"What Lies Unseen" Character Portraits

I don't really spend much money on myself, even when I receive it as a gift, like at Christmas from my family. I've always been one who'd rather treat my family and friends instead, but when I saw artist Taylor Gibbs post recently on Facebook that she was available for author

portraits and character sketches, I decided to indulge. After all, her art is phenomenal, and she said she'd create custom works in exchange for gifts of books off her wish list.

I reached out to her and asked if she could come up with portraits for two of my characters from "What Lies Unseen." I shared a couple of photos I used while writing the book as the basis for my own imagined versions of both Sam Avery, the main character, and Cole Wyatt, one of the secondary characters Sam meets in the story. What she created from that blew my mind.

I told Taylor she's brought Sam and Cole to life. I am absolutely in love with these paintings. I'm going to use them in future marketing materials for "What Lies Unseen," but I couldn't resist sharing them now because they're just so damn good. My daughter is a digital artist, too, so I know how much time and talent went into these - Taylor is beyond fantastic. (And I paid her, because she earned and deserved every dime!)