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Boskone Schedule!

This is my first year attending Boskone in Boston on Feb 15-17,and my first time leading an illustration workshop, which will be taking place on Sunday!Here is my final schedule! Come say hi!The Art of Drawing AliensFormat: Panel16 Feb 2019, Saturday 14:00 - 14:50, Marina 1 (Westin)Imagining and drawing wonderfully weird aliens ... what works? What about drawing aliens by design, using instructions from others such as an excerpt from a novel?Frank Wu (qarlo999@hotmail.com), Christopher Paniccia (Gridiron Publishing) (cpaniccia@bridge-rayn.org), Jim Burns (jim_burns@blueyonder.co.uk), Cat Scully (Haverhill House Publishing) (M) (catherinescully.writer@gmail.com), Bob Eggleton (zillabob@cox.net)Drawing to Order (and Editing Art)Format: Panel16 Feb 2019, Saturday 16:00 - 16:50, Marina 2 (Westin)Professional artists tell tales of the perils of working when the call they're responding to is from the art director instead of the muse. Artists receive concepts from the client, and get to work. At what point does the artist bring the product back to the client for "edits"? Is this even the right term? How far into the creative process can you go before changes are no longer productive? When does an artist go back to the drawing board?Reiko Murakami (raqmoful@gmail.com), Bob Eggleton (zillabob@cox.net), Cat Scully (Haverhill House Publishing) (M) (catherinescully.writer@gmail.com), Jonathan Hunt (huntillustration@comcast.net)Autographing: Theodora Goss, D.B. Jackson, Cindy Pon, Cat ScullyFormat: Autographing16 Feb 2019, Saturday 17:00 - 17:50, Galleria - Autographing (Westin)David B. Coe/ D.B. Jackson (davidbcoeauthor@gmail.com), Cindy Pon (pon.cindy@gmail.com), Cat Scully (Haverhill House Publishing) (catherinescully.writer@gmail.com), Theodora Goss (tgoss@bu.edu)Horror Character DesignFormat: Panel17 Feb 2019, Sunday 10:00 - 10:50, Marina 2 (Westin)Horror artists have the uncanny ability to inspire us with their frightful, delightful creations. What goes into visually representing a spine-chilling prose character? What do viewers look for? What works and what doesn’t? Why are we drawn to (and haunted by) these eerie images? And which creepy characters do we love and fear the most?Cat Scully (Haverhill House Publishing) (catherinescully.writer@gmail.com), Reiko Murakami (raqmoful@gmail.com), Grady Hendrix (M) (grady@gradyhendrix.com), Jonathan Hunt (huntillustration@comcast.net), Frank Wu (qarlo999@hotmail.com)Drawing Magical CreaturesFormat: Children - DragonsLair17 Feb 2019, Sunday 11:00 - 11:50, Galleria - Dragonslair (Westin)Boskone kids learn the art of drawing amazing magical creatures with artist Cat Scully.Cat Scully (Haverhill House Publishing) (M) (catherinescully.writer@gmail.com), Persis Thorndike (Westat) (persis@thorndike.name)

Featured in Voyage ATL Magazine!

I was part of a series of interviews highlighting female trailblazers around the Atlanta area! I talk about maps, my books, and how every female I've met in the publishing industry has inspired me to keep going."The editorial team has a special attachment to our new series, The Trailblazers: Rewriting the Narrative, because so many of us feel that media portrayals of women have been too one dimensional. Today, women are doing incredible things in all fields – from science and technology to finance, law, business, athletics and more. With the Trailblazers series, we hope to highlight and celebrate female role models, encourage more equal and just representation in the media, and help foster a more tight-knit community locally helping women find mentors, business partners, friends and more." "The editorial team has a special attachment to our new series, The Trailblazers: Rewriting the Narrative, because so many of us feel that media portrayals of women have been too one dimensional. Today, women are doing incredible things in all fields – from science and technology to finance, law, business, athletics and more. With the Trailblazers series, we hope to highlight and celebrate female role models, encourage more equal and just representation in the media, and help foster a more tight-knit community locally helping women find mentors, business partners, friends and more."http://voyageatl.com/interview/meet-t...

National Dark Poetry Day!

I was asked to do the art for National Dark Poetry Day with the Horror Writers Association and it was such an honor to draw Edgar Allan Poe. To celebrate the day, I'm offering 20% off both on my print shop here and my etsy store, both using the MOVING20 discount until 10/7/2018.

Map Giveaway! GIVE THE DARK MY LOVE

I did a map for Beth Revis' GIVE THE DARK MY LOVE coming out in September with Penguin Razorbill and you can get my map if you preorder from malaprop's. I feel so grateful for this project and getting to work on it. If you'd like to have a poster copy, please consider pre-ordering from Malaprop's book stores in Asheville, North Carolina.

Map Giveaway! ALL THE WANDERING LIGHT

Heather Fawcett is doing a giveaway for pre-orders of ALL THE WANDERING LIGHT, sequel to EVEN THE DARKEST STARS. I loved this book and I'm excited for my map to be part of her campaign!Information on how to enter can be found over on twitter by signing up for her newsletter and following the instructions! https://twitter.com/heathermfawcett/status/987002092052135937

Map Giveaway! BRUJA BORN

The brilliant Zoraida Cordova has announced the release of the BRUJA BORN map, the sequel to LABYRINTH LOST! It was such a pleasure to be invited back and to work with the incredible Sourcebooks team on this. I had an absolute blast! Zoraida is offering a giveaway of the map as part of pre-ordering BRUJA BORN. This serious is incredible. The book cover is gorgeous. I was lucky enough to get to bring Brooklyn to life.If you'd like to enter, details are over on her newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/015b3798b984/zoraidaland-12-do-you-want-to-see-the-bruja-born-map

Map Giveaway! NOTHING LEFT TO BURN

Heather Ezell is offering up an awesome pre-order giveaway of the map I created of her upcoming novel, NOTHING LEFT TO BURN! You can enter to win a copy and all kinds of other goodies over on her blog! This is one of the coolest giveaway prize packs I've ever seen. You don't want to miss out. And don't forget to pre-order NOTHING LEFT TO BURN! http://heatherezell.com/pre-order-giveaway/

Serpent's Secret Map Now a Book Trailer at Scholastic!

First news of 2018!Scholastic has released their book trailer for THE SERPANT'S SECRET, which features the map I made for Sayantani DasGupta. It's being shown in book fairs across the country.I'm so thankful to Sayantani and Brent Taylor for hiring me for this project and for this special book!ADD THE SERPENT'S SECRET BY SAYANTANI DASGUPTA TO GOODREADS