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Hammer of God by Aria Ligi (Book Review #638)
Passe-Partout by Steve Sanders (Book Review #636)
When Artistry and Technology Collide: How the Truly Unique Images for the New Children’s Book, Chicago Treasure, were Created By Rich Green
When Artistry and Technology Collide: How the Truly Unique Images for the New Children’s Book, Chicago Treasure, were Created By Rich Green
Award-winning photographer and author Larry Broutman approached me with an unusual artistic proposition. His idea was so fantastical that it actually came to him in a dream. He woke up one morning with the concept of taking photographs of children and turning them into the main characters of classic stories by placing them inside an illustrated storybook world.
To make this fantasy a reality, he took photographs of Chicago-area children, many of whom have special needs, posing as their favorite heroes from well-known fairy tales, nursery rhymes, folk tales, and fables. I then created the supporting characters and magical backdrops using pencil and paper sketches and Photoshop. Read More
Writing A Book For Nobody By David Kummer
Writing A Book For Nobody By David Kummer
Whatever you do, save yourself. Don’t write a book.
That’s the advice I would give to someone if they asked for it. But then I would probably take it back (probably), and I’d clarify my meaning. “Don’t write a book for somebody else.”
By that, I mean don’t write a book with the expectation that other people are going to read it. They probably aren’t. Sorry.
Visualization by Regina McDonald
Visualization. If someone were to ask you to describe the moment when your brain began forming pictures while reading or listening to a book, would you have a moment in time when written words suddenly burst into images of living color, scenes, characters, or experiences? Was there an epiphany moment when stiff, textured, cream-colored pages written in Times New Roman with the smell of ink on paper suddenly transformed into a collection of living, breathing, moving, raw, emotional, pictu
res? Read More
A short conversation with Aria Ligi
Hammer of God was first conceived as I was writing a screenplay for a character whose personal angst was a kind of mirror to my own. Charlotte, who is the protagonist of the titular poem on page one and is referred to on page seven in the entitled poem Charlotte Dreaming, was raised in the backwoods of West Virginia by evangelical fundamentalist Christians. Charlotte though is different from all of them because she has psychic abilities which they construe to be gifts from the devil. It was from this premise, that I began a series of poems for her which then morphed and expanded from her personal pain to my own.
Is Love the answer? by Kurt Brindley
Is Love the answer? by Kurt Brindley
There’s a rather talkative pigheaded brute of a character in my latest release, a dark, violent thriller called THE GOOD KILL, whose name is Rick, Happy, Henderson.
Happy is an unscrupulous thug of a security guard for an unscrupulous thug of a billionaire mogul and he is quite the talker. He especially loves to philosophize and pontificate to… at?… his work partner Sean, Big Mac, McKnight as if he’s now a subject matter expert about whatever the latest topic is that he’s studying during night school.
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