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Carol Heyer

Carol Heyer's career has taken her from screenwriter and production designer, to the pages of well-known children's books, from vividly realistic and vibrantly colored 'high fantasy' fairy tales, sword and sorcery, to the mystery and religious genres. Imaginative and arresting images are Heyer's stock in trade, earning her honors from, Print's Regional Design Annual, Spectrum: The International Competition for Fantastic Art, The Society of Illustrators LA, The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists, and The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, among others.

Heyer is a resident of Thousand Oaks California and is a full time illustrator and writer. She has demonstrated computer art and worked for a movie production company as production designer and writer of feature films. "Thunder Run," a screenplay that she co-wrote with Charles Davis was produced by Lynn/Wenger Productions and released by Cannon Films. "May Day," another script written by Heyer for LWP was produced and released directly to the video market.

Heyer left the Production Company to pursue a career as a freelance artist and writer. One of Heyer's specialties is writing and illustrating children's books as well as young adult covers and games. She has done work for Hyperion/Disney Press, McGraw Hill, Harcourt, Scholastic, Boyd's Mills Press, Ideals, Penguin Putnam/Henry Winkler, and many others. She has written and illustrated numerous children's books, among them, "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood", "Beauty and the Beast", "The First Reader" (250,000 copies), and "The First Christmas", (190,000 copies). To date well over one million of her children's picture books have been sold.

Another of her specialties is high fantasy. Heyer's art has appeared on everything from book covers to bookmarks. She has done work for Baen Books, Easton Press, TSR Inc., Wizards of the Coast, etc. Heyer also works in the mystery genre and has garnered recognition for her various magazine and cover paintings. However Heyer's favorite genre remains fantasy. She attributes her interest in faerie tales to the stories that her mother told her as a child and to the freedom of imagination that make believe worlds allow. As Heyer says, "I love fantasy so completely because these worlds, characters and creatures can be painted anyway that you choose to see them. After all, no one can tell you your dragon is wrong!"

Her father and mother, William J. and Merlyn M. Heyer were great influences in their daughter's life. Heyer credits the success of her freelance career to the support her parents gave her. This support in turn allowed her to take "the road less traveled, which has made all the difference" and, the most wonderful thing of all, the opportunity to write and paint the things she loves.

Heyer graduated from California Lutheran University. Her biography is included in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in the West, Contemporary Authors, Something About the Author, etc.

Her fantasy and science fiction art is represented by Jane Frank at Worlds of Wonder, her children's art by Storyopolis in Los Angeles.

http://www.carolheyer.com



Publication list:

Once Upon a Cool Mororcycle Dude (illustrator)

The First Christmas

The First Easter

George W. Bush

Babu the Waterbuffalo

Abraham Lincoln(illustrator)

Black Beauty (illustrator)

Here Come the Brides

The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood

A Christmas Carol (illustrator)

Dinosaurs Strange and Wonderful (illustrator)

The Gift of the Magi

Robin Hood

Excalibur

Beauty and the Beast

Rapunzel

All Things Bright and Beautiful(illustrator)

The Christmas Story

The Easter Story

Prancer (illustrator)

The Dream Stealer

Down the Great Unkown

The Golden Easter Egg(illustrator)

The Star in the Pasture (illustrator)

Niagara Falls, or Does It? (illustrator)

Holy Enchilada! (illustrator)

Night I Flunked My Field Trip (illustrator)

Zippity Zinger (illustrator)

Summer School! What Genius Thought Up That? (illustrator)

Help! Somebody Get Me Out of Fourth Grade (illustrator)

Day of the Iguana (illustrator)

I Got A D in Salami (illustrator)

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