Marilyn Scott-Waters
| Marilyn
Scott-Waters loves making things out of paper. Her popular website, www.thetoymaker.com,
receives 3,000 to 7,000 visitors each day, who have downloaded more than
four million of her easy-to-make paper toys. Her goal is to help parents
and children spend time together making things, which she herself does
with her own child every week. (Monday model night) Marilyn is the author
of The Toymaker: Paper Toys That You Can Make Yourself, the best
selling paper toy book on Amazon.com. To read about the quirky life of a children's book illustrator and paper engineer, visit her blog at http://www.livejournal.com/users/thetoymaker/ Marilyn started her own design firm after supervising a team of seven designers for Nike, designing thousands of baseball caps, and creating full clothing lines for companies like Harley Davidson, Arctic Cat and Yamaha. Over the years her clients have included Mercedes Benz, Porsche, Pacific Sunwear, Jaguar, BMW, Fender Guitars, Cindy Crawford and the Department of the Defense. She cried when she realized running her own business meant she could finally attend her kid's preschool field trips. She keeps busy illustrating children’s books. Marilyn is a member of Mensa, which she joined to meet guys who read books outside the bathroom. It worked. She is blissfully married to a clever man, and they have a twelve-year-old son. Marilyn is also the illustrator of the children's booksThe Search for Vile Things for Scholastic, Bowregarde and Bowregarde's Hospital Handbook, and is the creator of the online comic, The Return of Doctor Dragonwagon. She is currently illustrating an intriguing book series for Henry Holt, a series of paper toy books for Sterling Publishing and thinks toys can help make the world a better place. |
| Marilyn Scott-Waters Represented
by Jamie Weiss Chilton,
Andrea
Brown Literary Agency
Marilyn Scott-Waters’ recent work includes the series THE SEARCH FOR VILE THINGS (Scholastic, Fall ’08), and the paper engineering for POP & SNIFF FRUIT (Piggy Toes Press, Spring ’08). Her paper toy book series THE TOYMAKER is forthcoming from Sterling. Marilyn, together with J. H. Everett, is co-creator of the middle grade nonfiction series HAUNTED HISTORIES, forthcoming from Henry Holt. |