My Oldest Love

I have what seemes like the longest time been in love with telling stories.  I have been a part of 30 plus plays either working backstage or singing and dancing alone in the front lime light.  I have built interactive digital stories that used the now defunked Director Program.   And ever since I have graduated college back in 2001 I have written and illustrated children’s books.

I can say with great confidence that my oldest love is children’s books.  I have been a great fan of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. And also have loved the art of Howard Pyle and NC Weyth who illustrated the great classics Treasure Island, Robin Hood, Gulliver’s Travels.

I have had Limited sucsess with my books.  I have had one book published with a collection of nightmares that happened with the printing and publishing end. I have enough rejections to wall paper my bathroom now (A targetable goal that most of teachers have reached too.)  I have started self publishing a collection of illustrated short stories.   And yet I still love what I do.  I keep working at. I keep changing and improving on what I have made, and also I start new projects that sometime die to apathy only to picked up a year later to be birthed into there own well earned covers.

I hope you enjoy the very private backstage pass to my world of being a children’s book illustrator.