Illustration by James Galindo

*posted with the illustrator's permission.

Isn't this GORGEOUS? (Click on it to see a larger version)

When you go to the workshop, one of the things you do is meet the illustrator who did the work for your story. James Galindo is a California artist whose focus is actually fine art, but he also does some amazingly lovely illustrations. (If you scroll down about halfway, you can see James' winning entries from the contest.) Looking at those, you can see that his work with action shots is excellent.

In the illustration above, he's caught one of the scenes in the story where....well, you can tell exactly what's going on, I think. He did a wonderful job of capturing the characters in the story, (quite a challenge when one knows that I don't describe a great deal) as well as the mood of it. I couldn't be more stoked about my illustration! (And I already have the black and white version up on my office wall)

Thanks, James!