Every now and then I go back and do a little more family research, hoping to break early brick walls and looking to break new ground. I got a little over excited a few days ago when one of the leaves (hints) on Ancestry.com led me to other people’s trees, showing that one of my ancestors (a Major Ralph Hart who might have fought in the French and Indian War) was descended from a Eustace Hart and a Mary de…
Today, I worked on a cover that I normally would have assigned to someone else, but that someone else already had plenty on her plate, and I wanted to do something a little different from my usual fare and take a break from my illustration work. So I took on Amanda Steiger’s urban fantasy, Unclaimed, where the author requests something like The Scent of Shadows—except the heroine should have short black hair. I had a hard time finding the stock…
It’s been ages since I’ve posted anything about my work, so it must seem I don’t work much at all. But, despite my lack of blogging and my endless playing on Farmville, I’m still doing my thing. I think last year I worked on 40-50 print covers, and goodness knows how many e-book covers I did — hundreds, I’m guessing. I’d go insane trying to pick a dozen of them to show here, so I’ll show only my first mass…
Minnie asked me once what it meant when her young kitten Ariana bit her. Silly me, I told her it meant that the cat loved her because whenever my black cat bites me, it’s a gentle love bite on the calf, sometimes right before she licks me nearly to death. I’d completely forgotten what it was like to have a kitten who really grabbed onto your arm with its front paws, attacked your wrist with its teeth, and kicked you…
Or Happy Testicle Day … whichever you celebrate. It’s been a while since I’ve added to the Mondegreens category, but how apropos on this greenest of days. Last night, H.E. and I had dinner with some of his friends — two couples; I guess that made it a triple date, or a ménage times two. It was pretty good conversation all around. H.E.’s friends are rather brilliant and funny, and I managed to keep up for most of it. There…