After the disappointment with the first illustrator [read earlier blog here], a couple of months went by before the urge to publish the Sound Stories picture books starting niggling at me again. Barbara's blog continues ...
As well as putting books together and arranging printing for self-publishers, Little Steps also provides a list of illustrators with their portfolios.
From this I contacted Sarah Hardy who was very enthusiastic about Sound Stories and was prepared to commit herself to my work on a daily
basis until it was completed.
Sarah and I shared similar visions to marry her illustrations with my stories and from the finished books this is very much in evidence. Contracts were
signed and we got to work.
After doing this, I recommend lots of discussion amongst the students about what they see, followed by encouraging them to create their own storylines
for the illustrations.
To get started, I sent the manuscript for the stories for the first book, The Bolton Boys' Balloon Adventure and other stories to Sarah. She began by sketching
her ideas in pencil and sending them to Abby, our editor at Little Steps, and to me.
We all met at Little Steps to talk about the project, and while this wasn't necessary, it gave us a chance to get to know one another, which I think was
valuable in creating a cohesive working team.
The process for the first story was repeated for each of the 12 stories in the book. Sarah then submitted her final, very precious artwork to Angel at
Little Steps who put it all together and sent it back to us for more consideration.
I also had a lot of author work to do, providing the contents page, the pages with information at the front of the books for parents and teachers and the
text on the front and back covers of all four books.
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