MAGGIE STUARTpicturesI've always liked to draw what I'm writing, especially if I get stuck on plot or character development. Sometimes, it's been practical, like when I want an illustration to use as the cover of a chapbook. Other times, I just want to draw. Because the story's been with me so long, I've drawn more "Maggie Stuart" pictures than almost anything else. She's as real to me as most of my friends. You can read the first novel about her, The Last Rite, either as an ebook or listen to the audiobook. AARON WITH MAGIC BOOK - A sketch from the second Maggie book, THE RED RING. Aaron, now 16, holds the strange book of spells that unleashes hell ARABELLA IN SHAWL - The evil Arabella, looking almost demure wrapped in her shawl. HUNT EXAMINES MAGGIE'S BLOOD - Hunt examines Maggie's blood, taken during class, as a horrified Jason Lawson spies on him through a classroom window. CHAR THE BURNT MAN - Maggie's boogeyman and adversary, captor and enticer. He tells her he has many names. Hunt calls him Char. Maggie thinks of him CHAR THE LAUNCH - From a time in deep antiquity. Char oversees a mystic rite in his majestic robes, crowned and carrying a staff of power. COVER THE LAST RITE - Alternate cover illustration for THE LAST RITE, showing Maggie chained in the center of Char's pentagram as fire races along its ang DAMON - The Dark Man's son, the lesser of his two children in power but the one who Maggie finds a curious connection with. DAMON IN BAR - Damon, the Dark Man's son, as he appears when he is searching for Maggie in the Dreamworld. HUNT SMIRKS - Hunt, Maggie's science teacher, who has unexpected history with the Dark Man and seems to always be playing both sides of every situation. HUNT KIDNAPS MAGGIE - From THE RED RING. Hunt kidnaps Maggie off the street, determined to get some answers out of her about his own past and the holes in KIDNAPPING - Maggie Stuart is kidnapped from her school in the middle of the day, launching her on the adventure of a lifetime. KLIMT LOVE - Ideal cover for THE LAST RITE - one of Klimt's masterworks framed with gold bars, echoing Maggie, the Dark Man, Arabella, and little Peter. KLIMT LOVE DETAIL - Detail of Klimt's painting LOVE (1895) showing the figures that Maggie associates with herself and Char, the Dark Man. AARON SEES MAGGIE'S SCAR - From THE RED RING. Aaron gets his first look at the impressive scar Char left along Maggie's upper arm. MAGGIE AND ARABELLA - Arabella taunts Maggie, Char's captive. MAGGIE STUART AGE 13 - Maggie S, See MAGGIE STUART novel photos by Jen Frankel, Maggie Stuart, awkward at 13, in her usual outfit of sweatshirt and jeans. MAGGIE OVER THE CIRCLE - A very different Maggie at the end of THE LAST RITE, propelling herself into the air over Char's pentagram as he attempts to stri MAGGIE IN CHAINS - An obstinate Maggie faces down Char in his final ritual, his Last Rite. MAGGIE DREAMS OF FALLING - From the beginning of THE RED RING, Maggie dreams not of flying, but of falling. QUARRY - The original conception of the quarry beneath which Char has his catacombs. In earlier drafts, the catacombs were under a decrepit amusement park RED - Arabella taunts little Peter, goading him into using her knife to find "red" inside the unconscious Scott Saunders. WESTBROOK ELEMENTARY - A plan of Maggie's public school, Westbrook Elementary, showing the locations of major events from THE LAST RITE. JOHN TAMBLYN - Early pencil crayon sketch of the detective who tries to come to Maggie's rescue, the mysterious John Tamblyn. TAMBLYN SKETCHES - A page of loose sketches of both John Tamblyn and his suspicious subordinate Carla Szaba. (24 chapters in 70 parts, 14 hrs) |
audiobook (unabridged)
read by Jen Frankel
Young Maggie Stuart begins to have strange dreams, then develops what seem to be superhuman perception. Suddenly, she is thrown into the middle of an age-old battle between ancient foes. Will she stay a pawn, or can she become a force to be reckoned with herself? And just how does her teacher Mr. Hunt fit into the picture: as an ally, or her worst enemy of all?
on YouTube
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illustrations from The Last Rite
by Jen Frankel