Linda April 22nd, 2010
I got my Spring/Summer issue of Art Doll Quarterly. My Alice is on pages 54-56. The first page is a full page shot of her. If you get a chance to make it to a Barnes and Noble or Borders, check it out. Now what do I spend that check on????
Linda December 18th, 2009
I took pictures of our Frog Prince doll and sent them to the editor of Art Doll Quarterly for consideration. This is her reply:
“Hi Linda,
It’s so ironic that I’d get an email from you today because we just had our art selection committee meeting yesterday and made our final placement decisions for the next issue! I was going to contact you yet today to let you know that your Alice mannikin has been chosen as a feature article in the Summer issue. So, what I need from you is an article approximately 800 words in length that includes the following:”
instructions on the article and it’s form, then she ends the email by saying….
“Compensation is paid at a rate of $50 per printed page, however, I won’t know how many pages it will run until my designer begins laying it out. Please let me know as soon as possible if you’re willing to do the article. If you should have any questions or need clarification, feel free to contact me via e-mail (preferred) or phone. I’m only too happy to help. And thanks again for sharing such a terrific project with the readers of Art Doll Quarterly!
Thanks, too, for sending the images of your Oriental Frog Prince. He’s great! I’ll confer with my team and get back to you about him. You do great work. 
”
This is so very very cool ;0) And needless to say I am happy happy happy!
(p.s. she is a GREAT Editor to work for. Trust me, I know this.)
Linda August 3rd, 2009
I received my complimentary copies yesterday. I always get a little queasy when I see myself or my stuff in print. Guess I am afraid it will make me look goofy. The article is 3 full pages long and has lots of big close up pictures. It had been edited a lot but did keep the “flavor/intent” of what I was trying to get across. Originally the idea (sculpting doll heads on Halloween skulls) has been accepted by Art Doll Quarterly–they changed editors and the new editor rejected it. I had been wanting to get into other publications so sent the idea to Doll Crafter and Costuming..that editor gave it the green light. Happy ending after all. The publishing world works in their own mysterious way and it is different from magazine to magazine (we-Scott and I–have been learning this over the course of the last year–see his blog for the magazines/books he has been-or will be-in.)
The trip to the beach for our birthdays was fun. While the weather at home was 100 degrees plus, the temp at the beach was in the low 70′s. Kids played and played on the beach–they found out that you can get sand in the most unusual places LOL. As a surprise, we bought Mimi a horse ride on the beach. It was her favorite part of the vacation. I will post pictures in subsequent posts.
Linda January 17th, 2009
Presently I find that I am asking myself why is it that 9 people can see your art work and tell you you did a good job and they like it and then there is one person who says that your doll looks like a monkey (and it is NOT supposed too) that that is the one person that you obsess on?!!! Yes, that has happened to me this week. Along with finding out that the Editor of ADQ got fired and there is a new one–upon contact was told that my chicken doll is in the spring issue and the gypsy is still in the summer issue but the article I wrote about the satyr will not be. Why??? I think of all my work he is by far the best, and the article is a “new technique”, which is what they HAD been asking for. Does this mean a new direction for the magazine? Did she just plain not like it while the other editor did? Was it too edgy for her? And best of all, will she answer my email asking just these same questions. Ha, am I ready to hear the answer? It did motivate me to check into a gallery in town. I was told that they had just closed their call for new artists but I could put a piece in an upcoming auction that they were having. This I will do…I am thinking of giving them my dear doll.
This week has also included finding out that a fellow christian artist I know had to have her stomach removed–yes…the WHOLE thing?! How can that be I ask..well I guess modern science can do that and you can get along (special diet etc) o.k.
Yesterday, my daughter was sobbing in my arms that I liked my middle child (Max) the most and that when I didn’t mention his name (Max’s) that that was comparing them…does this make sense to you??? Sigh…
I feel most puzzled by all of this.
Linda October 21st, 2008
I got my copy of Art Doll Quarterly few days ago. My Princess Deer doll is in it (pages 116-117)…sad to say, I was bummed because the pictures are in the back part of the magazine and not the front. I felt that still small voice in my head tell me that some people would be happy and blessed to have it in there at all. I felt convicted and repented of my bad attitude–just goes to show how much of a 49 year old brat I can be—sigh, the price of being human?!
Scott was contacted by Jeff (?!) at Moda Fabrics. He asked him if he would make a lap quilt of thier new fabric line (in time for Houston Quilt Market). They were/are willing to pay him $400-500 for this!!!! Now the down side of this is that Scott has only 4 days to pull this off!!!! Well, he said yes, of course, so he is now holed up in the studio working on this miracle. I will take pictures and post his progress in a few days…the fabric is not in stores yet so I can’t show you, shhhhhhhh!
Linda July 24th, 2008
Here she is, in the Aug/Sept/Oct issue of Art Doll Quarterly, 2008. I was happy to see her but…(o.k. so maybe I am being nit-picky) the collar is supposed to be standing up, sigh. I only “I” would know that. Next time I am going to send a picture of how the doll is supposed to look. Last issue they edited the heck out of my writing, this one they didn’t but the presentation is wrong–what will the next be (Dear Princess, Princess Deer) LOLOL!!! My daughter was sad that she didn’t see her doll in this issue…we sent in dolls that we both had done, they were spiders.
Linda July 2nd, 2008
I sent my “Deer/Dear Doll” to Editor of Art Doll Quarterly (don’t do like I did dear reader and wait till the last minute to send something in..it cost me $26 to send it Fed Ex, just so it would make it in time for the winter issue–I just about fainted when Scott told me!!!). I then emailed her to tell her that according to UPS it had arrived. Below is her response:
“Got it! She’s even more lovely in person.
Thanks!
Staci”
Fool doll was in the Summer issue, Cat doll will be in the fall 2008 issue, Dear/Dear doll will be in the Winter 2008 issue and Staci is interested in my Chicken doll for the spring 2009 issue (I am actaully hopng she makes it on the cover!) That is a whole year of ADQ.
Is this bragging? When I told my kids–they were unenthuised. Noel said “Geez, Mom it was exciting the first time you were in a magazine, but now it is getting old. You’ve been in about a gazillion times,” (and this kid is my math whiz???? Gazillion?! That’s not even a number!) Sigh.
