Books

I've created two Kindle books using public domain works, The Sea-Wolf by Jack London and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, respectively. Each feature original illustrations. They were originally going to be solely for Kindle, but Amazon prompted me to publish physical copies.

Their process for publishing physical copies is very opaque, and doesn't work well. As such, a link for the physical copy of The Sea-Wolf is here, with the wrong Kindle link attached to it. The link for the Kindle version of The Sea-Wolf is here, with the wrong physical copy linked.

I still haven't been able to get the physical copy of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle cleared, for reasons that remain a mystery, but the Kindle version is available here with some random physical copy.

The Sea-Wolf by Jack London is an American literature classic. Although most-known for his Alaska and dog-related works, such as White Fang, Call of the Wild, and To Build a Fire, Jack London did many stories about sailing the Pacific. This sea-faring voyage tale features a battle of wills between a humanistic, pacifistic, passive Humphrey Van Wyden and the ruthlessly individualistic, Nietzschean Captain Wolf Larsen. This adaptation contains an original drawing at the beginning of each chapter. I'd been looking at classic comic book cover art and wanted to work on a variety of cover compositions under the heading of one project. Soon to be available on Kindle and Gumroad (hopefully... although I've been having some trouble with both).

I designed the front and back cover for the print edition formatted to the Amazon print-on-demand designation.

In adapting the digital book version to a printed version, a number of changes had to be made. Formatting, back cover material, and because a 400+ page book in all color but only using 39 color images is cost-prohibitive, while the cover used the original color templates, the images inside the book were transitioned from color to black and white.

Here are a few images I made out of the process. You know, for fun.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle are classic short stories by Washington Irving. This version contains original illustrations. It's a project I created in 2013, and is available at Amazon.com. The text itself is public domain, but the art is original work, and the packaging is unique. I wanted to see what it the Kindle marketplace looked like as a venue for publishing smaller works.

Same process as above, transitioning the color to black and white.

Author proof is my only proof.

In 2014 I illustrated a book proposal written by my friend, Emily Winter, for Barnes & Noble. The deal fell through when there was a change of editors, but the book, How to be a Girlfriend, was going to be a tween-centered instructional guide full of tips on how to handle your first real relationship. What to look for, what's healthy, what not healthy, what to expect. It was cute.