I made a trip up to Mérida, Mexico to attend the 2025 FILEY Book Fair, where the Belize Book Industry Association and Cubola Productions had a booth featuring Belizean books, including my latest fantasy novel, The Land of the Night Sun.
I’d like to thank Cubola for giving me the opportunity to attend the fair and for showcasing my book and its illustrations, and all the wonderful people I met there. ¡Los yucatecos son muy amables!
Look forward to going next year!
I recently held a workshop about character design and creative writing for Standard 5 & 6 students of Hummingbird Elementary School in Belize City. The students are reading my book, The Land of the Night Sun, in their Reading & Comprehension class, and the school asked me to hold a workshop where the students could design their character to fit into the story.
Needless to say, it was a blast seeing what their imaginations came up with. We also held a couple of group activities, one being the “Character Hot Seat”, where a student pretended to be their characters while being asked questions from their classmates. They also went around examining each other’s drawings and tried to guess something about a classmate’s characters solely based from visual clues. I participated myself with my own character, Hap Hap the cowardly potoo (pictured below), and read a short scene featuring his encounter with the protagonist, Itzel.
I’ve realised I actually have very few drawings of the twin protagonists of The Jade Necklace series together! So here are little Itzel and Miguel.
I’m holding a Meet the Author event for my book, The Land of the Night Sun, at the Leo Bradley Library in Belize City on 14 February.
For those who missed the book launch in January, you’re welcome to join us!
Excited to announce that Itzel and I will be attending the 2025 FILEY book fair in the colourful city of Mérida in Mexico, from 22-30 March!
I illustrated a decodable reader now used in schools to teach children how to read. Here are a few of the pages!
We held the book launch for The Land of the Night Sun at the Imagination Factri in Belize City, which doubled as an exhibit showcasing illustrations from the book.
A special thanks to all those who attended, including the students of St Mary’s Anglican Primary School, for lending me their ears as I discussed the ideas behind my book and read an excerpt about Itzel getting harassed by a very persistent peccary flogging his perfumes.
The book launch was also covered on Channel 5 and Channel 7 Belize evening news. You can watch the full segments here.
I’ve drawn up a new map of Xibalba, reoriented so that north points upwards.
Put together a new trailer for my book, The Land of the Night Sun, formatted for best viewing on mobiles and tablets. You can check it out below!
I recently appeared on Channel 5’s Open Your Eyes to discuss my book, The Land of the Night Sun!
You can watch the full interview here:
I’m excited to announce that my book, The Land of the Night Sun, the first book in my fantasy-adventure series The Jade Necklace, will be available in stores in Belize from December 2024! To celebrate the launch I put together this trailer for the book (because if films can have trailers, why can’t books?).
Thought of a scene in The Land of the Night Sun where the heroes Itzel and Quashy are looking across the vast lake in the centre of Xibalba. The painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich came to mind, so I decided to make this little homage to one of my favourite classical painters.
Illustrated a scene from my book in which a jaguar (Kinich Ahau) and a Coati (Quashy) are debating the aesthetics of spots versus stripes.
Another book in the Sounds & Letters series will be released by the end of the year and used in schools across Belize. Here are some of the stories I got to illustrate for it!
I illustrated a children’s book about a boy who competes in a regatta by sailing on the back of a big turtle. Naturally it made for some fun scenes! Here a few pages from it.
We’re celebrating Book Week in several locations across the Cayo district in Belize. I designed this poster for the occasion!
Here are some samples of the illustrations I’ve been doing for the updated versions of the “Living Together” textbooks for primary schools in Belize.
A new year and a new book illustrated! This was a short one about a boy’s adventure through his dreams, written as a song.
Here’s the second in a series teaching children about how to manage their feelings, with this one about a turtle overcoming his anxiety.
I recently illustrated this book as part of a series teaching children about how to manage their feelings, which was the perfect excuse to draw a little dragon going on a suburban rampage!
