Seal upon thine Heart

[lindahoyland]

I recently wrote a sequel to "Stranger at the Gates" for my friend, Julia's birthday.

Much to my delight I have been given permission by Rachel to use her beautiful artwork to illustrate the story.

You can read it here and see the illustrations.

It is a dream come true to have artwork for a story!

http://lindahoyland.yolasite.com/seal-upon-thine-heart.php

Wishing all my friends here a very Happy Easter.

Comments

[mrowe.livejournal.com]

I must admit I briefly lost concentration at His shoulders were broad and well muscled, his belly flat without an ounce of surplus flesh, while his limbs were long and graceful. A few fading bruises marred the beauty of his form. Only a dusting of hair across the broad chest proclaimed him as Man rather than Elf, so Elven-fair was Aragorn. and She wanted to trace her fingers across his chest and feel his muscles ripple against her fingertips, but this is a lovely retelling of the meeting on Cerin Amroth:) especially with including Galadriel's thoughts on it all, which we get to see all too rarely.

[juliaaurelia.livejournal.com]

The illustrations are beautiful and go perfectly with the story!

[someplacetobe.livejournal.com]

I'm going to comment later on the actual story but, right now, I"m making chocolate brownies! This, though, caught my eye:
It is a dream come true to have artwork for a story!

Yes, it is a dream come true and a tremendous thrill when someone likes your story so much that they're willing to illustrate for you! I speak from experience as someone once offered to illustrate a story that I'd written, years ago, and I was very excited as they were willing to do it simply from the first draft!

Unfortunately, they never got the chance to actually do the illustrations (at least to my knowledge) due to that 'dreaded' thing called a life butting in and other opportunities took the artist's attention to other things.

What this all means is that I'm veryveryveryvery thrilled that someone did that for you! I'm looking forward to reading the story for which this happened and seeing the illustrations themselves.

Congratulations!