I had of course already written a young fiction book about Victoria Stitch but I wasn’t very pleased with it. One of the publishers spotted these and said how they thought Victoria Stitch would work well as a young fiction book.Ĭould Victoria Stitch work as Young Reader book? Inside my portfolio I had a page of my Victoria Stitch pen and ink drawings all done in black and pink. I took my portfolio to London and showed it around. But she was always there at the back of my mind! And occasionally, when I had time, I would work on her.Īfter I got married in 2014, my agent organised some meetings for me with a couple of publishers as I was hoping to get some extra work now that my wedding was over. I was busy with other work so Victoria Stitch didn’t get a lot of attention for a while. Victoria Stitch after university – Round twoĪt the end of my MA I got a book deal for I am a Witch’s Cat and then I got an agent. I loved the new black-and-pink aesthetic for Victoria Stitch. The black and pink aesthetic was one I really loved. I was really pleased with how this looked. Naturally by this time she had changed yet again! I now drew her with pen and ink in a slightly looser style, and only in black and pink. However, to accompany the young fiction book I created some more illustrations of Victoria Stitch. I was pleased with it after I finished writing it, but rereading it later I could see it is far from publishable. (For context, Isadora Moon books are about 6,000 words, while most adult novels are 60-80,000 words). This is actually a 65,000 word young fiction book. When I was studying my MA, I wrote Victoria Stitch number three.
Pink Rabbit is having a nice time for once, eating ice cream! Victoria Stitch after universityĪfter my degree I continued to work on Victoria Stitch in my spare time. This was one of my favourite Victoria Stitch images from the book I created on my degree. I was pleased with this book at the time and I showed it to quite a few publishers, but I was always told that Victoria Stitch was too mean, too adult, too spiky for a children’s picture book. Poor Pink Rabbit! (He is much happier with Isadora Moon now but shh don’t tell Victoria Stitch that!) You can see she was still quite an angry, spiky, mean character – because that’s just who she was by then. Victoria Stitch evolved over time into this second incarnation. I had cured myself of the pink hair phase (by dying my own hair pink for a while and then getting bored with it) so Victoria Stitch had also got bored of the pink hair! (Obviously I’m back to loving the pink hair now!) She now had black hair and, instead of traditional fairy wings, she had black bat-like wings. By that point she had changed quite a bit and grown with me. Three years later, on my degree, I redid my Victoria Stitch book. I ended up writing and illustrating a picture book about her on my foundation course for my final project. She was (and still is) very special to me. So I channelled all these energies into Victoria Stitch and she became like my alter-ego.
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Well, I was a teenager! I also remember feeling very free and excited during that period in my life. Personality-wise she was a mean, dramatic character, probably because I was feeling quite angsty at the time. Victoria Stitch combined my love of fairies with my love of Gothic style The Character of Victoria Stitch …And so Victoria Stitch was born, along with her Pink Rabbit sidekick. Especially if it was juxtaposed with something sweet. Everything I drew/owned had to be a fairy. I had pictures of cupcakes stuck all over my walls. I was obsessed by the idea of having pink hair. Alternative people who I had discovered on myspace – especially girls with pink hair.I was eighteen at the time and I remember the kinds of things that inspired me back then: The story of Isadora Moon begins with Victoria Stitch She was a naughty fairy type creature and she had a pink rabbit who went everywhere with her. She first came into being during my Art Foundation course ten years ago. That name may sound familiar if you’ve checked out my Blogspot. Victoria Stitch is one of my favourite character I have ever created. The story of Isadora Moon begins with a character called Victoria Stitch. I can’t believe there are now six Isadora Moon books available! The story of Isadora Moon starts about ten years ago! It seems like a good time to retell the story of Isadora Moon and how she came to be.
I can’t believe there now are six books in the Isadora Moon series. It’s only four days until Isadora Moon goes on a School Trip is officially out. What is the story of Isadora Moon’s creation?
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