The Art of Shawna Apps
If you haven’t heard yet, the fourth book in the The Adventures of Boathouse Mouse is now available!!!! I have the honor and privilege of illustrating this book series with my friend and talented author, RV Hodge. You may have noticed this book took a really, really long time to come out. In the four […]
Did you guys see that RV revealed the cover of The Wrong Direction on his blog a couple weeks ago? Here it is! I think it’s my favorite cover so far, but then again, I say that with each book. However, I can’t say that book 3 is my favorite overall in the series anymore, but that’s […]
Remember how I had three people ask me about Boathouse prints at the AppleUmpkin Festival? Well, now I can say that I have two designs available with more on their way soon! For RV’s birthday, I worked on designing a couple prints for him as part of his gift. It wasn’t as easy as I had […]
Can I let you guys in on a little secret? I hate public speaking. Okay, so maybe hate is too strong of a word….how about I thoroughly dislike public speaking? Being in front of people and having them look at me gives me the heebie jeebies. I break out into splotchy hives under my neck […]
Back in November, a woman from my church approached RV and me about buying Boathouse books for a preschool class that she helps to teach. They were going to be doing an author/illustrator unit, and would love to use Boathouse as their featured book. It was exciting to hear that a school was going to be using […]
Did you see RV’s Boathouse’s announcement this past weekend? I’m busy working on Boathouse Book 2, but progress isn’t always going smoothly… * – Text is blurry because…well…spoilers 😉
Hey everyone! I’ve been getting a lot of questions about Boathouse, and I thought I’d but together a FAQ blog post or two answering them: How do you know RV? How did this come about? RV is actually the dad of one of my good friends. I’d worked with him on a smaller project before […]
The Adventures of Boathouse Mouse is a children’s book series created by author RV Hodge. I have the honor and privilege of being the illustrator for the series and help bring Boathouse and his friends to life! One of my favorite parts about illustrating is getting to go into schools and share what it’s like […]
I’ve had a lot of people ask me how Book 1 is coming along and when the expected release date is going to be now that we’re past our original target of September. My answer? It’s coming soon! We’ve run into some bumps in the road: All of the final drawings took a lot longer […]
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