Illustration

hummingbbird

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Yea!

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This past week my 2nd edition of Treasure Island finally reached the 1st page in the search results and sales took off.

So celebrating with a picture of a hummingbird that reminds me of my grandmother\’s house.

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seahorse

Seahorse

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I have nothing much to add. It’s a seahorse. I thought the illustration was interesting.

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Tough to Replicate

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I’d like to put together books with pages like this for ebooks/kindle, but for pretty much all the formats available now, it isn’t possible. Sometimes with the advance of technology, we actually lose wonderful things. Even with paper books, with the software I am using this would VERY difficult to do. In one area the image is a background, and in another area the image is a background and then the text wraps around another part of the image.

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War of the Worlds Art

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One of the images I\’ll be using for the War of the Worlds book.  Drawn by Henrique Alvim Corrêa for a 1906 French edition of the book.  32 of the original drawing went up for auction 2 years ago.  I wish I could have purchased one, but they sold for FAR more than I can afford.  Over half a million dollars for the group!

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Cover Art

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My step-father is colorizing pictures used in my Treasure Island book. Two he colored were used for the cover images. I think he did a great job! What do you think? We hope to eventually put out a version of the book full of colorized illustrations.

Work continues on several different books. A friend is helping me check the text for a Japanese version of Treasure Island.( 宝島). I’m working on the 1818 version of Frankenstein, but I’m having trouble finding images I can use for it. I’m also working on H. G. Well’s book The War of the Worlds. Thinking of a large-print edition of Treasure Island.

Some day I’ll also put out ebook or Kindle versions.

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