Rise quixotic and cryptic beauties, rise.

I am not responsible for them, but I must find out...

Wind in the Willows in Hemslojd

Check out Sweden's Hemslojd magazine this month for a mention 

of my Threads cover. Thanks Maria!

Guest blogging at Penguin Books

Read a post about the process of creating Wizard of Oz here.

Interview with the Huffington Post

The Huffington Post asks me a few questions regarding the Threads series.

Oooh O-O-O-Omag

Artwork for The Light Between Oceans book review. In 1918, after four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on remote Janus Rock. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes only four times a year and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Three years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel is tending the grave of her newly lost infant when she hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up on shore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the dead man and the infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim the child as their own and name her Lucy, but a rift begins to grow between them. When Lucy is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world…and one of them is desperate to find her lost baby.

Artwork for Dare Me book review. Since both girls were small, Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and right-hand lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls - until the young new coach arrives.

Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl" - both with the team and with Addy herself.

And then a suspicious suicide hits close to home, and the police investigation focuses on Coach and her squad. As Addy begins to suspect what really happened, the line between right and wrong grows blurrier, and she must decide where her loyalties truly lie-and how far is too far to go for someone you love.

The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut, unflinching exploration of friendship, ambition, and power. Award-winning novelist Megan Abbott, writing with what Tom Perrotta has hailed as "total authority and an almost desperate intensity," provides a harrowing glimpse into the dark heart of the all-American girl.

My Husband Made This

His interview here

Penguin Threads Edition

My Threads Edition for Penguin books.

Hand embroidered.

Hoooray!

My What is the What cover made it into American Illustration 31. Thank you illustration Gods!

All Easter all the Time

Melissa Gilberts new book

a beautiful cover

For the maven at O

The Chaperone

Little Century

Father's Day

O and Denver Mag

O

New work for O / Reading Room

AD: Angela Reichers (she's awesome)
O asks for each illustration to be different stylistically.

The Fates Will Have Their Way

Above image was for a combined review of two detective novels

bruno littlemore

memory palace

a scary book indeed

pictures of you

 

faith

time of wonder / above image used as a  type embellishment

ten thousand saints

 

inzanesville

Rachell Sumpter and Jacob Magraw-Mickelson

Rachell Sumpter and Jacob Magraw-Mickelson

Share Day

There is a now a baby, a new baby, a baby boy, to be precise, a baby boy named Calder, and he is wonderful. There has been a lot of work, I should post all about it- but no, instead I'd like to share some things that I hope transcend my own personal joys.

Things to Say
Jürg Lehni & Alex Rich

Nieves Books

Carta Marina

Almost sunrise in Sweden.

Almost sunset at home.

 

By one of my favorite artist heroines Rutu Modan.

Like lovesick comets launched from the heart of a distant solar system...

...Alec Thibodeau's 2011 Lunar Calendars have plummeted to the earth. 

Preorder at Tiny Showcase.com before Thanksgiving and receive this print too:

Life in L.A.

Joe's giving a show.

“It’s the closing of the book, the slamming of the door, the quenching of the flame. It’s the final handshake, the least welcome visitor, the cruelest joke of all. It can sneak up on you, or reserve its place in advance. It makes you stop and think, makes you wonder, makes you less attractive, makes you a member of an ever-growing majority, the silent majority. It asks for the check before you’ve finished eating, asks for payment in full.”-- Joe Frank from A Death in the Family

It's a bagel thing.

Minister by Joe Frank

Beautiful Modern Book Covers II.