Tag Archives: literary fiction

MARTIAN WAKEUP CALL

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Veronica Knox

The sleeping Mars from ‘VENUS & MARS’ – SANDRO BOTTICELLI What do we actually know about Sandro Botticelli? What can we possibly know?  These are two different questions, and we can only answer the latter – the educated guess being … Continue reading →

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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Veronica Knox

            April 15 – 1452 The illegitimate son of a lawyer and a woman we know only as Catarina, is born in the town of Vinci, in Tuscany, Italy. The child’s unspectacular entrance into the … Continue reading →

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PEARL EARRINGS, A RED HAT, and A SMILE

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Veronica Knox

Be it an iconic image, a true representation, or a ‘tronie’, a face belies a thousand secrets A TRONIE: a face created from memory or a consummate sketch of several people and costumes that ‘stand in’ for no ‘one’ in … Continue reading →

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PITCHING ON A STORMY SEA

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Veronica Knox

The concept you pitch could turn out to be the story that cannot be named! I’m an indie author. And one thing I’ve learned, after pitching directly to agents at a writers conference, is that beauty is in the eye … Continue reading →

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PARANORMAL – IS TOO STRONG A WORD

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Veronica Knox

BECAUSE LIFE IS ONE BIG X-FILE UFO = Unidentified Fictional Objectivity Paranormal has become a four-letter word for those of us who write in its general vicinity. But softer words may be used to describe a ‘stranger than fiction’ story … Continue reading →

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SO… I WALKED INTO THIS MUSEUM…

Posted on March 21, 2017 by Veronica Knox

… and I came out with a story. Or, to be more precise, it followed me home and shadowed me for three years. And now it’s coming up to the first anniversary, of self-publishing ‘THE UNTHINKABLE SHOES’, appropriately, the traditional … Continue reading →

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WHERE WERE YOU?

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Veronica Knox

If meditation is time travel, then I have been there with Leonardo and Sandro and Lisa. I brushed against their cloaks of country-rough sackcloth or city-thick velvet trimmed in fur, and run my fingers over the heavy embroidered stuff of … Continue reading →

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WALK THIS WAY

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Veronica Knox

Sometimes, to understand history, you must put yourself in another person’s shoes. Walk with me… Pretend for a moment that you are a master painter. You live in fifteenth-century Florence. It takes you over a year to complete a masterpiece. … Continue reading →

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BEING ON TIME

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Veronica Knox

HEART HISTORY & THE FINE ART OF TIME TRAVEL I ART My historical research is a personal renaissance of time-slipping into the past and materializing –truly being there, here, and everywhere via the art of 360 degrees of travel, and twenty-twenty vision. … Continue reading →

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FICTION – CRAZIER THAN QUANTUM PHYSICS

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Veronica Knox

BEING WAY OUT THERE A master of ceremonies on a pantomime stage, sidles up to the edge of the stage wearing his top hat and tails, waves his arms, and addresses the audience: “Did you know the universe is crazier … Continue reading →

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