Five days until my trip, and day two of ghastly headache. I didn’t get much work or much packing done as a result; I didn’t want to stay at the computer too long or move around too much. I’m thinking about what to pack, though, and I definitely will pack a journal. I’ll pack this one: My cousin Zee gave it to me for my birthday. It’s handmade and, I think, from the Philippines. I know for certain the handmade-with-recycled-material…
H.E. persists in suggesting I do my own children’s books. I’m not against the idea, but I need time to work on something publishable. In the meantime, I’ve started doing interior illustrations. The book is Toto’s Tale, by K.D. Hays and Meg Weidman, published by Zumaya Publications, for whom I’ve done covers for books like Unveiling the Enigma and Busting Loose. Toto’s Tale is essentially the story of The Wizard of Oz, as told from Toto’s point of view, and…
Today, I worked on a cover that I normally would have assigned to someone else, but that someone else already had plenty on her plate, and I wanted to do something a little different from my usual fare and take a break from my illustration work. So I took on Amanda Steiger’s urban fantasy, Unclaimed, where the author requests something like The Scent of Shadows—except the heroine should have short black hair. I had a hard time finding the stock…
It’s been ages since I’ve posted anything about my work, so it must seem I don’t work much at all. But, despite my lack of blogging and my endless playing on Farmville, I’m still doing my thing. I think last year I worked on 40-50 print covers, and goodness knows how many e-book covers I did — hundreds, I’m guessing. I’d go insane trying to pick a dozen of them to show here, so I’ll show only my first mass…
This is one of the last dozen illustrations I’ve done, and this is dated January of last year. I really should sketch more often, but between the cover work, the crochet, and the cat cuddling, I don’t know when I’d find the time. Plus I’m reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged right now, and it will take me 500 years to finish it unless I decide to read the thing without any comprehension. Hey, it worked in school, didn’t it? Share…