The End of Something Wonderful by Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic

Q It must be amazing for an author to see the visuals come to life.Ī It really is.

I had a list ready to go, and Vashti was at the top of my list. But when my editors asked me if I had any ideas of who might want to illustrate my book. Sometimes there is communication between author and illustrator, but frequently the publishing industry just feels it’s better to keep us separate. Then the illustrator works separately from the author. The editor then goes and finds the illustrator. The way picture books work is that an author writes the text and sells it to an editor. Q What was it like working together with Vashti Harrison on the book?Ī It’s been wonderful. I look at it often when I am to the point again of just giving up. I’m done.” So, yes, the same son made a heart out of paper and had written on it, “You write really, really, really good books.

I had gotten a rejection from an agent that I actually thought was going to be a more positive situation and I was so devastated that I said, “That’s it. Q That was right around the same time that you almost gave up writing books, right? Then Henry helped convince you to do otherwise?Ī I didn’t have an agent at the time and was sending out a lot of queries to agents and getting a lot of rejections. That night, I sat down and wrote the first draft of “Hello, Star.” (I) wondered what a child would do with that feeling. I was just starting to write picture books - picking up ideas from everywhere - and I thought about that empathetic thought that he had, that feeling of love or empathy or sadness for an inanimate object.

The End of Something Wonderful by Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic