Lucia Nobrega and Melissa Good Team Up For Dar and Kerry Comic Strip & Coloring Book

Feb 21, 2019

Yesterday we announced the addition to Lucia Nobrega to the AUSXIP Publishing author list.

Today, I’m pleased to announce that Lucia will also be creating a comic book with the fan favorite characters created by author Melissa Good. We have no title to announce just yet.

Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart are characters written by Missy and have become favourites by so many. They feature in Missy’s Dar & Kerry fiction series published by Regal Crest Publishing.

Missy will be writing a new story set in the Dar & Kerry universe that will be turned into a comic strip by Lucia.

In addition to all of that, we will have a Dar & Kerry Coloring Book so you can relax and enjoy the artistry of Lucia Nobrega!

Now Available: 31 Zentangles and Mandalas

Nov 21, 2017

New Release for November is 31 Zentangles and Mandalas. Designed by Mary D. Brooks. The book will be available in book stores shortly or you can order a copy from our online store.

Price: $12.50 USD
Pages: 76
Designs: 31

Order Online: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Zentangles and Mandalas are illustrations and designs that are perfect for coloring. Designed to be a relaxing way to spend some quality time and just let the stresses of the day fade. We all remember how much fun it was as children when we colored. Now 31 Zentangles and Mandalas seeks to take you back to those carefree days as an adult with these designs in this coloring book for grown-ups.

Take out your pencils, crayons, markers and find a quiet spot to color in 31 Zentangles and Mandalas designs.

Some of the designs:

New Release: Zentangles Designs 40 Tangles To Color by Mary D. Brooks

Aug 7, 2017

Amazon.com

Zentangles Designs 40 Tangles To Color by Mary D. Brooks

Released: 31 July 2017
Price: $9.50

40 Tangles to Color! Zentangles are a fun way to relax and relieve stresses of the day. Color tangles and rest your mind as you color in the intricate designs. We all lead busy lives and we need ways to take the stress away from our lives. Coloring Zentangles is a way to soothe the mind and relieve the stresses of the day.

 

New Release: Coloring To Relax Mandalas & Geometric Patterns Volume 2

Apr 19, 2017

We’re pleased to announce the release of Coloring To Relax: Mandalas & Geometric Patterns Volume 2

Designed by Mary D. Brooks

The book contains 30 mandalas and geometric patterns.

Purchase from Amazon and Other Bookstores

WHY SHOULD WE COLOR?

How does coloring help? Isn’t that just for children? Psychologist Gloria Martinez Ayala recently discussed why it’s so important for adults as well as children. She was interviewed by the Huffington Post where she said: “The relaxation that it provides lowers the activity of the amygdala, a basic part of our brain involved in controlling emotion that is affected by stress.”

So what does that mean? It means by immersing ourselves in one activity that our energies are totally focused, our brains are not focused on the things that stress us out. This is quite true. It does work.

We all lead very busy lives with work commitments, family and health issues. There is so much going on. We neglect the one thing we should not and that is ourselves. We need to MAKE time for ourselves. In between writing fiction, I color my own designs or buy coloring books geared towards adults although the children’s coloring books take me back a few years. It gives me pleasure and hours of fun!

When we were children (and for some of us, that may be some time ago), we found enjoyment in creating art by coloring. We spent many hours hunched over our coloring books with crayons (or pencils and/or markers). We found pleasure in the simple act of coloring in.

What has happened since then? We grew up. We abandoned the simple pleasure of immersing ourselves in our coloring efforts. Life has knocked us around. Okay time to get back to what makes us happy and to forget our troubles, even for a short while.

Break out your favorite coloring pencils/crayons / paints – however you want to do it, do it!


In The Blood of the Greeks The Illustrated Companion Published!

Mar 20, 2016

51oDvIHbmEL._SX398_BO1,204,203,200_Our newest non-fiction book “In The Blood of the Greeks: The Illustrated Companion” is now available! 104 Pages of illustrations, images, first hand accounts of events portrayed in the book and much more!

Purchase from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0994476523

Purchase from Createspace: https://www.createspace.com/6120291

This book combined Mary’s love for history, research and my characters – it was a joy to work on and she had the unbelievable help of Lucia Nobrega who did her amazing Eva and Zoe Illustrations plus the Australian War Memorial and the New Zealand War Memorial via the The Alexander Turnball Library in Wellington, NZ. The Jewish Museum of Greece just went out of their way to help with giving me access to their material and photo archive. A researcher’s dream come true.

It’s 1942 in German Occupied Greece during World War II, and two women, one Greek, the other German must work together to help Jews escape. They have to put aside their mutual antipathy to accomplish their clandestine operation. They know that one wrong move will put an end to their lives.

In The Blood of the Greeks The Illustrated Companion is about the events written in the award-winning novel “In The Blood Of The Greeks”. Real life heroes of the Resistance, life in war-torn Greece and the Jewish fight for survival are portrayed through illustrations, images and real accounts. Part coloring book, part history book featuring Brazilian artist Lucia Nobrega’s illustrations of Eva Muller and Zoe Lambros and other characters from the novel.