the style, she has a fashion illustration background and she really got the character that I was striving to create. After falling in love with the format of storytelling I am now aiming to turn Model Life into a series, soon Model Life will be available on the iPhone through a mobile publisher!" A full interview with Isobella Jade covering tips on modeling and writing your memoir in an Apple Store is available .
( is out now and published by The Friday Project/HarperCollins in the UK. is published by Soft Skull Press with illustrations by Jazmin Ruotolo. Read more about Isobella Jade at )
