Illustrations and adventures at Red Creek Ranch

It finally happened. The author (represented by 1/2 of himself) has matured to try to illustrate a new work on his own.

Here we wrote that we have started work on an adventure story for children and youth. So, the main and best news of this Thursday is that the story is over! There are 7.5 author's sheets in it, which corresponds to about 180-200 pages of an ordinary A5 book. The previous working title - recall, it sounded like "The Mystery of the Straw Ravine" - was changed to "Adventures at the Red Creek Ranch", the book received a "historical reference" and - this is the second important news - an illustrated edition project. and this time the author decided to take a chance and illustrate the book on his own.

The book will appear on the Reader after completing the illustrations and final editing.

What will the story be about?

About friendship. About the complicated story of a bill of sale for a gold-bearing piece of land. About secrets and mysterious disappearances - people, papers, even, suddenly, rabbits caught in a snare. A little bit about mysticism and mysteries and strange. But mostly it's about summer, the adventures of two teenagers, about love for their native land, for animals, for their family, and about the free wind in your hair - the one when you're only twelve, and summer is almost a separate big life. Especially - a summer spent not in a stuffy and boring city. Such is the story - and we present to your attention illustrations, as well as a sketch of the cover - and this is not all the drawings that will decorate the book!

And finally - after this teenage edition, we are planning several stories for children, 6+ These fairy tales will be called "Mr. Coyote and Mr. Raccoon", and they will, as you might guess, be about friendship, of course.

Stay tuned!

And the illustrations - here they are. We hope you will like both the story and the drawings!