Category Archives: Adoration

THE CATERPILLAR METHOD

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Veronica Knox

The caterpillar, in ‘Alice in Wonderland’, advises Alice (at a loss to tell her story), to “start at the beginning… go onto the end, then stop.” Smart Lepidoptera! A story is a chrysalis of transformation. A first draft must become … Continue reading →

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SOMETIMES, SCIENCE FICTION IS SIMPLY A MYSTICAL LOVE STORY… SOMETIMES IT TAKES TWO LIVES TO MAKE ONE WOMAN!

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Veronica Knox

Delphi Sharpe, an autistic teenage orphan with the extrasensory ability to converse with birds and paintings, has a tenuous grip on reality. After she falls in love with a boy named Cecco who calls to her from a 500-year-old painting, … Continue reading →

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A RENAISSANCE TREATISE OF UNDYING LOVE

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Veronica Knox

Love survives five-hundred years of dust to rekindle the bittersweet romance between the ghost of Sandro Botticelli and a retired art history professor. As a teenager in 1967, I’d been the poster girl for romantic dreamers in love with love. … Continue reading →

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THE BAREFOOT GHOST

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Veronica Knox

The Titanic disaster changes the destiny of Finn Cleary, a drowned Irish boy whose pained mother had admonished him before sailing: “KEEP YOUR FIRST PAIR OF STORE-BOUGHT SHOES CLEAN AND UNSCUFFED TO MEET YOUR COUSINS IN NEW YORK OR I’LL … Continue reading →

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‘THE INDIGO PEARL’

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Veronica Knox

Following a phantom robin through the painted caves of Lascaux’s ‘hall of the horses’, takes THE SPIRIT OF DELPHI SHARPE, AN AUTISTIC TEENAGE GIRL IN A COMA, ON A POSTHUMOUS SEARCH FOR THE BOY IN A 500-YEAR-OLD PAINTING SHE FELL … Continue reading →

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THE GHOST OF SNOW

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Veronica Knox

Lady Nan closed her book of ghost stories with a snap and waggled her finger at her spellbound grandchildren “And so,” she said. “If you really want something enough, a little thing like dying won’t stop you.” Curmudgeonly Bede Hall … Continue reading →

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LIGHT AT THE END OF THE CLOISTER

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Veronica Knox

I like to think that there are no clichés without fire. As an author, I’ve been coached (read commanded) by mentors and editors, to avoid writing clichés like the p l – g – e. (Nope, not going to give … Continue reading →

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DEAR JOHN

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Veronica Knox

JOHN DONNE wrote ‘no man is an island’… but now we have to be:     “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod … Continue reading →

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THERE’S GHOSTS IN MY CHEESE

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Veronica Knox

THE FIRST HELLO It was lunchtime in my kitchen. Innocent of anything untoward, I hummed cheerfully as I assembled the ingredients for a sandwich. Not owning a great musical voice, I make it a point to only hum in private … Continue reading →

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LEONARDO’S CAT

Posted on December 11, 2019 by Veronica Knox

            Leonardo da Vinci was big on alchemy – the science of his day, especially, the magic of mathematical proportions when it came to drawing the perfect human body. His famous spread-eagle illustration ‘The Vitruvian … Continue reading →

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