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Aliza Layne

How I Crafted the Fantasy World in Beetle & the Hollowbones

August 6, 2020 by We Need Diverse Books

By Aliza Layne Take a second and draw a little Halloween house right now. What kind of creature lives inside of it? Nobody is going to make the same house, and nobody is going to imagine the exact same creature; not if you really let yourself think instead of drawing something you’ve seen before. … [Read more...] about How I Crafted the Fantasy World in Beetle & the Hollowbones

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How I Crafted the Fantasy World in Beetle & the Hollowbones

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