Author Archives: Veronica Knox

About Veronica Knox

Veronica Knox has a Fine Arts Degree from the University of Alberta, where she studied Art History, Classical Studies, and Painting. In her career as a graphic designer, illustrator, private art teacher, and ‘fine artist,’ she has also worked with the brain-injured and autistic, developing new theories of hand-to-eye-to-mind connection. Veronica lives on the west coast of Canada, supporting local animal rescue shelters, painting, writing, editing other author’s novels, and championing the conservation of tigers and elephants, and their habitats. Her artwork and visuals to support ‘Second Lisa’ may be viewed on her website - www.veronicaknox.com

IT’S FELIX TIME

Posted on September 25, 2019

WHAT BETTER WAY TO MEASURE TIME TRAVEL IS THERE THAN BY CONSULTING A MUSE WHO IS AN ANIMATED (read imbued with life) CLOCK     A muse is invisible – a voice in one’s head with more knowledge than one … Continue reading →

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LEONARDO’S CAMERA…

Posted on March 23, 2019

the low tech high-renaissance 15th century i-phone Leonardo carried these ‘libricini’ (tiny notebooks) everywhere to record what he saw and jot down ideas. Texting was 500 years in Leonardo’s future. Writing was awkward. It’s not as if Leonardo carried a … Continue reading →

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LEONARDO’S GHOST DOG… BEST IN SHOW

Posted on February 19, 2019

There is a fifteenth-century Italian painting in the National Gallery of London entitled ‘TOBIAS AND THE ANGEL’. I have a love/hate relationship with this 33 in. x 26 in. panel for a Florentine altarpiece. No doubt, this painting seen from … Continue reading →

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CELEBRATION OF A TYPO

Posted on January 15, 2019

…how a 500-year-old spelling mistake was enough to confound history and gift me a premise for a time-slip ghost story                 Excerpt from ‘LISABETTA-a stolen glance’ [But for a single misshapen letter, I … Continue reading →

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READING IS BELIEVING!

Posted on December 29, 2018

If you believe in second childhoods… I invite you to time-slip with me into worlds where buildings and trees speak truths that can save the world. Cross the borders of liminal consciousness of my stories and visit haunted realms inhabited … Continue reading →

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I RECEIVED A LAUNDERED REVIEW

Posted on December 6, 2018

‘THE INDIGO PEARL’ by V KNOX is ALL WASHED UP! The dangers of being a book: It’s dangerous to casually ask a man to please strip the sheets and throw them in the wash. More dangerous still, to be tumble … Continue reading →

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SCIENCE AT FIFTY PACES

Posted on November 27, 2018

A TIME-SLIP FANTASY for the ‘GRAND-CHILD’ in all of us A STORY EQUATION WHERE FACT MEETS FICTION E (entertainment) = mc (main characters… 2) squared (twinned exponential trouble) [The relative speed of a story within a book is the same … Continue reading →

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