šøšIT'S HERE!!!ššøHAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY! A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice is out today from Bloomsbury and is debuting at #1 in Picture Book Biographies!!! This was an absolute dream projectāa bucket list project, even. Thanks to author Jasmine A. Stirling and Bloomsbury for bringing me on to illustrate this unique look at Janeāthe books she read as a child and how she felt about them, her "juvenalia"āthe witty and intelligent works of her childhood, and how struggle and loss shaped and matured her and her writing.ā
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Stay tunedāeach and every day through April 30, Iāll be posting a behind-the-scenes look at my illustration process for A Most Clever Girl, including my research trip and on-site sketches as I followed in Jane's footsteps in Hampshire, UK.ā ā
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A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice, written by Jasmine A. Stirling, illustrated by Vesper Stamper (Bloomsbury, 2021), available wherever you love to buy booksāespecially your local indie: https://bookshop.org/books/a-most-clever-girl-how-jane-austen-discovered-her-voice/9781547601103
This was honestly one of my favorite pieces of the year to work on. If you'd like to get your hands on this special illustrated edition of Nicholas Kotar's novella Son of the Deathless, you can get it through our Kickstarter here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1402845448/jolabokaflod-christmas-book-flood-in-a-box
We're so grateful that we were fully funded in about 4 hours, so there are new perks opening up for everyone! We're almost at our 3rd stretch goal, which is very exciting. Go on over and choose your level!
My husband Ben is creating a series of short book trailers for BERLINERS, and I swear, each one is better than the last! Here's the first! Feel free to share on your social media!
This isn't the official trailer, but I wanted to talk about how the idea for Berliners came to me. You can pre-order at https://bookshop.org/books/berliners-9780593428375/9780593428368 and, you know, that other place that starts with an "A".
Hi all,
Since I haven't been as active on here as in the past, I'm going to officially disband this Locals community. If you'd like to stay tuned with my work, the best way to do that is via my email newsletter. Just go to https://vesperillustration.com and at the bottom of every single page there is a newsletter signup. I don't send a ton of mail, just important updates like appearances and new projects. Let's see if I come back in the future, but for now, if you've been a supporter, feel free to end your support and stay in touch via the newsletter or Instagram (@vesperillustration). Thanks to all of youānothing's over, just paused!
Vesperisms Community, dears:
I'm so excited to announce today that I am doing a collaboration with fantasy author Nicholas Kotar (the Raven Son series, and the fabulous fairy tale/fantasy podcasts In a Certain Kingdom and Fantasy for Our Time).
The dead will rise. The living will fall. The Deathless will reign...
This collaboration is a very special edition of Kotar's novella, Son of the Deathless, available in hardcover with illustrations by none other than Yours Trulyājust in time for the Holidays! Here's an illustration in progress to whet your appetite.
With book design by Graphic and Surface Designer for film and television, Heather Pollington (Harry Potter, Malificent, Marvel, and more.), this is going to be a beautiful, gift-worthy edition that will be perfect for yourself or for your holiday giving. Son of the Deathless is one of those cozy winter reads that you want to pair with a warm beverage, a blanket and a crackling fire.
So how does one obtain this ...
