WOW! Everything is ready to publish the book mid month. For once I’m early finishing a project. Here’s the cover. I decided to go with a purple background because a lot of the Halloween books on Amazon had either a dark blue or purple background. Tomorrow I’ll get the book up for pre-sale.
Here’s the final illustration for The Pumpkin and the Mouse Jinn. YAY! Turned out SO CUTE! All the illustrations are done. And the book is almost edited. I’ve decided to do a final edit to make it appropriate for young readers, and I plan to do it with ChatGPT. On to the book cover.
Guess where the pumpkin lands on his final wish. Poor pumpkin. Here’s one of the final illustrations for The Pumpkin and the Mouse Jinn. Only one more illustration to go for the final page. It’s the one I’ve been most excited to create with the mouse and a pumpkin pie. Yes you’ll get to see it soon! You’ll also see the book cover soon!
Here’s where the pumpkin ends up after his second wish in The Pumpkin and the Mouse Jinn. Yes, that means the illustrations for the third scene are complete. You only get to see one. There are three more illustrations to go. I’m still on target to finish the book in time to publish mid July!
Very excited to have finished the illustrations for the second scene in The Pumpkin and the Mouse Jinn. It’s a children’s book that I started 3 years ago when I was still attending graphic design school. This is an illustration for the new book. I had originally done the book in digital watercolors. I love these flat vector images even more. Here, the pumpkin finds himself in a dark truck, on the way to market after his first wish. The tricky mouse jinn is ready to grant his next wish. This book will be for sale sometime mid September.
Thought I’d share some news about my first children’s book. I wrote this story a long time ago as flash fiction for adults, but while in an illustration class, I decided to revise it for kids. Here’s one of the illustrations for early in the book I recently finished. My plan is to publish the book before Halloween. This is when the mouse jinn grants the pumpkin’s first wish to leave the pumpkin patch. I’ll share more illustrations as the book progresses. BTW, this will be the first book I publish under my real name, Wendy Spurlin.
Yes, I illustrated this book and will share a few of my favorite illustrations with you in later posts. This was a really fun and informative project. Dr. Martha is an amazing Chinese Medical Doctor and Acupuncturist. It’s great when you can illustrate a book and learn so much about staying healthy and young. I also published this book through my ArmLin House Productions company. You can buy the book on Amazon, Barnes and Nobel, and in other stored.
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