The End of the World

'Stone Factory'

It happens to us all, some times illustrations are rejected for utterly bizarre reasons (angels don’t have wings or at least right wing protestant ones don’t), and others well maybe it just wasn’t what the design team and editors had in mind. And there’s always the author, utterly unpredictable. Decisions to accept work or reject it can be completely subjective.

You have probably done a great job and the designers love it, then marketing and sales team turn around and say it’s not working for them!

Ahhh being rejected is never good, but it happens to us all.

This illustration by James de la Rue, which I think is completely wonderful, for an American publisher, was rejected with no real explanation. Except they must be completely barmy!

So when it does happen to you, grind your teeth, swear and curse, then realise it’s their loss and get one with the next one, as I used to say to one illustrator, although it’s the end of the world as you know it, it is just a children’s book.

Frances McKay

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