New Releases by Jessica Palmer

This book was written to help toddlers to understand and prepare for saying goodbye to mama’s milk when it’s time to stop nursing. Saying goodbye to mama’s milk is okay because mama’s love will last forever. Developmentally, Poppy the magical milk fairy helps toddlers and young children to prepare and ready themselves for this developmental milestone. Breastfeeding is a magical experience that bonds mothers and babies across cultures and weaning can be difficult to explain. It is my hope that this book will help mothers around the world to prepare their children for this important developmental step.

Illustrator and papercutter, Jessica Palmer, has created 80 pages of enchanting hand-drawn pictures for you to colour and lose yourself in. The images all have a magical woodland theme, and each one includes a hidden jewel, intricately worked into the design, which will include rings, brooches, pendants, chains, bracelets and earrings featuring insects, animals and leafy patterns. The book includes designs that fit on a single page as well as those that extend across a double-page spread. Some of the designs fill the entire page and others sit within it. Others have space left for the reader to extend the design themselves.

Jessica Palmer, illustrator and papercutter, has created 75 pages of enchanting hand-drawn pictures for you to colour and lose yourself in. The images all have a magical theme, and each one includes a hidden charm intricately worked into the design for readers to discover and colour in. The book will include designs that fit on a single page as well as those that extend across a double-page spread. Some of the designs fill the entire page and others sit within it. There is also a page on ''how to colour a gem''. High quality paper means that there is no show-through.

An elegant new coloring book inspired by and celebrating the spectacular designs of Tiffany lamps at the New-York Historical Society. A new addition to the wildly successful coloring-book genre, the leaded, kaleidoscopic designs of the beloved 132 Tiffany Studios lamps and three windows in the Neustadt Collection at the New-York Historical Society lend themselves perfectly to the format of a coloring book. The new drawings by renowned British illustrator Jessica Palmer, sixty-five single-page and full-spread illustrations in all, are inspired by the magical natural world of Tiffany, depicting dragonflies dancing among peonies, wisteria vines drooping over ponds, and entwining tulip and poppy blossoms. At least one dragonfly—arguably the best known of all Tiffany motifs—is found in every drawing, sometimes tucked away in a corner, sometimes the centerpiece. These intricate drawings beg to be filled in with a riot of color and are sure to provide a meditative calming of the spirit that coloring-book aficionados seek.

It''s the winter holiday season alas! Everyone is hanging their Christmas trimmings and stringing up mistletoe preparing for the season to come. They are tucked away safely in their suburban homes in front of the fire enjoying their hot chocolate. However, what they fail to acknowledge is that danger lurks in the shadows and in the corners of their homes waiting for them to turn their backs. What if this holiday season, your merry yuletide gays are slashed into ribbons while you lock yourself screaming in your bedroom? In this horrific anthology, a league of authors came together to write their scenes of terror for the holiday season. Blood is splattered on the snow and Santa Claus isn''t coming down anyone''s chimney any time soon. Slashing through the Snow will be a holiday book leaving you to wonder if Krampus is the only dark side of Christmas needing to be feared.

IT waits, and waits, and has waited since the beginning of time...IT has been called the Devil, Belial and other names throughout history, but now IT is the House. A pretty little house sitting on a cul-de-sac in a benign little town... IT waits. Scott, a writer and author, buys the house to write his next great novel in; he remodels it and then moves his family in. Once he had seen the history of death in the house...he felt he had to have it, and the spirits of the dead would talk to him about his book. His pregnant wife, and two sons, after a harrowing start, move in and become a disjointed family, time disappears, and the boys become possessed. The house has other ideas. Allison is in love with the House and the House is in love with Allison. It becomes a fight for Scott to save Allison, her unborn child, and her two sons. Who will win in the end? Scott, the house, the spirits inhabiting the house or the entity that has waited throughout time for the right person to come along...

Allison McDowell looks at her life and sees things starting to improve. Ever since her first husband, Scott, burned their old house down. With the Graves place in ruins she finally feels like things are returning to normal. Except for her youngest son. William Scott McDowell is a precocious child, he acts and speaks like a child several years older. Stranger still are his seemingly multiple personalities. One acts and reacts like a normal child, the other is smarter and more cunning. A third even reminds Allison eerily of her deceased husband, Scott. Continuing Scott''s work as a writer, Allison starts telling the one story that is truly hers: her family''s time in the old Graves house. The time when her family almost fell apart; when her life was crumbling around her and she remained steadfastly oblivious. But now, it seems the terror of the Graves family home has followed Allison, her sons, and her new husband Ira. Something or someone doesn''t want Allison to write her book, and it''s much closer to home than any of them could possibly imagine.

Jessica Palmer has had 28 books published, both fiction and nonfiction. Her novels - horror, fantasy and science fiction - were released by Pocket Books in the United States and Scholastic in the United Kingdom. She has written two textbooks about Native American history, which were published by McFarland, and an encyclopedia of natural history released by Harper Collins'' label Element Books and later by Thorson in the UK. Palmer has also written ten science-and-technology manuals on the topics of explosives and radiation. These were distributed globally. It was this work that brought her to Great Britain in 1988. The daughter of a professional clown, Palmer refers to her switch to writing fiction as an exercise in damage limitation. She taught classes and conducted workshops on creative writing and publishing at North Shropshire College in Whitchurch, Stanmore College and the Islington Arts Factory in London. As a journalist, Palmer won awards in New Mexico and Texas for writing features, public service and breaking news - the most recent in 2013. Palmer has also written satirical columns for newspapers, including "A Slice of Life" and "How to Make Love to your Personal Computer." Her two loves are writing and animals. She started a nonprofit in Kansas for wildlife rescue and has held a wildlife rehabilitation permit since 2002. Other Visions of Heaven and Hell are a series of sometimes inter-related stories about our ideas of Heaven and Hell, sometimes hilarious - sometimes horrific - but always entertaining.

"An excellent mix of the practical and the inspirational . . . featuring the fantastic, Beardsley-like intricate arabesque designs of the author." — The Papercraft Post Blog Learn how to separate the visual world into positive and negative shapes and design gorgeous images with pattern, texture and impact. A practical section shows step by step how to ''draw with a knife'' safely and effectively. Then Jessica provides artistic insights into an inspiring selection of her paper artworks, including silhouettes, portraits, landscapes, fashion images, illustrations, life drawing and more. "Intermediate and advanced artists in search of a fresh technique will find this guide challenging and absorbing." — Library Journal "Here she explains how to see the world through a paper cutter''s eyes. It''s all about seeing the positive and negative shapes in your subject, so the experience will stand you in good stead if you wish to improve your drawing skills." — The Leisure Painter "Here are dozens of beautiful, inspiring papercuts." — Machine Knitting Monthly

Zelia is a priestess, with sky-blue skin and stranger tempers. Daughter of a ritual union between a human and Air''s flighty elemental queen, she lives abandoned in the College of Healers. When a man dies because of Zelia''s rebellion, she is accused of the crime and declared renegade. Ares is an opportunist, an adventurer and a fugitive. A sword for hire. Neither elf nor human, he is another outsider, another fugitive, welcomed by no one, mortal or otherwise. Misfit and outcast meet. Sparks fly. Together they discover they possess unimaginable powers of sorcery which they will need to combat the scourge that threatens the land. For the evil sorcerer Queb, long thought dead, has returned...

Zelia is a priestess with sky-blue skin and strange tempers. Half-human and half-air elemental, she lives uneasily in the College of Healers. Perceived as an outsider, and declared a renegade, she is nevertheless chosen for strange and dangerous task. Ares is an opportunist and adventurer. Neither elf nor human he is another outsider, welcomed by no one, mortal or otherwise. Misfit and outcast meet, and together they discover the possess unimaginable powers of sorcery which they will need to combat the scourge that threatens the land. For the evil necromanceer Queb, long thought dead, has returned...