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My friend Cynthia is an established illustrator and works for Lucasfilm and Topps in America she is one of the few people who actually gets paid to draw Star Wars and Indiana Jones! She is working hard on developing her own material and developing children’s literature. She works doing conventions and appearance, while trying to get the work done - we all know that one!

We had a conversation about one of my books I'm working on and what keeps coming up is the fact that if I get my book published I have no say in what illustrator I can use.

Now, if I had a friend who could not draw for toffee and I felt sorry for - I could understand that, but she works for Lucas from crying out loud! Surely someone at that level should be able to actually give my book some gravitas - some commercial impetus for a publisher to say - hey her work will really help sell this work. No?

What is the situation with this - does anyone know an illustrator partnership that's working today?

You can see Cynthia's work here: http://www.cynnarcisi.com/index.htm

Comments please. Cheers,
Mr Flibble.