My brilliant editor Joe Bongiorno is busy doing the layout for our Oz book -- and to prove it, here's the work he's doing with the fabulous Gabhor Utomo's cover art. This is the first time I'm publishing an actual piece of art from the book and I'm totally tickled. From left to right, the characters are: Ojo the Munchkin boy, Princess Ozma, Grandma Natch, and Button-Bright. Enjoy!
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
INTRODUCING TERESA JENELLEN DAVIES
INTRODUCING TERESA JENELLEN
DAVIES
It’s been a while since my last post, but I’m back with news
about the wonderful Teresa Jenellen Davies.
She’s the third illustrator for my upcoming Oz book, The Law of Oz, and other stories. We found Teresa at the same website where we
found Gabhor Utomo, http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator-details/tjenellen/id=1435/
If you visit her portfolio – and I strongly recommend it –
you’ll see exactly what we fell in love with.
She has a magical way of seeing right into the hearts of her subjects, which
is the very thing we wanted for the second story, The Lost Boy of Oz. There’s
an intimacy about her work that pulls the viewer right into her world. She usually paints in full color, but she’s
doing soulful black and white work for this project. By the way, her portfolio includes a terrific
portrait of our old friend Dorothy Gale, complete with Toto.
If you know anything about Welsh names, you won’t be
surprised to learn that Teresa herself is Welsh. Moreover, she speaks Welsh fluently – a rare
thing these days, even in Wales. In
addition to her illustration, she has produced fantastic poster art and has
designed for the theater. Her most
recent theatrical credit is Aberystwyth Art Centre’s The Dreaming Beauty. Teresa
studied art at Aberystwyth University, where she received her BA in 2008 and
her MA in 2012.
Teresa’s work for us is not quite done yet, but the end is
in sight – both for her and for us. What
a long road it’s been since we set out!
We’ve got to get it done, though, because finished copies of the book
are due this June at the next convention of the International Wizard of Oz Club,
where I’ll have my first ever Display and Trade Table. My editor Joe Bongiorno is doing the layout
for the book as we speak. Am I
nervous? Oh, brother!
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
SAY HELLO TO OJO!!!
Last week you met Button-Bright, one of the two heroes of my
Oz stories. Today I’ll introduce you to
Button-Bright’s best friend and fellow protagonist, Ojo the Munchkin boy.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
MEET THE BOYS!!!
MEET THE BOYS!!!
The Boys, as I call them, are Button-Bright and Ojo, the two
heroes of my Oz stories. Readers who
never got past The Wizard of Oz probably
haven’t heard of them, because the series was well underway before Baum
introduced them. But Oz fans know them
and love them, and I hope you will too.
Button-Bright continues to live a happy life in Oz, one in
which he becomes famous for one thing:
getting lost. But some of us can’t
seem to leave it at that. The mystery of
Button-Bright is irresistible. What was
the story with his family? And why does
he still get lost? If you read my
stories, you’ll find my own answers to these questions – and others that Baum
never thought to ask.
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