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ABOUT DAVID
David was born in England. After gaining certification as a teacher and a Bachelor's Degree in Education from London University he spent years teaching the basics of English grammar and writing to children.
He reached a turning point when he wrote and part-illustrated a set of textbooks for elementary science, called "Looking at Science," which was published by Basil Blackwell of Oxford, England. After that, he began his own self-publishing enterprise called Brightstar Publishing (which today is Castle of Grace, LLC).
He moved to America to pursue his publishing work, and there he met and married Rosemary Hugo, the niece of the spiritual director and writer John J. Hugo.
In America David continued to self-publish illustrated instructional books and also novels for Christian children. At the same time he freelanced for years as an editorial illustrator for books published through traditional publishers. He also worked as a technical writer and illustrator, and produced videos to promote engineering products.
During his career he has become proficient in the main desktop publishing and illustration programs, and he learned to work with commercial printers. He built and maintains four websites.
In 2018 David was invited to become a full-time editor at The Derrick newspaper, based in Oil City. He worked there until March of 2020, when the coronovirus pandemic caused layoffs at the paper.
Contact details:
Phone: (814) 678 3427
E-mail: david@ideasrealized.com
ABOUT ROSEMARY
Rosemary Hugo Fielding was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. She received a B.A. in English from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and a M.A.T. from the University of Pittsburgh.
Rosemary has been a writer since she was eight, in various ways and at various tasks. Her professional writing includes the years she spent as a reporter on city daily newspapers in Westmoreland, Allegheny and Venango counties and as a freelance writer for other publications, including Culture Wars, Our Sunday Visitor, The Pittsburgh Catholic, and New Covenant Magazine. She also has worked as a proofreader and copyeditor. She is working on re-publishing the books of her uncle, Fr. John J. Hugo, which involves both copyediting the new printings, repaginating the indexes, and writing forewords for the books. (Those books can be viewed and purchased at www.castleofgrace.com). She is also currently writing on some longer projects.
As well as being a professional writer, Rosemary is also a teacher. For years she taught English literature and writing to middle and high school students; she has also taught writing at the college level, both as an instructor and a tutor.
Being a wife and mother, Rosemary also has worked fulltime as a homemaker for many years, and she continues to put in many hours at those happy tasks when she is not writing, reading, researching and making her contribution to outside groups.
Phone: (814) 678 3427
E-mail: rosemary@ideasrealized.com
ABOUT HELEN
Helen has been creating art since she could first hold a crayon or pencil.
Her first works for public consumption were created during high school. She created a series of cartoon characters for an online magazine. These were digitally made. Shortly after, she was offered commissions for portraits of pets created in great detail using colored pencil.
Her next professional step, while still at high school, was to provide for a naturalist a set of illustrations in water color depicting the rare birds of Pennsylvania.
Helen attended university from 2016 to 2020, where she studied English Literature as a major and studio art as a minor. In her studio art course she was trained in the use of all the main forms of media creation.
She graduated in 2020 and is now accepting commissions for illustration work.
You may contact Helen via her email:
helen@ideasrealized.com