Glimmer, Sing of Sun! As collaborator/illustrator Carina Povarchik prepares for the release of her third children's book with Clear Fork Publishing, titled Glimmer, Sing of Sun! I thought it was high time to get the inside scoop!

When is your most inspirational time to illustrate? Carina: I'm definitely a morning person- light, birds singing, and for sure bright sunny days. Although autumn and all its colors inspire me, I really need happy light and blue skies to feel the Universe is on the same page with me :)

I appreciate the magical mood of the night, the moonlight, glimmery stars. But that gives me a different state of heart, into a more grateful and meditative one, makes me enter a kind of silent mode, not the happy "weeee" one for creating.

Your guilty pleasure is?....is buying myself a new notebook/journal. I feel guilty cause I really have plenty of them -brand new, waiting for me in a shelf to be used. I have such a soft spot for papers, journals, notebooks. Handmade, crafted, or industrial, big, tiny, rectangular, squared...I love them. In fact, I even make many of them myself for using as sketchbooks, or for keeping a personal yearly journal, or studying.

What's your worst habit in regards to creative work?
I guess it would be getting bored too soon in long projects. But as time passes, I've learned to take some little breaks in my long projects if needed, and to change my point of view which reinvigorates my energy.

Carina, who would you love to be stuck on an elevator with? What other artist/author/creative person? Mhhh, I do have a list for that one. But let's see, if I had to pick only one, it would be Lee White (alive, and I feel he is also approachable). If I consider someone not alive right now, it would be Charles Chaplin.

Who's your hero?
My dad of course! If not him, then Lagherta because she is a badass girl. And I admire so many outstanding author and illustrator souls out there! Their perseverance, hard work, amazing ideas, and their craft - all heroic!