Lucy is making her rounds
"Lucy the Baby Deer" has been released and is getting into the hands of young readers. The author, Robert Maunus, is encouraged with the initial response, and we hope to expand its reach into more bookstores, libraries and children's bookshelves soon with a second printing.
Lon Eric Craven
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Lucy into print
The new book, Lucy, the Baby Deer, will be off the presses in a week or so. It will be good to feel the hardcover book in my hands after seeing it develop. The designer sent me a copy of the cover.
A busy start to 2009
"The Secret of St. Nicholas" is still on sale through its web site, and some of the artwork was featured in an exhibit in Maryland over the Christmas season. Here is a collage of some of the images that I recreated for the author.
New artwork will be forthcoming as I'm able to share the new projects underway. The book about the baby deer is in production and some sketches for other books are in the early stages, - lec
New book for getting away from it all....
C.W. Gusewelle's new book, The Cabin - Away from it All, was published in time for Christmas this year. The author was good enough to let me do the cover and a few inside illustrations. From the publisher's description:
Join C.W. Gusewelle as he opens his cabin door -- and his heart -- to the reader in this moving collection of columns from his hideaway in the Missouri's Ozarks.
The cabin's influence on Gusewelle, columnist with The Kansas City Star, cannot be overstated. In his 20s, after returning from the military, Gusewelle spent a solitary winter there, working to grow his skills as a writer.
Part of each day he spent at the typewriter, part cutting stove wood to keep warm, and part hunting game for food.
Decades later, it remains his refuge.
Inside these pages are countless memories of family, friends, creatures great and small, and the inspiring message of man's necessary alliance with nature.
St. Nicholas and the Season
It's encouraging to hear the response to "The Secret of St. Nicholas" as I talk with its author, Ellen Nibali, and people who have read it around the country. The story is one that's accessible to young and old alike....based around a theme of doing good deeds in secret. The Nicholas in the story doesn't set out to be a hero, but his generosity changes the world around him nonetheless. – lec