Working with an illustrator

I hope you enjoy this blog entry. It will serve to let you in on the process of writing a children’s book, give some insight into the coming book: Sampson the Super Dog: A Collection of Short Stories, and provide previews of some of the artwork that will appear in the book.

Working on a children’s book is a completely different beast than working on a novel for young adults. You have a lot less time to tell the stories you want to tell. Children are also a lot more visually interested and engaged. Which is why pictures are more important.

I must say, it’s a lot of fun working on a project with an illustrator. The stories are developing ahead of the illustrations necessarily, but the illustrations complete the stories. Essentially in the case of #SampsonTheSuperDog.

The book is kind of like a puzzle that can only be understood in its entirety. Each story and illustration are like pieces of that puzzle. For example, there are things that are talked about in the stories that are only revealed as to what they really are in the illustrations.

I am really enjoying the process and the teamwork with the illustrator. I hope that this won’t be our only project together.

For more glimpses into the work of RE Luebke, check out her comic: OTZI.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/re-luebke/otzi/paperback/product-23783581.html