the creation process

I am starting something new - the next book.  I've written the story but now to find the right combination of drawing and painting to bring the story to life. Stay tuned.

Amelia Island Book Signing

MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

The Porch Dream (Every Dog Has a Dream...)
Tiffany Ann Laufer
Bellaboo Books.com
9780982008829, $15.99 www.bellaboobooks.com

"The Porch Dream," a popular seller at the Buckeye Book Fair this year, is a dog's (named Bellaboo, Bella for short) poetic dream of saving the earth through recycling adventures. A wonderful fantasy of recycling adventures and dreams of trash-rescuing permeate "The Porch Dream" in all its wonderful colored illustrations. Just how Bella imagines ways to save the world from "packages, parcels and postage, deliveries, drop-offs and more, but dreaming of sheep she also adored..." and including "Egg beaters, buttons, bananas and lamps, cameras, compost, carrots and stamps. Our recycling adventures have made us champs!" Bella's porch dream grows ever more fantastic, and ends with a beautiful bubble vision, Bella awakening to the day on the porch with her friend Colby to find that once again they were indeed saving the day "in various ways." "The Porch Dream" is faithful to its promise and takes dreaming images to a new level in its lovely illustrations and poetry. -MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW MARCH 2010

Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009

By THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Every year since 1952, the Book Review has asked a panel of judges to select 10 books from among the several thousand children’s books published that year. The judges this time around were Adam Gopnik, who writes regularly for The New Yorker and is the author of two novels for children, “The King in the Window” and the forthcoming “Steps Across the Water”; Jillian Tamaki, a teacher at the School of Visual Arts and the recipient of a Society of Illustrators gold medal; and Lisa Von Drasek, the children’s librarian of the Bank Street College of Education.

Come on down to Wooster! the Buckeye Book Fair

This is it - the Buckeye Book Fair - 100 authors/artists from all around Ohio and beyond - ready to tell you some brilliant and beautiful stories. Bring your eager mind and checkbook to shop for all your friends and family. Think of it, you could be done with all your holiday shopping in just one place!

The Porch Dream will be there, come on out and say hi! Meet some new friends!

ps: I designed the POSTER, yahoo!

Book Signing | December 19th 11-1pm | Sunbeam

Get ready for some storytelling, tasty cookies and shopping for a good cause. I shall be reading and signing copies of The Porch Dream at SUNBEAM | A shop for children on Fairmount Blvd. - Sales from Sunbeam go to benefit Vocational Guidance Services In addition, anyone who brings in a doggie or cat related donation for the CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE will receive a discount at the store that day.

This year you can buy a gift and support all local people directly. The Porch Dream was printed in the USA so even there - more home based jobs supported.

The Package Arrived - Layout enclosed

I am almost ready to print THE PORCH DREAM. Yahoo! Crazy cakes! and it's a dream to be saying that as well. Say it again, crazy cakes! From the printer I received four things that have to be approved and then sent back. Here's what I got back - just in case you ever want to do a book, here's what you'll get:

1. Cover

2. Dust jacket (on the far left or above it's the bottom one)

3. Contents - this is not printed to the highest resolution, more for layout and such

4. Layouts of each page printed at the highest resolution.
I checked everything and ended up re-uploading corrected pages and then sent it back to the printer....
upnext...Online proofs and then to the PRESSES WE GO.

I'll let you know when the book arrives!