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It's been awhile since our last update as we've just been getting through the illustration phase. But now we are in the exciting part of book design. We are working with the wonderful Tobi Carter to assemble the book, finalize image placement, pick out fonts, and get everything formatted for the printers. There's a lot involved with formatting. Specific designs layouts for the printers and different than those for on-demand printing (if we every chose to do a softcover) and different from e-book, so we need multiple versions of the book prepared for every eventuality. But hopefully we will be...

Well we are continuing to work very hard on The Doggy Doctor. New illustrations are flowing in every week. We are aiming to get two pages illustrated weekly, which will put us on target to get everything to the book designer at the end of June/beginning of July.The process has been great so far. When I wrote the book, I had some very concrete ideas of illustrations for certain pages and then absolutely no idea for others. I gave Chennon a list of the spread and what my ideas were and she has just run with it! Every week I...

This post is coming just a little later than I'd hoped, but with everything going on in the world, I think everyone has been a bit distracted. We are through the editing stage, and that means illustrations are next. A picture book is nothing without good illustrations.It takes a lot to find an illustrator who has the same vision as you. I spent hours searching Instagram for and . I queried the members of the Facebook children's book writer/illustrator pages and had dozens of people send me their portfolios. I also sent a message to a Facebook group called Vetsy,...

The story may have only taken less than two weeks to write, but tearing it apart and building it back up takes a bit longer. Who would have thought there would be so much editing and review on a 750-word story. At first I though, well if Word isn't underlining everything in red to grab my attention, I'm good right? Not quite...I spent a lot of time reading through publishing blogs, facebook groups and other online resources, and if there's one thing they agree on, it's get an editor. And they're right. I read it a million times and there...

I'm sure this website is premature, and probably very few people other than me will be looking at it for some time. I mean, come on, it's a website for a book that doesn't exist yet. I tend to get a little hyperfocused when I get excited about something - so the unfinished book already has an imprint with its own logo, a website, a Facebook page and an Instagram account.So, how did this all come about. Well, I'm a veterinarian. I have a house full of animals. I also have two little girls, 2 and 3 1/2 years old,...