LISABETTA – a stolen glance
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BEDE SERIES
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ADORATION
'ADORATION- LOVING BOTTICELLI' by V KNOX
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A ‘DOGGED STAR’ IS BORN
‘DOGGED STAR’ – When the teenage Leonardo Da Vinci experiences a spontaneous emotional outburst while painting his first masterpiece, he unwittingly initiates a long-term long-distance love affair that defies physics. An extraordinary romance spanning five-centuries transpires inspired by the dogged … Continue reading
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THE ‘MONA LISA’… ARTFUL or POSSESSED? … THE NINE-TENTHS RULE
Is the ‘Mona Lisa’ beguiling or smiling? Alluring or obscuring? Devious or mischievous? Is she artful or possessed? In my fictional account of her life, ‘LISABETTA – a stolen glance’, she is all of the above. POSSESSION IS NINE-TENTHS OF … Continue reading
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100 NAMES FOR SNOW
Excerpt from ‘SNOW BEHIND THE DOOR’, the prequel to the ‘Bede Trilogy’, in Snow’s words: [The first beginning I remember was arriving at Bede Hall with my father on a bitterly cold, snowy English day in August of the year … Continue reading
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THE ‘SENDING’
The cat flap in Sara Goodman’s kitchen glowed green and began to rock gently, in time to the clock on the wall ticking the last few seconds to midnight. The flap swung more urgently until it froze, fully open, wide … Continue reading
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AUTISM, SENTIENT BIRDS, and the GHOST of a PRINCIPESSA
A MYSTICAL ROMANCE of YOUNG LOVE and OLD SOULS 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 in … Continue reading
Posted in ARCHAEOLOGY, art history, Books, fantasy, Fine Art, Florence, Florence. Italy, ghosts, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Italian renaissance, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci, literary fiction, Lost Paintings, magical realism, mythology, PAINTINGS, paranormal romance, PEARL BY PEARL, REINCARNATION, romance, science fiction, Silent K Publishing, SILENT K PUBLISHING, supernatural, The INDIGO PEARL, time travel, TIME TRAVEL, V Knox, V. Knox author, Veronica Knox author
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A RENAISSANCE TREATISE OF UNDYING LOVE
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
Posted in Adoration, art history, Books, fantasy, Florence, Florence. Italy, ghosts, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Italian renaissance, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci, PAINTINGS, paranormal romance, REINCARNATION, romance, Sandro Botticelli, Silent K Publishing, SILENT K PUBLISHING, supernatural, time travel, V Knox, V. Knox author, Veronica Knox author
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THREE TIMES THE CHARM
The Bede Trilogy spans 8 years, following a pair of telepathic twins from preteen to official adulthood. Kit and his sister Bash, at odds over logic and the supernatural, fight increasing feelings of sibling rivalry when faced with a challenge … Continue reading
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FROM BACK TO FRONT and INTO THE MIDDLE AGAIN
‘TOMORROW AGAIN’ book three of the Bede Series middle-grade time-slip trilogy is complete, summarized here in its defining elements. BACK BLURB: My grandmother’s best friend was the ghost of my daughter whom she met sixty years before I was born. … Continue reading
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DISAPPEARANCES CAN BE REVEALING
TEENAGER AURELIA MARCUS DISAPPEARED LONG BEFORE SHE RAN AWAY FROM HOME – A GHOST STORY ABOUT A PAINTING that refuses to stay on the canvas. A troubled teenager’s life alters drastically when A FAULTY SLIDE PROJECTOR IN AN ART HISTORY … Continue reading
INTRODUCING ‘TIME-SENSITIVE FICTION’
MIDDLE-GRADE TIME SLIP ADVENTURES WRITTEN IN LITERARY PROSE FOR THE ADULT READER – an adapted genre from author V Knox If time stands still anywhere, it’s at Bede. If ghosts haunt anywhere it’s in Bede Hall Bede Hall hovers in … Continue reading
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