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CHECK OUT THE NEWLY REVISED INQUSITOR'S APPRENTICE SITE!

FOR THE BEST SITE EVER CREATED FOR A BOOK/TRILOGY/SERIES, CHECK THIS OUT: http://www.inquisitorsapprentice.com/

Home of the NYPD Inquisitor Books

Author Chris Moriarty gives a history of New York City and its people around the time that The Inquisitor's Apprentice was set--in the early 1900s. She discusses The Lower East Side, Coney Island, Chinatown, Hell's Kitchen, Little Italy, and Harlem and what life was like in those days. She talks about growing up in Manhattan and how some of the characters in Inquisitors are based on members of her extended family. And, Chris has posted several of my illustrations that appear in the novel. 

Hitting Bookstores October 3rd!

Endpaper spread for The Inquisitor's Apprentice

New York City, circa 1900, for The Inquisitor's Apprentice

My editor at Harcourt Children's has just given me permission to show more of the thirteen full-page illustrations that I did for The Inquisitor's Apprentice. (Book I hits stores October 3rd.) Here is the title frontis page map of Manhattan. Remember that the novel takes place at the beginning of the twentieth century. 

Illustration for The Inquisitor's Apprentice

Illustration from The Inquisitor's Apprentice, which hits bookstores October 3rd.

Frauline Finger

More Green Mile remarques.

I just did remarques in a set of the Dutton Signet paperbacks. Here are a few of them:

 

Going through my past work...

For Hallmark Cards

I worked on the Rainbow Brite project for Hallmark Cards when it was conceived back in the mid 1980s. I did this and several other pen & inks and another artist added color to them. This is Red Butler.

Remarques...

This is a remarque I did in a Hodder (U.K.) edition of The Green Mile. I do no preliminary sketches in pencil because book paper is soft and absorbent and you don't want to start erasing on it. The collector wanted an electric chair. I started drawing in ink, beginning at the top and working my way down but not really knowing where I was going: I wanted something more ghoulish than the chair I did for the Dutton chapbooks, so I did not mind the distortions that came with having made no preliminary sketch. And, the collector was very happy with it.

Check out the new Inquisitor Apprentice website!

Author Chris Moriarty has created the very best website for the much-anticipated Inquisitor's Apprentice!
Here's the link: http://www.inquisitorsapprentice.com/   Chris offers a history of New York City and its people around the time that the novel was set--in the early 1900s. She discusses The Lower East Side, Coney Island, Chinatown, Hell's Kitchen, Little Italy, and Harlem and what life was like in those days. She talks about growing up in Manhattan and how some of the characters in Inquisitors are based on members of her extended family. She will be posting some of my illustrations from the novel once the book is out--October 3rd.