So after what seems like for ever I can now place a link to where you can buy my book.  Please go and buy a copy.

http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=53845

My second children's book is now for sale.

The Secret Magics of Maine

by Matt Watier

Playing in the shadowy mud of the forest, swimming in the cold Atlantic Ocean, and hiding under the wildflowers in the fields, children find magic throughout Maine. Share with your child the enchanting stories and mystical creatures in Watier’s The Secret Magics of Maine. This guide and its award winning illustrations will inspire your child’s imagination as they meet mythical creatures like Victoria, Queen of the Lobsters, Flarians children of the Sun, and the Arctic Frost Beast who is the cause of deep winter blizzards. Don’t miss a chance to share a magical moment with your child.

After a week of painting I have finally finished the poster for my upcoming book the Secret Magicks of Maine, and I am sending it back to Xlibris to become the poster. Here is the sneak peak of it I hope you see it soon in a book store near you.

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I have an upcoming book that I am self publishing. One of the parts of the package that I need to finish was the poster. I felt though the book is filled with some really great art that I wanted to make something new that spoke of the feel for the book.  So, working from the title of the book “The Secret Magics of Maine” I came up with a concept of a fairy that was slightly hiding keeping a secret.

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The title art for the book didn't make it to the poster

SO I am slowly working on self publishing the Secret Magicks of Maine and one of the major pieces of marketing is the poster that will be sent to book stores for signings and other such events. I wanted to make a unique painting for the book because none of the interior art besides the sketch for the title page speak to the title.

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The Secret Magics of Maine was a practice in making new myths. Not modern myths but myths that would sit by the Norse creation of the world and not seem like it was a flamingo in a flock of penguins. The book was an exploration of the small-unexplained moments that make my home state of Maine “worth a visit worth a life time.”

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