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We are two friends who are working on a collaborative DIY children's book called Ruby and Esme. This blog will chronicle our back and forth efforts as we write, illustrate, package, and publish this story. Dedicated to all the friends out there!
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Since our last post in May we have been revising and waiting, revising and waiting. We do have interest from a publisher and we have been asked to revise the manuscript once more and add more developed faces to the characters. And... we are in waiting mode again until we get this round of feedback. Keep us in your thoughts and hold good wishes for Ruby and Esme. Above is Ruby with her very sad face. I love it! There is no way that you could mistake her for happy. Good job my Sever!
This is how we feel. We got the green light, we have an agent!
In just a few days from now Ruby and Esme will be landing on editor's desks far and wide. We should know something by mid-summer. Until then you can listen to Kathie and Bernadette's podcast interview over at craftypod...and then go on vacation and think bidding war for Ruby and Esme until you here from us again!Add a Comment
We are finally done with our illustration samples with text and are now waiting...for a word or better, a green light. No matter what happens we are in LOVE with this project and know it has wings. Can't wait to show you more.
Last Friday, Kathie and I spoke to a local group of senior artists called the Palette Club. We showed our work, talked about process and shared with them our back and forth project Ruby and Esme. Both of us had grins on our faces from the time we arrived and for days after the event. They were all so excited for us, told us what great "girls" we were and to keep up the good work. They wished us deep luck for this book and our long lives ahead (keep in mind we are not spring chickens) but...on second thought, maybe we are. Thank you members of the Palette Club, we adored our time with you.Add a Comment
Quick update. Last post we pitched the story and sample illustrations to an agent. She's interested!! Since then, Kathie added faces and we have been editing the story and trying different fonts out to see what the illustrations could look like in final form. It's not a go yet but we finally came up with a look we love and hope everyone else does too. A sneak peak below. Keep your fingers crossed, it's going to be an amazing little book to behold.
How cool is this? I discovered issuu a while back but finally had the time to sit down and do it. We have been missing from this blog for far too long but we have not forgotten this project, quite the opposite! Today we pitched the story with the above sample illustrations. We are still throwing around the idea of self publishing but the costs have come in so high we just can't swing it right now. So, instead of letting this manuscript sit unattended we really want to see it in our hands, your hands, and most of all, in small hands. Keep your fingers crossed others want the same!Add a Comment
Kathie brought over our new cover, can you stand it?! I would sleep with it if I could but I'm a drooler. :) I spent the morning with Sarah Bork Hamilton doing a Ruby and Esme photo shoot. Sarah, we thank you from the bottom of our toes up through our hearts for taking the time to give us your beautiful eye.
We'll be posting a few more lay outs in the coming days. Check back!
Kathie brought over our new cover, can you stand it?! I would sleep with it if I could but I'm a drooler. :) I spent the morning with Sarah Bork Hamilton doing a Ruby and Esme photo shoot. Sarah, we thank you from the bottom of our toes up through our hearts for taking the time to give us your beautiful eye.
We'll be posting a few more layouts in the coming days. Check back!
Kathie is one of 13 featured in Handmade Nation. Visit the site to learn more about the film by Faythe Levine. The documentary will be released in 2009 but the companion book, that is equally enticing, is already available here! Congratulations to all the women involved with this film. Can't wait!
Now I get why illustrated books can take almost a year to unfold to completion. Sometimes you just have to wait until the next solution arrives. Kathie and I went into the wormhole for a while trying to come up with the next step of how to add to the illustrations during the layout process. Summer came and went and we still hadn't connected. But now, I'm happy to say that through one of Kathie's other unrelated work projects she had a breakthrough and I am thrilled with the new background additions. This adds so much to the feeling of what is going on in each spread. Happy Friday to Ruby and Esme and all friends!!
Now I get why illustrated books can take almost a year to unfold to completion. Sometimes you just have to wait until the next solution arrives. Kathie and I went into the wormhole for a while trying to come up with the next step of how to add to the illustrations during the layout process. Summer came and went and we still hadn't connected. But now, I'm happy to say that through one of Kathie's other unrelated work projects she had a breakthrough and I am thrilled with the new background additions. This adds so much to the feeling of what is going on in each spread. Happy Friday to Ruby and Esme and all friends!!
Remember that interview I mentioned with Diane of Craftypod? Well, it finally got posted over on craftstylish! A big thank you to Diane for helping us get the word out!
Remember that interview I mentioned with Diane of Craftypod? Well, it finally got posted over on craftstylish! A big thank you to Diane for helping us get the word out!
Well my ladies Kathie Sever and Bernadette Noll ( pictured above) have done it again! I love everything about this event and please don't miss it if you are in Austin. This Saturday 10-2pm! I'll be there helping out and hopefully swapping and UPcycling away with my kids. Read a more in-depth article about it on Craft here.
WHAT: Don't Shop; Swap - Clothes swap on Tax free shopping day
WHEN: Saturday,August 16th. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
WHO: This event is being sponsored by the Future Craft Collective and The Zilker Green Committee
WHERE: Zilker Elementary School Gymnasium 1900 Bluebonnet Lane 78704
WHY: Because it's time for back to school shopping but we'd rather swap than shop. We can make a difference by utilizing what's already out there and minimize our impact on our already overtaxed planet.
Those that attend can bring their clothes which will then be sorted into various piles of gender and size and variety. In the style of Swap a rama rama, seen at last year's Maker Faire, we will have sewing machines lined up operated by seamstresses from the community who can help people alter and reconstruct the clothes they find in the piles.
We are hoping to alleviate the pressure on families to spend money they might not have and to buy things they don't need or want. There is definitely pressure applied to consume, to over extend, and it is our hope that we can help people realize that it's way more fun and creative to share what is already out there and for each person to define their own style - thereby making the idea of hand-me-downs and clothes swapping "cool" in the eyes of the kids. And "green" in the eyes of our planet.
Well my ladies Kathie Sever and Bernadette Noll ( pictured above) have done it again! I love everything about this event and please don't miss it if you are in Austin. This Saturday 10-2pm! I'll be there helping out and hopefully swapping and UPcycling away with my kids. Read a more in-depth article about it on Craft here.
WHAT: Don't Shop; Swap - Clothes swap on Tax free shopping day
WHEN: Saturday,August 16th. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
WHO: This event is being sponsored by the Future Craft Collective and The Zilker Green Committee
WHERE: Zilker Elementary School Gymnasium 1900 Bluebonnet Lane 78704
WHY: Because it's time for back to school shopping but we'd rather swap than shop. We can make a difference by utilizing what's already out there and minimize our impact on our already overtaxed planet.
Those that attend can bring their clothes which will then be sorted into various piles of gender and size and variety. In the style of Swap a rama rama, seen at last year's Maker Faire, we will have sewing machines lined up operated by seamstresses from the community who can help people alter and reconstruct the clothes they find in the piles.
We are hoping to alleviate the pressure on families to spend money they might not have and to buy things they don't need or want. There is definitely pressure applied to consume, to over extend, and it is our hope that we can help people realize that it's way more fun and creative to share what is already out there and for each person to define their own style - thereby making the idea of hand-me-downs and clothes swapping "cool" in the eyes of the kids. And "green" in the eyes of our planet.
true, we've been busy doing summerish type stuff instead of updating blogs. we're here, returned and replenished and ready to fire up the workshop midnight oil.... for a cliff notes version of the summer at ramonster world headquarters, head over to my (kathie's) blog... http://ramonsterwear.blogspot.com but come back for more back and forth soon. we will, and this time we promise!!
true, we've been busy doing summerish type stuff instead of updating blogs. we're here, returned and replenished and ready to fire up the workshop midnight oil.... for a cliff notes version of the summer at ramonster world headquarters, head over to my (kathie's) blog... http://ramonsterwear.blogspot.com but come back for more back and forth soon. we will, and this time we promise!!
Hello all! We have both been away for a while. I went on vacation in the Yucatan, see some pictures here. And Kathie has been swamped with Summer and a husband off on tour in Japan. Ooh la la! It all sounds so glamorous but trust me, we like to refer to it as the privileged poor. We are both back and excited to be moving into the next step of our book Ruby and Esme. I am in the process of scanning Kathie's drawings and we played around with the beginning of an attempt at layout. It's all quite exciting to look at the possibilities. My favorite comment though was from my adorable assistant Emily after I showed her all of Kathie's illustrations and work. She said "Oh my god, can she just rule the world with a needle?!" Um...yes.
Hello all! We have both been away for a while. I went on vacation in the Yucatan, see some pictures here. And Kathie has been swamped with Summer and a husband off on tour in Japan. Ooh la la! It all sounds so glamorous but trust me, we like to refer to it as the privileged poor. We are both back and excited to be moving into the next step of our book Ruby and Esme. I am in the process of scanning Kathie's drawings and we played around with the beginning of an attempt at layout. It's all quite exciting to look at the possibilities. My favorite comment though was from my adorable assistant Emily after I showed her all of Kathie's illustrations and work. She said "Oh my god, can she just rule the world with a needle?!" Um...yes.
