Every Tuesday, I update the two to do lists I maintain to keep track of my work at my two main publishers. I normally have about a dozen or so items on the first, with a few items assigned to people I manage, and about a handful of items on the second, all for me. Book cover titles are highlighted in green, and checked off items are highlighted in orange. Relevant notes are pencilled in. I print the lists out…
It’s been a long time since I attended classes, and yet I still regularly dream about being in school. It’s never the same school or the same teachers. The campuses always look strange and new, and the situation always seems odd or unusual. Last night, I dreamed I was on a math team headed by teacher Mel Gibson, and Mel Gibson was being a jerk. We were scheduled to go to some tournament between the 8th and the 11th of…
I don’t read chick lit, but I’ve always liked the illustration style on a lot of chick lit covers. Considering I’m into cartooning, it’s a very doable style for me, but I never really get many chances to do anything like it for work. With Suz deMello’s The Wilder Brother, I got my third shot at doing a cartoon cover. My first was Charming the Snake, and my second was Whose Bride Is She Anyway?, where I used my own…
I’ve been asked by two or three different people how I did this cover (heck if I know why, as it’s one of the least remarkable of my covers), so I thought I’d post a little behind-the-scenes background on it. First, it wasn’t an easy cover. It took at least three drafts before I got a final approval on it, and I generally pride myself on being the sort of artist that gets it right in one draft. So the…
I’ll get to posting regularly again. I promise. Last week was a bit hectic, and this whole month and next will probably be a whirlwind of stuff. I’ll reveal the why later, after the fact. But I’ll tell you what happened last week, the same day I posted the wedding cake photo. It happened before I posted the photo, even, but I just didn’t feel like writing about it. H.E. and I were in an accident; we were hit in…