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The Life of Chuck

Gregory Manchess

Lately I’ve been illustrating classic novels for special handmade editions. One publishing house I’ve worked with is Arete Editions in the UK. I’ve worked with the publisher, Marcelo Anciano, for twenty years and we love to discuss books and publishing and writing when working together. It’s from one of those conversations that he offered me the chance to illustrate Stephen King’s mild ghost story, The Life of Chuck. Marcelo also works on books and interior…

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The Creative Safe Space

Vanessa Lemen

May 22, 2025 - What is a creative safe space to you? To me, this is a place to make time for exploration, to venture into uncharted territory in order to learn about something we don’t know, to see more clearly what we do know, and that there is always room to expand upon that knowing and learning. This is a space for new directions, to acknowledge what got us to this point and look to that with gratitude for having known what that has given us, taught us, and how it’s helped us grow. This is a moment to take for ourselves to create something to see what shows up, and in the doing of that, we see that there is a forever space where the story shifts and we can always come back here to see ourselves…

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