Showing posts with label picture book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label picture book. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Cat & Bunny in stores January 27th, 2015


It is finally happening! My first book, Cat & Bunny (Balzer+Bray, HarperCollins), will be in store in just a couple of weeks, on January 27th!

I am having a book launch party to celebrate the publication at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's on January 29th at 7pm, so please stop by and get your copy signed! 

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Publisher's Weekly review

I'm thrilled to share my first review! Cat & Bunny has received a star review in Publisher's Weekly.

It's an honor to have my book given a thoughtful summary and critique. Here's the link to read it for yourself!



Sunday, January 6, 2013

agent!

Good things are happening: I am now represented by the wonderful Steven Malk at Writers House! Please check out their website where you will find my portfolio: http://www.writershouseart.com. I'm honored to have the same agent as such talented artists as Carson Ellis, Scott Campbell, Marla Frazee, Jon Klassen, and Stephanie Graegin and many more! 

Above is a detail of an illustration I made for a promotional postcard which will be sent out to publishers. I drew a baby for every letter of the alphabet and gave them an animal costume to match their letter! It was so fun to create, although a few letters gave me a hard time...such as U, V, and X....

Unicorn is not an animal! To get ideas I looked online and found that many animal alphabets used unicorn, which I think is sort of cheating, personally. I chose 'Ulysses Butterfly' because it is an animal that actually exists and has a cool name, too. For V, I went with vulture -not the cutest thing ever but the alternatives were very obscure. And for X, I chose x-tetra fish, which I'm pretty pleased with. Since I am looking to do picture books it makes sense to draw little kids and babies, besides the fact that I love to draw them! Also, adding the animal element helps as many picture books have animal characters (which I also happen to love drawing!). Can't wait to see this printed on the postcard, I will post pictures when I get them.

All for now...