Rosie Hilder is Creative Bloq's Deputy Editor. After beginning her career in journalism in Argentina – where she worked as Deputy Editor of Time Out Buenos Aires – she moved back to the UK and joined Future Plc in 2016. Since then, she's worked as Operations Editor on magazines including Computer Arts, 3D World and Paint & Draw and Mac|Life.
Jessica Hische is a lettering artist who has created several picture books, including Tomorrow I'll Be Brave, Tomorrow I'll Be Kind and Who Will U Be? Her latest book, My First Book of Fancy Letters, is out in October. An alphabet book with a twist, it aims to get kids excited about drawing letters.. Here, we chat about her work creating picture books, as well as the biggest challenge she faces today and how she juggles her career with being a mother of three.
It was really fun to come up with the list... it's nice because it's not like an alphabet book, so it's not like for babies, but it's so bright and fun. My four year old is obsessed with it and he's constantly like commissioning me to draw different versions of the letters. So if in the book 'w' is 'wiggly', he keeps telling me like we need to make a water 'w'.
It's like I'm two people doing two jobs. First I'm the author, and I'm writing the book for my illustrator self to respond to. Sometimes I'll take notes as I'm writing or I'll be adjusting the writing based on what I think the pacing of the illustrations will be – so I don't want a bunch of zoomed in illustrations back to back or a bunch of zoomed out illustrations back to back and I know that the words kind of communicate that.
I don't actually get asked about the kids very much. And I think it's mostly because people want to be respectful and to not make it about like 'you're a mom'. As such I don't often get to talk about the fact that I have three kids and manage their lives and a career at the same time. And I think it's mostly interviewers get worried that they're not asking those questions to men or whatever whereas I feel like, of course, ask the men the question.
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