Book Illustration Cycle Embarking on the unknown journey as a Children’s Author of my children’s series “The Adventures of Jessie and Rocky Rockstar” has been a fascinating process, especially the book illustration cycle. These books are about the coolest little puppy in the world “Rocky Rockstar”. He’s a rescue puppy we got for our beautiful daughter Jessie. Since he became part of our family, life has been incredible. He’s a crazy, loveable cross between a Foxy, Staffy and Cattle Dog that looks like a Tiger. Painting this picture of Rocky Rockstar’s characteristics has been an important aspect of the book illustration cycle. The first step in this book illustration cycle was … [Read more...] about Book Illustration Cycle
Sunday Morning
Shaking like a bag of nerves... is probably an accurate way to describe how I was feeling on that cold wet Sunday morning, when I called publisher Ocean Reeve to read my children’s manuscript for the first time, over the telephone.It took me by surprise how quick he replied to my email that Sunday morning when I introduced myself and my first children’s book title “Rescued” in the series The Adventures Of Jessie and Rocky Rockstar. Just call me and we can have a chat.... he suggested, so I did. I figured there was nothing else to do on a cold wet Sunday morning than to stay snuggled up in bed and talk about my book I had just written.How many words is it? He asked “Only 900” I … [Read more...] about Sunday Morning
