{"id":4171,"date":"2016-10-11T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T06:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2016-10-10T19:53:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T01:53:18","slug":"my-bookpage-chat-with-melissa-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4171","title":{"rendered":"My BookPage<\/em> Chat with Melissa Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly. It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time, waiting to sprout when the conditions are right. … Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.”<\/em>
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\nI’ve got an interview with Melissa Sweet over at BookPage<\/em>. Go, go, go read it if you’re so inclined, because I really enjoyed our phone chat. That is here<\/a><\/strong> over in BookPage<\/em> land. <\/p>\n

We discussed her brand-new biography. It’s called Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2016) — and it’s some<\/em> book. Here at 7-Imp today, I’ve got some studio images and preliminary images from Melissa, as well as a bit of final art (which you can come back and look at when you’re done with the interview). That is below. I thank Melissa for sharing. <\/p>\n


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Pictured above: <\/em>Stuart Little collage in process
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Above: Boathouse image in-progress
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Pictured above: Sketch and final version of a chapter opener<\/em><\/center>
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Pictured above: Studio images<\/em>
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Some final collages from the book<\/em>
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SOME WRITER!: THE STORY OF E. B. WHITE. Copyright \u00a9 2016 by Melissa Sweet. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston. All images here reproduced by permission of Melissa Sweet.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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