"How Great Children's Books are Born" - Salon.com

Back in 2007, my boyfriend handed me the first book in the Griffin and Sabine trilogy (see Nick Bantock's thoughts here). 


In 2008, that same boyfriend and I started our own word-and-image correspondences, sending postcard stories and illustrations back and forth between Chicago and Tuscaloosa, AL. 


Then, in 2010 that collaboration became Flying House. 


Today the beautiful Erin Morris (our bookbinder for anthology #1), introduced me to yet another glorious correspondence piece, featured over at Salon.com, "How Great Children's Books are Born: A collection reproduces the colorful correspondence between illustrator Edward Gorey and author Peter F. Neumeyer." 


It's amazing. 


Here is a taste of their collaboration: 

©The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust, courtesy Pomegranate (pomegranate.com). 

©The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust, courtesy Pomegranate (pomegranate.com).

©The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust, courtesy Pomegranate (pomegranate.com).

And those are only the envelopes! 


Everything was handwritten. I hope my now-husband (same guy as above) was right when he said he thought there would be a backlash from technology; that people would start putting pen to paper once again. I hope the closing of Borders means Mom-and-Pop shops will gain sales (it's crazy how hard it is to find a bookshop in the city these days!). 


I hope the written word continues in ink -- accompanied by pretty pictures. 


The book, "Floating Worlds," is available through Pomegranate Press.