Cozy and Maple

Category: I am an artist

  • My Favorite Painting

    My Favorite Painting

    From where I’m sitting, I have a framed copy of my favorite painting: A Huguenot, On St. Bartholomew’s Day by John Everett Millais. He’s recently come into renewed fame lately thanks to Taylor Swift for his painting of Ophelia, but my favorite is the lesser known one that hangs on my library wall, part of…

  • Building a Book: Part 2

    Building a Book: Part 2

    I did it! I finished the first rough draft. My sweet little beginning chapter book idea is now an actual, completely typed out story with a beginning, middle, and end. I made a deal with myself that I would devote the next 6 months to trying to get it traditionally published, and if I’m not…

  • Building a Book Part 1: Why Won’t This Book Leave Me Alone?

    Building a Book Part 1: Why Won’t This Book Leave Me Alone?

    There’s a folder on my computer with a very rough draft of a children’s chapter book in it. It’s been sitting there for almost a year. I open it every once in a while. I skim a chapter or two. I close it again. And yet, here I am, still thinking about it. This book…

  • Imposter Syndrome as an Author/Illustrator

    Imposter syndrome is a funny thing. It sneaks in quietly, like a shadow, and before you know it, you’re questioning everything. Today, as I dust off the rough draft of my fourth children’s book, “Growing Honey,” I can feel that old familiar doubt creeping in. Writing a book is hard enough, but writing and illustrating?…