Illustrations by the author, age 12.
I was not a child prodigy. I dearly loved writing my characters and drawing them, I just didn't do either very well. People turned "deathly pale" once a page. Characters died multiple times in a book. I had separate races like Elves and Dorians and Men. And I had a certain set of characters with the names Daren, Lea, Jonathan, Corin, Brianna and Kara. The first picture features one exciting adventure in which Daren was wounded. When I was 12, my characters were all older teens. Now I'm older and my characters are closer to 12. And yet, they still sound a good deal better than they did then. They also no longer feature peripheral vision.
