Which illustration style do you like the most? Art preferences are subjective in most ways. You will like what you like for your own reasons. I’m mostly set on one of these already for my own subjective reasons, but also objective reasons as well: speed of production, cost, consistency, communication etc. I won’t say too […]
I’ve aaalmost finished building our online book shop… One book is in the process of being illustrated, and illustration will begin for another one soon (I think this week). I’m going to contact new Illustrators too, to see if I can get my books ready faster. It’s past midnight and I have another really wonderful […]
Before I wrote even 1 word for my children’s picture books, I read these (and a 5th, but I can’t find it any more…). And they helped me get a much better understanding of the publication process. So to help myself feel accountable as I push my stories into physical books, I’ll continue to share […]
Lorena Alvarez is our favourite children’s book illustrator! Often while trawling through hundreds of illustrators on Behance and Instagram etc, we would find impressive work, but there would be some something missing. A lot of stuff in life is like that, but not Lorena Alvarez’s illustration work! If we could have anyone illustrate our books, […]
wow 13 years ago! I wonder if I had continued to draw, practice and learn, maybe I would be skilled enough to illustrate these books myself. But then maybe it would take much longer than 13 years for me to really have the skills to create really beautiful illustrations like Genevieve Santos and Lorena Alvarez. […]
When we first began to consider the illustration style for our children’s stories, we bought a bunch of beautiful books by artists we love… But understandably none of them are available. So I spent most of yesterday and some of today contacting other illustrators who also produce beautiful work. I hope my noob tone doesn’t […]
2 weeks ago I started writing Children’s Picture Books with my kids. We wrote 4 stories. And things really slowed down as I got stuck on revising the writing. I wanted to trim as many words as possible, without compromising the stories. Not easy! I polished everything as much as I could, and then tonight […]
We’re writing a series of children’s picture books together 🙂 I’ve been reading about the (self) publication process and I wanted to ask if anyone else has had any experience and success writing their own books. I had a very nice, very educational chat with my friend David Snowdon who has self published a very […]
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