I've just posted the finished pieces in the Melusine series. Now I'm starting something quite different.
This is the Doll Maker's Wedding. Another pen drawing. You can catch up on its progress on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fionamcdonaldbooks

Catch up on pen drawings

This is Melusine's house finished.

Melusine at Swimming Creek, Nambucca Heads

Melusine in a landscape inspired by Eugene von Gerard

2015!

Happy 2015. This is going to be a very productive year. My first deadline is in ten days when I deliver the finished illustrations to Two Fearsome Fairy Tale From France, retold by Adele Geras and published by Christmas Press. I think it is coming out in May.

I am working hard on a novel for YA audience which will be out of my usual fantasy, however, possibly classified as sci fi. I have to finish it and see if a publisher wants it, but at least I will be writing.

My toy shop, Granny Fi's Toy Cupboard is moving from Uralla, NSW, Australia, to Armidale (all of twenty kms away). The grand opening is the 23rd January.

And I would really, really like to do some painting. The picture above is from the early 90s. I dug it out of a folder last year I think and actually quite like it.

And thank you everyone who makes these lovely comments about my work. I'm sorry I don't et round to publishing it sooner.