The Postcard Post Old Home Week: Jennifer Thermes and Hazel Mitchell

From time to time I see a new postcard made by an illustrator who in the past shared a postcard, tips, advice and more on The Postcard Post. Even better, I hear about lots of good things going on out there. So the new “Postcard Post Old Home Week” will be a recurring post to catch up and see some more illustrator postcard promotions — that never gets old!

Today we’ll see what author/illustrators Jennifer Thermes and Hazel Mitchell have been up to.

Jennifer Thermes:
“I’m happy to say that a lot of good things have happened since the Postcard Post interview in May 2013. Most recently, LITTLE AUTHOR IN THE BIG WOODS, A BIOGRAPHY OF LAURA INGALLS WILDER by Yona Zeldis McDonough (Holt/Christy Ottaviano Books) has just been released! It was a girlhood dream come true to be able to illustrate this book. Also, I signed with a fantastic agent at the end of 2013, and am thrilled to say that we now have a two-book deal with Abrams Books for Young Readers for a picture book biography about Charles Darwin’s voyage around the world (with maps!). The best advice I can give anyone is what I tell myself every day– work hard at your craft and stay positive. It’s really the only thing within your control.

Here’s a postcard I sent out this summer– when I was dreaming of being at the beach!”

Wow! What spectacular news. And I love Jennifer’s advice to stay positive.
Links to more of Jennifer’s work:
Website: http://www.jenniferthermes.com
Blog: http://art-words-life.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jenthermes

And if you missed Jennifer’s Postcard Post interview, click here.

Hazel Mitchell:
Since Hazel’s Postcard Post she has signed with agent Ginger Knowlton at Curtis Brown in New York. She has sold her first book as author/illustrator, TOBY to Liz Bicknell at Candlewick Press and it will be out in the fall 2016.

Two books illustrated by Hazel books released this fall: F IS FOR FEELINGS by Lisa Millar from Free Spirit Publishing and IMANI’S MOON by JaNay Brown Wood from Charlesbridge Publishing.

Hazel is currently working on illustrations for three books for 2015: ANIMALLY by Lynn Sutton for Kane Miller Books;  WHERE DO FAIRIES GO WHEN IT SNOWS? by Liza Gardener-Walsh from Down East; and KENYA’S ART by Linda Trice from Charlesbridge Publishing.

And that’s not all! Hazel won some awards too! 1, 2, 3 BY THE SEA was on the Bank Street Best Children’s Books for 2014 and she won a Bronze Award for Chidlren’s Books from Society of Illustrator’s of Los Angeles Illustration West52.

Hazel has had quite a year!
Links to more of Hazel’s work:
Website: www.hazelmitchell.com
Blog: www.hazelmitchell.blogspot.com
Sketchblog: www.lookbackincandour.wordpress.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HazelMitchellBooks
Twitter: @hazelgmitchell

And if you missed Hazel’s Postcard Post interview, click here.

Contrary to the traditional Old Home Week that occurs once a year, we will have them as often as possible. Sub It Club loves illustrator postcard self-promotions and good news of all types!