This book is packed with short stories and poems from authors from all around the world! 
If you enjoy time travel, easy fiction, fantasy, and magical tales, this book is for you.
​Great for reading at bedtime, too, as this book is targeted to 9-12 year olds but can be enjoyed by all ages.

From the book description: Clio, the muse of history, would like to take you on a time-traveling adventure. Go with Clio on a tour of the ages. Visit the Library of Alexandria before it burns down, take a peek at the Eiffel Tower being built, and travel to the Lost City of Atlantis on an important mission. In these stories and poems, you will ride into the future on cutting-edge spaceships, go back and forth via portals and time machines, and even find your way out of a "history mystery" escape room.

This fairy art is made with ink and watercolors. The painting on the left shows a red fairy with a mountain in the background waving to the green fairy on the painting on the left who is in front of a forest. The idea for these two fairies came to me out of the blue. I wanted them to look natural in their environment, but also to be wearing some odd fairy fashion (for fun!).

When I began the picture, I didn't have the firm idea that one fairy would be red, the other green, but as I filled in the color in the ink lines I had made, it occurred to me that the fairies could match some magical mushrooms. Wouldn't it be fun if they each had their own color theme? 

As I added the watercolors, the idea began to take shape. First the green mushrooms (I've never seen these in nature, but I'm sure they could exist somewhere!), then that inspired the red mushrooms. Enjoy the fairy tree stump in the background. Isn't nature beautiful?

Finally, when these were done, I was able to cut some cream colored mats for them to show off their colors to best advantage. This is my first time cutting  mats using a big mat cutter, and it went great! The wide white mat allows the bold vibrancy of the watercolors to stand out.

"Omg they are even more gorgeous in person!!" -Happy Customer

The originals are now sold, but Giclee prints are available.
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Erika’s memoir combined some disparate themes within her book. She shares the horror of a middle school bullying ordeal, the pain from the loss of her beloved grandmother, and her search for meaning and hope as she navigated an early diagnosis of infertility, after a long battle with her own health. As she went through everything, she dropped out of college.

One day Erika posted that she was having trouble with her cover artist, and I could immediately see why; the cover he’d done for her was all wrong. It had a boat done in comic book style, with two hands posing as a picture frame and a star tattoo on the wrist. Nothing about this screamed Erika, let alone the complex story she’d woven together.

​I messaged her about her cover, and her journey finding an artist. One thing led to another and she sent me her manuscript. It was still being edited, so I was one of the few people to read Erika’s story so far. I read it, and I was hooked! 

​We developed the cover to tie together all the themes from her story: she’s wearing a hospital gown with an IV, running to catch the boat that is steaming away from the dock. Above her head are the chaos elements she deals with in her story: the failed report card, the medical scan, a photo of her and her grandmother, and the hourglass referencing her favorite soap opera.

With the cover off to the presses, the book was released early 2024.
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1955989001

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We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Emily St. Marie a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

​Emily , appreciate you making time for us and sharing your wisdom with the community. So many of us go through similar pain points throughout our journeys and so hearing about how others overcame obstacles can be helpful. One of those struggles is keeping creativity alive despite all the stresses, challenges and problems we might be dealing with. How do you keep your creativity alive?

I love the question because it implies that we aren’t inherently creative or non-creative, rather creativity is something you can foster and nourish in yourself and your life. Staying in the creative flow isn’t always easy– I’ve gone through creatively dormant periods of my life, and they were always connected with a sad event or struggle that made me feel down and in turn, less creative.
Getting back into a creative flow was integral to feeling whole and joyful about my existence. But where to start? Do I stare at a blank piece of paper and hope an idea will creatively flow onto it? I would argue that setting myself up for maximum creativity happens long before my writing or art session starts.
The best way I’ve found to keep my creativity alive involves introducing novelty into my day. I do things like taking a different route to the library, reading a book on something I haven’t considered before, talking to a friend on social media about a new subject, or diving into historical archives on a subject I know little about.

#creativity 

I never thought I'd be making kawaii art, but I was looking for fun easy warm up art to do to try my watercolor/ink/gouache technique.

Food with faces is FUN!

Simple lines, bright colors, and fun expressions make this art so delightful to make.

I hope you enjoyed my kawaii art.

The main image on the cover was created with acrylics.

This is the painting that was used as the central image on the fairy novel cover.

Do you have a fairy novel or fantasy book that needs custom art on the cover?
Contact Emily St. Marie.