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I've written, illustrated, and self-published two books and I did all the graphic design for them too.
There's nothing quite like seeing your art in book form! =)
Babysitting Business Secrets
I wrote this book to compliment my babysitting blog and I did all of the design work too.
Cover design
![Babysitting Business Secrets](https://cdn.matthewjamestaylor.com/img/babysitting-business-secrets-book-cover-small.png)
Illustrations
There are over 100 color illustrations that I drew in Inkscape. The kids in the illustrations are caricatures of my three kids:
![Sylvie, Arlo, and Summer caricatures](https://cdn.matthewjamestaylor.com/img/sylvie-arlo-summer-caricatures.png)
I kept notes in my phone of all the funny things my kids said when they were young and I used their quotes for the chapter page illustrations.
Here are some examples:
![Kidsit book illustration 2](https://cdn.matthewjamestaylor.com/img/kidsit-book-illustration-2-small.png)
![Kidsit book illustration 3](https://cdn.matthewjamestaylor.com/img/kidsit-book-illustration-3-small.png)
![Kidsit book illustration 1](https://cdn.matthewjamestaylor.com/img/kidsit-book-illustration-1-small.png)
![Kidsit book illustration 6](https://cdn.matthewjamestaylor.com/img/kidsit-book-illustration-6-small.png)
![Kidsit book illustration 4](https://cdn.matthewjamestaylor.com/img/kidsit-book-illustration-4-small.png)
![Kidsit book illustration 5](https://cdn.matthewjamestaylor.com/img/kidsit-book-illustration-5-small.png)
You can buy my babysitting book on Amazon as a full-color paperback or an ebook.
The Land of No Horizon
I co-authored and published The Land of No Horizon with my father in 2001. It's a weird, unique, and crazy book about the hollow Earth theory. It took approximately 12 years to research and write and there's nothing else like it on the planet!
Cover design
![The Land of No Horizon](https://cdn.matthewjamestaylor.com/img/the-land-of-no-horizon-book-cover-small.jpg)
Illustrations
There are over 80 diagrams in the book, I drew these in CorelDraw.
![The Land of No Horizon](https://cdn.matthewjamestaylor.com/img/tlonh-diagrams-small.jpg)
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