1 part vodka
1 part tequila
1 part rum
1 part gin
1 part triple sec
1 1/2 parts sweet and sour mix
1 splash Coca-Cola
Mix ingredients together pour into a shaker with ice and, well… shake. Pour into a tall glass. Garnish with lemon and a sprig of mint. Best when sipped through a long blue straw.
So honored to be commissioned to do this beautiful cover art for the novel Wolfe Island by Giulia Torre. Working with the author was a pleasure. Her description of Meredith, her heroine, and how she was to be portrayed on the cover, well… I just adore the way it turned out. So here’s a synopsis of the book. I hope you all rush to Amazon and purchase yourself a copy!
Set against a lush American landscape in 1893, Wolfe Island is the story of two people deeply connected to the region and to each other.
What is Meredith Wells to think when her erstwhile friend, Tristan Wolfe, son of a Russian shipping tycoon, fails to reappear for five full years after a childhood of island summers spent together? Until his yacht capsizes her skiff, she assumed he had forgotten her.
Meredith is an accomplished botanical illustrator sketching New York’s native island plants. Wolfe’s return brings intimate memories to the surface, and with them an expansion of her artistic repertoire. Wolfe and Meredith’s reunion is a spectacle, but nothing compared to the accidental circulation of her anatomical studies. Of him.
Meredith is convinced her titillating drawings will lead to a lucrative career, and even progress the woman’s movement. If only she could persuade Wolfe to assist with her scientific rendering of his anatomic detail.
But an entourage of city socialites have arrived to witness the unveiling of the most spectacular plan the region has ever seen…an international seaway that will introduce big, brilliant ships to the river. Wolfe is prepared to sacrifice everything to see the seaway realized.
Reunited with the young woman he has known since she was hip high, Wolfe is faced with a choice: a marriage contract with the wealthy daughter of his business partner, one that would secure the seaway and prosperity for the only place he’s ever called home. Or succumb to the maddening distractions of a native girl who plays baseball in bicycling pants and swears like a sailor.
Can Meredith persuade him to bank diamonds on the water?
“Just a sandy wind swept island!
What more would you have it be?
With a turquoise sky above it,
Around it sapphire sea.
When its dawns are pearl and opal,
Its noons are crystals clear,
And its sunsets shower down gold dust
Til the diamond stars appear.
When to those who are born on the island,
And to many from over the sea,
Tis fairer than all its jewels.
What more does it need to be?” — M. Starbuck
It’s Friday People!!! Drink it in!
The island of Nantucket created with masking fluid and a lot of water. Might as well use water to make water don’t you think?
