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Cheers, LIzLizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-64176139107130592192021-12-09T08:21:00.000-08:002021-12-09T08:21:22.049-08:00<h2 style="text-align: left;">Witch & Wolf Shop Open!</h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.zazzle.com/mbr/238392501521034992">https://www.zazzle.com/mbr/238392501521034992</a></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Witch & Wolf offers high-quality, original artwork. Artist Liz Amini-Holmes is a San Francisco Bay Area award-winning book and commercial illustrator. She weaves her favorite themes of folklore and fairytales, pagan mythology, symbolism, dreams, and nature into her work. Using rich colors and theatrical compositions her art holds a story within a story of something hidden and mysterious, bittersweet and unrequited, making it altogether unique. Please check back often as new items are uploaded several times a week.</span></p><p><br /></p>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-35928063167946152342021-06-12T15:20:00.000-07:002021-06-12T15:20:08.131-07:00Fatty Legs (10th anniversary edition)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D6v31GlVB4Y/YMUyYav_VyI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/68b3W4aUABs2OHuSJFNqA63QGc8WVHywACLcBGAsYHQ/s440/9781773213514_cover1_rb_fullcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="318" height="484" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D6v31GlVB4Y/YMUyYav_VyI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/68b3W4aUABs2OHuSJFNqA63QGc8WVHywACLcBGAsYHQ/w349-h484/9781773213514_cover1_rb_fullcover.jpg" width="349" /></a></div><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></b><p></p><p><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em;">The beloved story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 19px;">Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton’s powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir’s 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections on the book’s impact, and a bonus chapter from the acclaimed follow-up, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Stranger at Home</i>. New content includes a foreword from Dr. Debbie Reese, noted Indigenous scholar and founder of American Indians in Children’s Literature, while Christy Jordan-Fenton, mother of Margaret’s grandchildren and a key player in helping Margaret share her stories, discusses the impact of the book in a new preface.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363636; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 19px;">With important updates since it first hit the shelves a decade ago, this new edition of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fatty Legs</i> will continue to resonate with readers young and old.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19px;"><span style="color: #363636; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 19.2px;"><a href="https://www.annickpress.com/Books/F/Fatty-Legs-10th-anniversary-edition">https://www.annickpress.com/Books/F/Fatty-Legs-10th-anniversary-edition</a></span></span></p>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-69743562003541142072020-02-26T17:02:00.000-08:002020-02-26T17:08:34.980-08:00Announcing Representation!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am excited to announce I have signed with Johan Almvqvist, founder of Tapir Literary agency.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Johan is formerly of Callisto media, Chronicle Books, Random House, and others. He has represented popular authors such as Jo Nesbo, James Patterson and Dan Brown as well as entertainment brands properties such as Disney’s Frozen and HBO’s Game of Thrones and The Beatles. Tapir<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Agency will be representing me in all things literary and art. Stay tuned for project updates!<br />
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-24423892835574173932019-01-15T11:53:00.002-08:002019-01-15T12:44:46.239-08:00Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code garners Southwest Book Award<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--BCrtqXta5U/W9yixra417I/AAAAAAAAAsI/58FsT2hxL9o6XAVuSuzHQZDxqDcbsWgNgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/9780807500071.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--BCrtqXta5U/W9yixra417I/AAAAAAAAAsI/58FsT2hxL9o6XAVuSuzHQZDxqDcbsWgNgCK4BGAYYCw/s320/9780807500071.jpg" width="258" /></a>Like many Native American children, Betoli, a Navajo boy, was taken from his family to a missionary boarding school, where he was forbidden to speak Navajo and forced to change his name to Chester. He endured the painful process of having his long hair shaved, forlornly depicted in a stark image in which black crows with outspread wings carry away the strips of his hair. Summers spent at home, immersed once again in the love, language, and culture of his people, gave him the strength to carry on. As he got older, Chester adapted as best he could to the forced assimilation. He joined the military during World War II and became one of the first Code Talkers, who used their own language to undermine the Japanese, efforts that helped to end the war. Bruchac’s story dares to go beyond the war in highlighting the postwar trauma that Chester experienced, demonstrated in a beautiful yet haunting illustration that symbolically captures his pain. This tale of a real-life Code Talker humanizes the main character by giving readers the whole picture of his connectedness to home and family, which is reinforced in Amini-Holmes’ textured paintings, which resonate on an almost ethereal level.</div>
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A perfect, well-rounded historical story that will engage readers of all ages. (author’s note, partial code key, timeline) <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">(Picture book/biography. 6-10)</i></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-70533100920338314542018-02-21T20:11:00.000-08:002018-02-21T20:12:17.499-08:00CHESTER NEZ AND THE UNBREAKABLE CODE NEWS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "sf optimized" , , , , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;">Fantastic news about CHESTER NEZ AND THE UNBREAKABLE CODE. First, the book has been named a Junior Library Guild Selection for April 2018, which means that the Junior Library Guild has named it a gold standard book. Second, Kirkus Reviews has given the book a STARRED REVIEW!! I am proud and thankful! Nice mentions about my artwork <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joseph-bruchac/chester-nez-and-the-unbreakable-code/">https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joseph-bruchac/chester-nez-and-the-unbreakable-code/</a></span><br />
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-34564987867483014742017-12-04T18:17:00.001-08:002017-12-04T18:23:41.231-08:00Publishers Weekly Review of "Miracle"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In a brisk, gentle poem, a brown-skinned girl named Piper Rose stays outside all day in the snow, waiting for a miracle: “Miracle miracle, where are you?/ I’ve searched and I’ve searched the whole day through.” Throughout, Amini-Holmes incorporates the word <em>miracle </em>into the landscape around Piper Rose: she perches on it pensively in the opening spread, and it later appears written in cloudlike letters in the sky, in the branches of a tree, and on the face of the sun. Piper doesn’t take much notice of any of these signs, and in the final pages, readers will understand that she’s holding out for a specific miracle: the appearance of the moon in the night sky. Though <em>miracle</em> is quite literally spelled out on each spread, it’s unclear whether Haddock aims to encourage readers to appreciate small, everyday miracles; the overall effect is that of a contemplative nursery rhyme. Piper Rose’s red coat and windblown, vibrantly striped scarf are an immediate draw in each of Amini-Holmes’s illustrations. The snowy scenes are all quite similar, but they exude a quiet, wintry peacefulness. Ages 4–8. <em>(BookLife)</em></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-49572149984897827782017-12-04T18:08:00.001-08:002017-12-09T11:35:45.129-08:00Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zVYt9pmmmdk/WiX98csXywI/AAAAAAAAAoY/dSOjhsNWe94CkR7TKqGz-a5Bf1Co3ht2wCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/51MfMWeaYlL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zVYt9pmmmdk/WiX98csXywI/AAAAAAAAAoY/dSOjhsNWe94CkR7TKqGz-a5Bf1Co3ht2wCK4BGAYYCw/s400/51MfMWeaYlL.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="318" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Coming April 1, 2017 from Albert Whitman and Co. I am honored to have illustrated this timely and important story by </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Joseph Bruchac,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the one of the most well regarded authors of </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Native American stories </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a young Navajo boy, Chester Nez had to leave the reservation and attend boarding school, where he was taught that his native language and culture were useless. But Chester refused to give up his heritage. Years later, during World War II, Chester—and other Navajo men like him—was recruited by the US Marines to use the Navajo language to create an unbreakable military code. Suddenly the language he had been told to forget was needed to fight a war. This powerful picture book biography contains backmatter including a timeline and a portion of the Navajo code, and also depicts the life of an original Navajo code talker while capturing the importance of heritage.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>https://www.albertwhitman.com/book/chester-nez-unbreakable-code/</u></span></div>
Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-42129211777251117482017-07-09T14:12:00.000-07:002017-07-09T14:12:28.636-07:00New Book for Spring 2017- The Fantastical Children of Pond Kingdom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am overjoyed to illustrate Ruth Finnegan's picture book The Fantastical Children of Pond Kingdom published by Balestier Press-UK<br />
https://www.balestier.com/books/picturebooks/the-fantastical-children-of-pond-kingdom/<br />
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-41795339813775071372017-02-27T23:28:00.003-08:002017-02-27T23:28:55.842-08:00Upcoming Book: Code Talkers picture book<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "San Francisco", -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">I am very pleased to announce my new project for publishers Albert Whitman & Company. I will be illustrating Code Talkers by Joseph Bruchac out next spring. Code Talkers are little-known and only recently celebrated group of young Navajo men who created the secret code that led to the victory of World War Two. I am so fortunate to work on this book by illustrating this extraordinary story. I am again honored to bring indigenous peoples stories to light.</span></div>
Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-8371780480174498952016-10-28T15:52:00.002-07:002016-10-28T15:52:43.270-07:00Blurb's Guest Post: How to hire an illustrator or Don't Make Me Poke My Eye Out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hj9I68eF4HU/WBPWd_6a_5I/AAAAAAAAAis/vuxRh2u4jacMC1Hg7UQQcKO6VAzu8euKwCK4B/s1600/pokemyeyeout.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hj9I68eF4HU/WBPWd_6a_5I/AAAAAAAAAis/vuxRh2u4jacMC1Hg7UQQcKO6VAzu8euKwCK4B/s400/pokemyeyeout.jpeg" /></a><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following is a guest post by <a href="http://www.lunavilla.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8224e3; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Liz Amini-Holmes</a>, an illustrator-for-hire and member of the <a href="http://www.blurb.com/dreamteam-collaborators" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8224e3; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blurb Dream Team</a>, a group of vetted book professionals you can hire for help with your projects.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’d like to start by saying there are days when I get an inquiry from a potential client that make me want to poke my drawing pencil into my eyeball. Why, you ask? Aren’t inquiries exactly what artists want as freelancers? Well, that depends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I sip my morning tea and scan my emails, I excitedly open up an email inquiry from a potential client.</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Hello Artist/ My Name Spelled Wrong/Anonymous/No Name…</span></em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I have a story, <inset any=""> painfully cute animals / sad, misunderstood clown lost in a supermarket/ hero fantasy starring yours truly/ avant-garde nursery rhyme written in Welsh. My children’s book is beyond amazing and I know this because <inset all="" any="" if="" like="" or="" you=""> my best friend/ professional snuggler/mother/ barista/cat behavior consultant, all LOVE it therefore I know it will be a best-seller.</inset></inset></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I want all the art to be painted in a bright colored, digital, cartoony style, just like Pixar. Have you heard of PIXAR? You know the Animated Movie Company?</em></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 20px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">very </strong>specific ideas about the art and figured out all the pieces own my head so I <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">just </strong>need you to execute it. I want assurance that the artwork will look exactly like what I have in mind.</span></em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a small budget of coins, bobbins and lint from my desk drawer I can pay you in inconstant amounts over the course of the next five years. But I know as a <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">free</strong>lancer you do this for the joy of it and you will to ride on my coattails of upcoming success. As I am sure this is hobby-job for you while your kids are at school you do not really need the money.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #666666;">I push my pencil into my
sharpener. Whirrrrr. Might need to either put on safety glasses or walk away
from my computer after reading this inquiry as the need to now poke both my
eyes out is becoming eminent. But then as if the skies open up a new email
request comes in…</span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi Liz,</span></em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My name is Jane Doe and I found your portfolio on the Blurb.com in the Dream Team section. I think your conceptual, jewel tone colored illustration style would be a perfect match for my story. I am looking for an artist to create a color cover and 24 full color interior illustrations for my self-published picture book about a little girl looking for her lost dog in a mysterious forest.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Since I am new to the self-publishing market, I’m not sure what the budget for a picture book is and I want to make be assured I pay you at a fair competitive rate. My hope is to have all artwork to done by the end of the year. Is that is a reasonable amount of time? Can you please advise?</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are interested, I am happy to send you a copy of my manuscript to give you a more detailed idea of the story and character.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thanks for your time!</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An email like this instantly lifts my mood. She understands the correct way to inquire about hiring an illustrator. I want to hug her over email.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What went wrong in the first inquiry? Let’s break down why the first email put me over the edge.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rule #1: Know My Name</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This person does not know my name or does not use my name or makes other big errors like misspelling my name. It is very easy to find my name if you found my email address. Google me! I am all over the place. An accurate, personal address makes me think you are serious about your inquiry. Also, if there is no name attached, I will think you are sending out mass inquires trolling for responses and my interest in the project drops significantly.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rule #2: Introduce Yourself</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You did not introduce <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">yourself</em>. A quick “Hello my name is…” is a professional way to begin. You wouldn’t go into a face-to-face meeting and not introduce yourself; an email inquiry is a first time meeting between you (the author) and me (the artist) so put your best foot forward.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rule #3: Let Your Work Speak for How Amazing You Are</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is healthy to have a good dose of self-confidence about your work, but it is easy to put off potential collaborators by sounding self-inflated. I understand you and your host of people who love your work and are excited to see it get noticed, but let the work speak for itself.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rule #4: Know Your Project</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the description of your work is too vague, or it is complicated and unclear, I can’t give you an estimate. Be specific. Give me a project description, rough number of book pages, color or black and white, deadline and budget. These are the essential parts in order to get an accurate quote from a professional illustrator. I will need the basic premise and a few details about your story for me to get an idea if it is something I feel suited for. I want to help you but I can only do that if I understand what your project is about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, before you send an inquiry take some time to review my <a href="http://www.lunavilla.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8224e3; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">portfolio or web site</a> to ensure I have a style that suits the project you have in mind. For example, I do not do cartoony, bright-colored work in the Pixar style. Most artists have their own style and shy away from requests to copy someone else’s. We know our work; we hope you know what works best for your particular project in the same way.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rule #6: This is a Partnership</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When a potential client informs me I am just to execute the art with no input, I’m not very excited to work on the project. As a creative person, I understand how you can have very specific ideas about your book. I am here to make your ideas come to fruition, but I am also here to add to the experience to make it the best it can be. Since we’re both creatives, we both want the chance to use our voices and flex our muscles where we’re strongest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ever </em>ask an illustrator to work for free. This is the profession I went to college for and received an art degree. I’ve worked for many years honing my skills. I have bills and a mortgage to pay just like you. The old cliché still holds: You’d never ask your lawyer, doctor, dentist, or mechanic to work for free. All good work comes at a price, and this includes artwork. Please research the costs for hiring an illustrator. A good place to start to look for pricing is the Graphics Artists Guild Guidelines or Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators website. Respect your own work enough to hire an artist that will make their work look the best it can be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be prepared to place an initial payment on the illustration job. This secures my time on my schedule to complete your project. An initial payment also protects the illustrator should the client unexpectedly cancel the project after the illustrator has started the work. This actually protects you and me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are talking about basic, good business practice. A contract protects you and me. You can expect such details included as the project schedule, the cost breakdown, specifics regarding the execution of the artwork, payment deliverable, all the details of what we both are obligated to do over the course of our working together. Sidenote: “ASAP” is not a proper schedule. The contract will also clearly define Rights Agreements specific to your project.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rule #10 Follow Up</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please email me back of you are not interested. It takes <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a lot </em>of my time to write up a proposal, schedule and estimate of cost. It is just the polite thing to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In closing, know that, as an artist, I want to bring to your work my heart and soul to make your story come alive. It is a partnership, each complimenting the other. Hiring an illustrator is a big commitment, but it can be a fun and worthwhile experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To sum it up:</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #525559; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Set realistic expectations</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #525559; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Understand a contract is needed</span></li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #525559; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Know ahead what a fair rate is for an artist’s time, location and</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best of luck on your project! and Please don't make me poke my eye out!</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-37965241808644865902016-06-19T23:08:00.002-07:002016-06-19T23:11:48.597-07:00A New Book! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-26666555176027772642015-03-09T23:14:00.003-07:002015-03-09T23:14:52.304-07:00Upcoming Gallery Show!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-83701709908473340952014-12-01T19:48:00.000-08:002014-12-01T19:48:44.889-08:00New Website!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Finally! Please visit me and my artwork at <a href="http://www.lunavilla.com/">www.lunavilla.com</a> It only took me 7 years to re-do. Although I love the old site's look and feel (and i might still try to work that style more into this one) I can now update everything myself and I have a blog space on the site too which I will migrate and combine all blogish things together at some point.<br />
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-40822324628201508792014-11-10T20:17:00.001-08:002014-11-10T20:23:02.805-08:00Resak and the Bear<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Two of the four illustrations I painted for the folktale "Resak and the Bear" for the Nov/Dec issue of Cricket magazine. It is always lovely working for Cricket magazine - great quality stories and wonderful editorial staff!<br />
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-79151212373809632022014-08-07T13:45:00.001-07:002014-08-07T13:45:51.486-07:00Cricket Magazine Assigment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Happy to be working on another assignment for Cricket Magazine. Four illustrations depicting the Ainu (Japan's indigenous peoples) folktale of Resak and The Bear. Will post sketches and paintings in a couple of weeks.</div>
Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-67072425708787779362014-05-06T09:08:00.002-07:002014-05-06T09:08:35.805-07:00A New Year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It has been a difficult year. My mother passed away at the end of February and the months prior to her death were filled with she and I coming to terms with her terminal cancer. Thank you everyone for visiting my blog and websites and your continuing support of my work. I plan on updating all my sites as soon as I can. Peace - Liz</div>
Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-24894119820520927212013-07-20T14:25:00.003-07:002013-07-20T14:25:45.934-07:00How The Maricopas Made Wishes Come True<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">A lyrical and haunting poem I illustrated for Cricket Magazine November/December 2013.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-6700298923986969322013-03-29T13:18:00.000-07:002013-08-15T20:36:57.842-07:00Wolf Song: Girl Dreaming<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-39909163355389373792013-02-17T17:19:00.003-08:002013-08-15T20:40:11.570-07:00Wolf Song: Cover In Progress<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After many iterations I like the way this image is progressing. Now I need to make it work for the final size and add in the back of the cover.</div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-55306725166619235352013-02-17T17:10:00.000-08:002013-08-15T20:39:12.979-07:00Wolf Song: Wolf On The Path<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a sample of one of the pages without copy from Wolf Song: <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Wolf On The Path double page spread</span>.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> The original the image looked too static so I tried to make it more dynamic and show how the villagers think of the wolf in their minds - a hulking killer instead of a </span>lonely, broken beast.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-51459612139607482932013-01-22T12:22:00.000-08:002013-01-22T12:22:12.807-08:00Wolf Song Rough Color Sketches<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06789201026280552080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7024079574547537737.post-6218691555467909572012-11-27T13:46:00.002-08:002012-11-27T13:46:38.243-08:00Process of making Wolf Song Book Cover<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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