Happy Friday!! This week my debut book, Queen Quail is Quiet: and other ABC Tongue Twisters was released for e-readers for Kindle and in print and I can’t stop skipping around.
This book teaches the alphabet by illustrating each letter using each sound of every letter. Younger children will learn to associate the colorful letter with the sound and older children will enjoy wrapping their mouths around the funny, tongue-twisting text.
What do you think about a Queen Quail is Quiet giveaway? Here’s the deal:
1) Leave a comment on this post any time between now and 11:59 PM EST May 24 to be entered.
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Queen Quail is Quiet: and other ABC Tongue Twisters came out today for e-readers for Kindle and in print!
Queen Quail is Quiet grew out of my love of learning and drawing. I wanted to be a little different to approaching learning the alphabet. Creating a sentence illustrating each sound for every letter sounded challenging. I started out by thinking of words for the letters and then forming a sentence I could illustrate. Sketching of thumbnail ideas came next and was much easier to do once I realized this would no longer be just a project, but a book. Most of the sketching was just on plain computer paper and once I refined the sketches into final artwork, I scanned in the images onto my computer.
To read more, go to one of my friend’s blogs where I completed guest posts this week. Much thanks to PBJunkies and Charlotte Cooke !!
So you guys, I have pretty big news. I can’t believe I am typing this actually. Means it is really real in a way.
The project I have been talking about forever, is that I have a book coming out. I am PUBLISHED. If you have been a long-time follower, you know I have had a pet alphabet project and it went through many different forms. But now it is going to finally grow up to be a book. Available in print and for e-readers through Amazon.com.
I am so excited.
The book is called Queen Quail is Quiet: and other ABC Tongue Twisters, it is an alphabet book where each letter demonstrates the sound of each letter throughout a sentence. Like, for the letter L the sentence is “Lemon Licks the Lollipop”. I am the author and illustrator.
I hope it makes my baby girl even more interested in reading and I hope it makes its way into your kid lit libraries as well. The book should launch May 15, definitely this month. Here is the link for pre-sale for Kindle.
P.S.
Things came up and I was not able to get pics of our 1/4 full of boxes new home by the deadline of last month. Very soon we will be getting an out of town guest and my bday is around the corner so I won’t say a deadline again. It will just be a surprise. Sorry.
I’m about to burst. In all the hub bub I have failed to mention that a book I’m going to be published in this year, They Draw and Cook, is available for pre-order! It’s an illustrated cookbook by a huge and talented group of folks, including moi. I’m honored and want to see it in person, so excited.
Here is a little video flipping through the pages, aaaahhhh! Love it when dreams come true.
This is my attempt for the theme of Afterwards for Illustration Friday and it is also an entry for 52 Designs. Not only do these birds have good news, I have good news too! My recipe illustration for They Draw and Cook has been picked for publishing! So excited to have it included.
That was one of my goals for this year, to be published, so I can’t stop pinching myself lately.
*whoops, I put “digital and graphic” in I-Fri but this is watercolor and ink.
