I want to thank the nice people at the blog “5 Minutes for Books”, especially Lauren, for writing such a wonderful review of my picture book “Greetings from Kiwi and Pear.” They even gave away a free copy of my book to one lucky reader! It made my day to know that it made her [...]

I just got back from the Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas! It was a huge success in terms of the response and feedback I received and the number of prospective clients and agents that I met. Now the “real” work begins! I’ll talk a little more later about my overall thoughts on the show when I’ve [...]

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m taking my Kiwi and Pear characters to the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas. I’m heading out this Sunday to setup for the show which doesn’t start until Tuesday. I’ve exhibited at the show a couple of years ago but at that time i think it was a [...]

“Greetings from Kiwi and Pear” is finally available on the web! Here are the direct links to places where you can find it:
Chronicle Books
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Borders
So exciting!!!

It was so exciting to see my book in the Chronicle Books booth along with all the other books at the New York Gift Fair a couple of weeks ago – it was almost surreal! It’s fun to think that I met my publisher at this very show just a year ago. I got some [...]

I received advance copies of my book yesterday and it looks fantastic! I had asked my publisher for some copies to display in my booth where I will be showing and selling my greeting card and gift products at the New York International Gift Fair which starts this week. Hopefully, I can direct some traffic [...]

Happy (belated) New Year! Things over at Wanart have been pretty busy as we start preparing for the Year of the Ox which starts on January 26. I have also been working on a couple of new book dummies including one about Kiwi and Pear going to outer space! Here are some sketches from the dummy:

Here are scanned pages from the catalog showing the Greetings from Kiwi and Pear book and the Travel Flash Cards!
(Greetings from Kiwi and Pear – left side of spread) “Travel around the world with Kiwi and Pear! – Kiwi and Pear are a pair of monkeys who do everything together, and now they’re off on [...]

Welcome to the Kiwi and Pear blog where you will find the latest news along with information pertaining to the highly-anticipated Kiwi and Pear book “Greetings from Kiwi and Pear” which is coming out in Spring of 2009! Here are some concept sketches I did for the book dummy before taking the book to finish: