art is underway

Right now, I’m about halfway through the art for Doomed Queens — and I’ve just over six weeks to go until my final deadline. As an amuse bouche, here is my drawing of Catherine of Aragon, which was gamely posed for by my friend Diane Saarinen. Yes, I’m designing each drawing as sort of a royal danse macabre through queenly history.

Quick trivia question: Can you name the other wives of Henry VIII surrounding her? To jog your memory, here’s that old rhyme:

Divorced, beheaded, died;
Divorced, beheaded, survived.

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save the date!

Though I’ve posted this over on my “events” page, I thought I should mention this here.

I’m opening my new studio/gallery to the public for the first time in June, as part of the Flatbush Artists Studio Tour! Autographed books, art, prints, cards and decks will be available for purchase. 27 artists will be participating in this self-guided studio tour located in historic Victorian Brooklyn.

Here’s the pertinent info:

June 7 - 8, 2008, noon to 5pm:

Kris Waldherr Art and Words
1501 Newkirk Avenue (entrance on Marlborough Road)
Brooklyn, NY 11226

Directions: Q train to Newkirk Avenue. Studio is around the corner from subway.
Street parking is available.
Map and driving directions.
for further info: e-comment at artandwords dot com.

I hope to see some of you then!

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publishing 101: self publishing, take two

In my neck of the woods (better known as Ditmas Park, Brooklyn), Publish Yourself! offers aspiring authors a authentically DIY publishing experience. It’s also the offspring business from my favorite local coffee house, Vox Pop, where I’ve enjoyed many a playdate with other busy moms-of-toddlers.

Our local NBC news affiliate recently featured Publish Yourself! in a short piece. It’s an interesting take on  how easy it is to get a book in print, though the piece offers little regarding the realities of book distribution. As my literary agent would say, publishing is more than just printing up books.

Click here to view the Publish Yourself! video

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the queens are semi-live

The Doomed Queens website is semi-live. By semi-live, I mean that though the whole site isn’t up yet, I’ve posted a temporary home page. Eventually the content on DoomedQueens.com will expand to include a quiz to accertain your risk of marching to the scaffold, a Youtube video (produced by Random House, natch), and a host of other darkly fun yet oddly empowering content.

For now, the home page will grant you a royal taste of what’s to come. It also features a Doomed Queens cautionary moral of the day (which are sprinkled throughout the book). My personal favorite is for Princess Diana: “Beware of men bearing Camillas and cameras.” Useful advice indeed!

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