Paint With Me & Chat About Fantasy Worldbuilding

The drawing and painting process for the front cover of my upcoming book, The Flame That Sings! Voiced over with a chat about how I go about worldbuilding for the Eternal Library Series, and ending with some thoughts about why we shouldn't feel guilty about making and sharing art during difficult times.

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Bookbinding
A Degree of Mastery by Annie Tremmel Wilcox
The Medieval Scriptorium by Sara J. Charles
Bookbinding and Conservation: A Sixty-Year Odyssey of Art and Craft by Don Etherington

Materials
Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
Almost Lost Arts by Margaret Shepherd, Narayan Khandekar, Emily Freidenrich
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St. Clair

Library and Reading History
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
Patience & Fortitude by Nicholas A. Basbanes
The Madman’s Library by Edward Brooke-Hitching
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells
The Library Book by Susan Orlean

PNW Natural History
Tahoma and its People by Jeff Antonelis-Lapp
Cascade-Olympic Natural History by Daniel Mathews
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast by Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon

Folktales
The Classic Fairy Tales edited by Maria Tatar
An Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales
Animal Folk tales of Britain and Ireland
The Deetkatoo: Native American Stories about Little People by John Bierhorst
The Watkins Book of English Folktales by Neil Philip

Science Fiction History/Fan Culture
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee

Cults
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
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Internet/Computer History
The Innovators by Walter Isaacson

How-To Guides
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The Papermaker’s Companion by Helen Heibert
Respect the Spindle by Abby Franquemont
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