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Bios and Statements and Resumes, Oh my!

Kristine Poole

"Well, young lady...Explain yourself.” I'm standing next to a sculpture in one of my first important solo shows. A collector had flown in to see this piece in person at the opening and decided to purchase it. A few days later, her husband came to town to see the work and wanted to meet me. Dressed in my best "artist attire," I show up an hour early and wait, trying to keep the butterflies in…

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Interior Illustrations – To Green Angel Tower

Donato Giancola

January 14, 2026 - These past few years I have had the honor to interpret a classic fantasy trilogy from the 1990's, Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series for Grim Oak Press. This trilogy culminates in the final massive tome To Green Angel Tower, and is so large it has historically been published as two volumes due to issues around binding that many pages in one book. Luckily for me as an illustrator tackling this project, it meant that the amount of artwork for that 'third book' would be doubled to 12 images, compared to the first two books with 6 each. Each tome would have 6 interior full color plates as well as signature page title illustrations. Given the freedom, trust and time Shawn Speakman and Jeff Larson, the publishers of Grim Oak Press, gave to me,…

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