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MARGRETE LAMOND

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Hi, my name is Margrete Lamond.

I coach picture-book creators who dream of being published.

If you have a picture-book dream

I can help that dream come true.

Whether you’re an author or
an illustrator,
there are ways
we can work together.

Start here with me to by-pass the overwhelm.

Don't let a lack of foresight or planning hamper the success of your next project. Sign up for our free guide today and gain the knowledge and skills you need to create a picture book that captivates and delights young readers. Don't miss this opportunity to take your illustration smarts to the next level! Click anywhere on the image to take you straight there.

If you love picture-book illustration, and if you love communicating your love of illustration, you need to know how to talk about art in a way that your listener understands . . . and wants to hear more about. Waxing lyrical and using fluffy-gushy-waffle is NOT the way. Down-to-earth, honest-to-goodness, old-fashioned aesthetics IS the way. Click the image to take you straight to your FREE guide to understanding and talking about picture-book illustration. It’s easy once you know how . . . and why.

 

How I can help …

REVEAL YOUR GENIUS WITH A 1-ON-1 CONSULTATION

Illustrator consultations - $297

My one-on-one consultations for picture-book illustrators are tailored to help reveal your illustration genius.

They are for artists & illustrators who feel stale, stuck or stumped about their illustration practice - whether beginning or established.

I analyse your portfolio, identify your ‘genius style’, suggest ways to nurture it and send you away with a laser focus on your new direction.

Illustrator portfolio-coaching - $988

Portfolio coaching is a four-session coaching package designed to develop your ‘genius style’ into a cohesive portfolio.

This coaching package is also recommended for graduates of the Pitch-perfect Portfolio master-course who need some additional personalised mentoring to fine-tune their portfolio for submission.

5-Day Challenges - $9

In these 5-day challenges, we drop our preconceptions about what it means to be a picture-book illustrator, step out of our heads for a few days and do things completely differently.

While you may not find your new ‘forever’ style in just 5 days, you will find a new way of looking at the world.

Only by breaking old habits can your true style emerge.

Master course for illustrators - Pitch-Perfect Portfolio

This self-paced course explores the science of visual perception in terms of visual narrative (illustration).

Discover the science-based secrets of what appeals to our primal brains, how to incorporate this appeal into our illustration practice, and how to develop a signature style that helps your work stand out from other portfolios.

A micro-course you can finish in an afternoon

Micro-course for illustrators course - (Re)thinking Like an Illustrator

Discover the secret to refreshing, rejuvenating & revamping the impact of your picture-book illustrations with this micro-course.

Suitable for developing illustrators and for established professionals.

As one award-winning author-illustrator said: “I wish I’d learnt this stuff 20 years ago.”

Picture-book manuscript development - $297

My story-coaching sessions are a deep-dive structural edit into the foundations of your story.

Each coaching session is a one-hour, one-on-one recorded conversation where we explore your reasons for writing your story, examine the theme, characters and plot, and brainstorm updates and changes.

Please note: these story-coaching sessions include a follow-up session. After your first two sessions, subsequent edits can be purchased separately.

If you are looking for a single session only, sign up for the single-session bootcamp.

Single session WRITING BOOTCAMP for picture-book authors - $167

These face-to-face (on Zoom), one-on-one sessions are designed to give you an intensive story-development session that catapults your story from first to third draft in a single sitting.

We discuss your passion for your story and why you want to share it with the world, then go on to refine your theme, develop your characters and fix your plot.

Additional live editing calls can be purchased on request.

Book - Seven Steps to Story

Seven Steps to Story is a downloadable book in pdf-format.

It shows you how to plot the structure of a rich and layered story that readers - and publishers - will want to read.

The seven-step process leads you through character development & motivation, opening and closing scenes, how to build tension and how to create a successful narrative arc.

Designed for picture-book authors, Seven Steps to Story is relevant to all forms of storytelling.

Some award-winning titles I’ve published