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Reader artwork for Close Kin
By Clare B. Dunkle. New York: Henry Holt, 2003. 216p.

When I started this website seven years ago, Facebook and its peers didn’t exist, and blogs were not yet one to a household. The idea of contributing content to the Internet was still a little daunting: you needed to buy a domain, you needed to find a hosting site, you needed to procure an FTP program, and you had to figure out how to handle HTML. Nowadays, six-year-olds are showing off their latest photos on Facebook, and every grandpa has his own blog. The Internet has become a two-way street.

Seven years ago, I began posting reader art on my website. My career was young; only about five people had heard of my work, and only about three of them took the time to write me. Those were fun days. Great reader mail came in. I loved reading it, and I loved responding. Great reader art came in. I loved it all, and I loved posting it, too.

Then more than five people began reading my books, and my career became much more complicated. At the same time, my family faced life-threatening medical issues. I struggled for years to keep up with it all. Reader mail, which is very important to me, tended to stack up—sometimes for months. And the reader art lay around in small piles on my desk. Whenever I got a minute between deadlines and doctor visits, I tried to catch up on the mail, and I usually succeeded, more or less. It was the reader art that fell to the bottom of the priority list every time. I couldn’t seem to get the artwork posted.

I still can’t. I love receiving it. I marvel at the creativity and insight of you artists out there. But I think of how disappointed my artistic readers have been over the years, sending me their work and waiting to see it appear... and the fact is, it just doesn’t happen. So I’ve taken down the Reader Art pages. The links have all gone away. I console myself that you artists now have easy access to the Internet, and I’ve seen for myself some of the fan art you’ve posted out there. You certainly don’t need to wait for me anymore.

Artwork by Clare.
Artwork by Jade.
 
Artwork by Stephanie.		  

Artwork by Stephanie.
      
         

Artwork by Lara.		    

Artwork by Lara.		      

Artwork by Stephanie.

Artwork by Stephanie.
           

Artwork by Jodie.
Artwork by Jodie.

Artwork by Jodie.
Artwork by Jodie.