About Us
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, Pennsylvania, 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 copy editor. She is working on re-publishing the books of her uncle, Fr. John J. Hugo, which involves both copy editing the new printings, re-paginating 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 full-time 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, tutoring and working at Ideas Realized.
Contact Rosemary by e-mail at: rosemary@ideasrealized.com
ABOUT HELEN
Helen has been creating art since her toddler fingers could first hold a crayon.
After drawing prolifically throughout her childhood, filling boxes full of sketchpads and pictures, her first works for public consumption were created during high school. She created and digitally painted a series of cartoon characters for an online magazine. Shortly after, she began doing commissioned, detailed portraits of pets using artists’ colored pencils.
Before graduating high school, she worked on a set of illustrations in watercolor depicting the rare birds of Pennsylvania, collaborating with a naturalist who wrote the accompanying text.
Helen graduated from Liberty University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a minor in studio art, during which time she had poems published in a student publication and created illustrations for biology display cases in the university science hall. In her studio art course she was trained in the use of several different types of media and in the principles of design.
Now a full-time reporter writing for The Derrick and The News-Herald daily newspaper in northwest Pennsylvania, Helen is also accepting commissions for illustration and portrait work, as well as proofreading and copy editing jobs.
Contact Helen by e-mail at: helen@ideasrealized.com
In Memoriam
David Frank Fielding
1946-2024
David, the founder and visionary behind Ideas Realized, 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 became proficient in desktop publishing and illustration programs, and he learned to work with commercial printers. He built from scratch and maintained 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 coronavirus pandemic caused large-scale layoffs at the paper.
During the last four years of his life, David continued on creative and scholarly projects, including a movie outlining a program for bringing the Christian faith to children, until his untimely death in August 2024.