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THE ‘MONA’LOGUE
For anyone who wonders if it’s true that writers’ characters can get inside an author’s head, the answer is… absolutely. Personally, I welcome such invasions because there are iffy times when my muse and I are at complete odds. “SPEAK … Continue reading
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SCIENCE-FRICTION VS. ‘ART-OFFICIAL’ INTELLIGENCE
These days, life is a creepy puzzle. Who knew? Turns out there are aliens among us – some too small to see. But some have always been larger than life… I’m looking at you, LEO! WHEN GENRES AREN’T US … … Continue reading
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APRIL 15th… A GOOD DAY / BAD DAY
It may have been Charles Dickens who inspired the loaded announcement ‘I have good news and bad news’ in his famous opening line: ‘It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.’ Of all the April 15ths … Continue reading
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CHARACTERS DYING TO TELL THEIR TALES
Presenting three of my artful characters dying to speak: LISABETTA BUTI (the ‘Mona Lisa’ and Leonardo da Vinci’s kid sister), SANDRO BOTTICELLI (fifteenth-century master painter), and FINN CLEARY (a child victim onboard Titanic) When the red leaves fall, the October … Continue reading
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CELEBRATION OF A TYPO
…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!
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
‘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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TIS’ THE SEASON
for ghostly goings on When the last red leaves fall, the October sky darkens with rain and snow, and the frost on the pumpkin glows silver in the moonlight, banish the endless stream of seasonal macabre that play on human … Continue reading
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PEARL EARRINGS, A RED HAT, and A SMILE
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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WHERE WERE YOU?
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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