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You may have been wondering why it's so quiet around here lately…
The answer is I've been hard at work! Above are my new postcards (created with my agents, ABLA). They're designed and printed in time for the SCBWI conference (aka #LA15scbwi), which kicks off tomorrow morning bright and early. It takes a good bit of preparation — new portfolio art, new postcards, new dummies or manuscripts. New shoes!
Some people begin to prepare months in advance, but I couldn't. I have another project on the go, also demanding my 1000% attention. I'm working on my picture book for Nord Süd (North South Books): getting to know the characters ...and playing around with the hero...
...with his eponymous green umbrella…
And above all, trying to get the visual narrative to work:Here is the famous storyboard clothesline, with earlier versions of many of the spreads. Of course, by the time the book gets into print there will be more changes, revisions and endless effing tweaks.
So that's where I have been lately. This blog will probably stay quiet for a little while longer, but nowadays I can also be found on Instagram and even tweeting on Twitter.
See you all later — enjoy the summer!
By: Maral Sassouni,
on 3/6/2015
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I can finally announce that I've been at work on a new picture book! It will be published by
NordSüd Verlag, the wonderful Swiss publishing house (Lisbeth Zwerger, Oliver Jeffers and Natascha Rosenberg are amongst the artists who regularly work for them).
North South Books (their American imprint) will also publish it— so it will be available in both English and German! Simultaneously!!
Though the announcement says that I'm unagented (I
did negotiate this deal on my own), I am now being represented by the fabulous literary agent,
Jen Rofé (of ABLA—
Andrea Brown Literary Agency). They represent so many wonderful writers and artists in the realm of children's literature… I'm pleased as punch to be among them…
So if I am more quiet than usual on this blog, it is because somebody or other is cracking the whip and I am galloping full speed to keep up!
I connected with Maral on Facebook because I swoon at her artwork and because she is a huge Francophile like me. She is relatively new to children’s books, but her work has been well received: selected in Society of Illustrators (Illustrators … Continue reading →
