Comments on: Tell Me a Dragon

By: jackie

jackie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:50:01 +0000

Indeed we do. I fear that so many publishers these days lack something called imagination and are happy happy happy to follow trends, little understanding that there is only so much room on the bookshelves for vampire books. Vampires are the new schools for wizards, or so it would seem. Anyway, fortunately for me Frances Lincoln appreciate my whimsy, if not my utter and total inability to meet a deadline. After I finish The Ice Bear I will be working on a book of nursery rhymes and hope to pack as much detail and whimsy into the book as I can manage and, hopefully, produce really sophisticated images for very young children. Fingers crossed.
Then again, maybe not fingers crossed, makes it too difficult to paint!

By: Tasha

Tasha — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:17:51 +0000

Thank you so much for writing! I hope there is always a place for whimsy, wandering and wondering in the marketplace. If not, we need a new marketplace!

By: jackie

jackie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:16:19 +0000

Thanks so much for this.
I was looking through some of my rejection letters earlier today that said that the book was too whimsical for the current market and lacking in narrative drive. I want to make books that are gateways into the imagination, where the person holding the book is the most important element. In my imagination each dragon has its own story, and a few things to say about their person. And now I have a small dragon in my head demanding its own book. The little dragon on the title page came very late to the book, and now he wants his own story. Together we might just find it.
Bless you and bless your dragons too.