Creativity Friday: FOR THE KING giveaway winner!

Drumroll please! Congratulations to DAKOTA—I’ll be sending you an e-mail shortly with information on how to claim your copy of Catherine Delors’ historical fiction book FOR THE KING.I hope you will enjoy it!

More posts coming soon! There is just so much going on here that I haven’t had a moment to spare:

1. The first draft of my novel THE LILY MAID has been turned in. I’m awaiting feedback from my agent any moment now….. (gnaws knuckles). in the meantime, I’m immersing myself in research for the next go ’round. My reading material includes biographies of two famous Pre-Raphaelite muses, Elizabeth Siddal and Jane Morris—my main character in THE LILY MAID becomes a muse to an influential artist during 1880s’ England.

2. We’re in the midst of designing and hanging a new show at the gallery which is being curated by my husband, anthropologist Thomas Ross Miller. It’s entitled ON THE ROAD OF BONES. This haunting art exhibit will feature native Siberian and American photographers documenting Russia’s Old Kolyma Highway, built by prisoners of Stalin’s infamous gulag.

3. I’m finalizing several e-books for the iPad. These include SACRED ANIMALS and an old picture book favorite, RAPUNZEL.

4. And so much more—and all before we leave on vacation in mid-August.

And how is your summer shaping up?

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We’ve been featured…

…in Tarot Tips, the official newsletter of The Tarot School. Art and Words is their featured blog for their May 15th issue.

I’m very pleased by this honor! Here’s what was written:

Creator of the Goddess Tarot, The Lovers Tarot, and illustrator of the Anubis Oracle Deck and several new decks on the way, Kris Waldherr is a prolific artist and writer. Her blog and site features her personal journey of the creative process. Very cool for all aspiring authors!”

If you don’t already subscribe to Tarot Tips, you can do so here.

In other news:

~ There’s just one more day to enter Stephanie Cowell’s CLAUDE & CAMILLE book giveaway.

~ Related note: I’ll have reviews of CLAUDE & CAMILLE and DAUGHTERS OF THE WITCHING HILL on this blog in June. They’re both wonderful novels — I highly recommend them!

~ I’m pleased to have worked with C. W. Gortner on the video for his new historical fiction novel, THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI. It comes out May 25th. Publication day is almost here — congratulations, Christopher! I hope it sells gazillions of copies. (Watch the video on YouTube here.)

~ On the work front, there’s lots going on as usual. My main project right now: I’m hunkered down in an attempt to finally finally finish the first draft of The Novel. Toward that end, I’ll be going away on a writer’s retreat Memorial Day weekend (similar to what I did in January when I went to Montreal). A very generous and kind friend is loaning me her house outside Boston for the weekend. Wish me luck!

~ And The Novel finally has a title: THE LILY MAID. It’s a quote from a poem in Tennyson’s IDYLLS OF THE KING, one of my inspirations for The Novel.

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We’re in Time Out New York – and Tarot Salon reminder

There’s a nice write up of my little studio-gallery in this week’s Time Out New York. It’s part of their “Great Walks/Own This City” issue — they’ve included my ‘hood Ditmas Park (aka Victorian Brooklyn). Here’s what they wrote:

Look for a small blue sign that points you to Kris Waldherr Art and Words (1501 Newkirk Ave at Marlborough Rd; 347-406-5811, artandwords.com). Waldherr—an author, illustrator and designer—turns her studio into an open gallery on Fridays (5–8pm) and Saturdays (1–5pm), when she also hosts tarot salons, publishing workshops and art-themed activities for kids (suggested donation $5). Passersby are welcome to stop in during open gallery hours and peruse Waldherr’s book art and photography exhibits free of charge. While the focus here is on literature and illustration, Waldherr boasts some techie cred, too: Ask her about Goddess Tarot, the application she developed for the iPhone.”

Read the rest of the article here. I’m pleased that they included many places that I frequent myself — from the Castello Plan to Vox Pop, my favorite coffeehouse. Who knows, maybe I’ll see you there one day myself.
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Speaking of tarot salons, tomorrow is the last Friday of the month*, which means it’s tarot salon time! This month,  I’ll be joined by tarot reading/Body Love Wellness founder Golda Poretsky and Fusion Spa’s Fran Dunston (the best masseuse ever). Here’s the deets:

Friday, April 30, 7 – 9:30 pm
TAROT SALON – SPRING EDITION
Free admission and refreshments.

1501 Newkirk Avenue (entrance on Marlborough Road)
Brooklyn, NY 11226 | 347-406-5811
Subway: Q or B to Newkirk Avenue; gallery is around the corner from station.
Street parking is available.

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Final notice: The DAUGHTERS OF THE WITCHING HILL giveaway continues! Today is the last chance to enter since the giveaway ends at midnight. To enter, all you need to do is comment here. There’s also a wonderful interview by author Mary Sharratt about her creation of the novel.

*Not sure if we’ll be having a tarot salon in May because of the holiday weekend that month. If so, we’ll be returning on the last Friday of the month in June. Promise.

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How do designers choose a typeface?

Here’s a handy dandy flow chart to demystify the process for you. Click here or below to view the chart in its entirety.

Fun and not that far off base!

(A tip of the hat to Michael McWatter’s digital design blog for bringing this graphic to my attention.)

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Only two days left to enter the DAUGHTERS OF THE WITCHING HILL book giveaway! The winner will be announced on this blog on Friday.

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Authors at the gallery: Stephanie Cowell

Here in Art and Words land, I’m getting back up to speed in the studio. Thea was off from school last week, which reduced my hours here. There’s so much going on these days: iPad apps, e-books, The Novel (which now has a title), book videos (working on a new one for C. W. Gortner, author of the upcoming THE CONFESSIONS OF CATHERINE DE MEDICI) and another delectable piece of news which is too early to reveal.

Let’s just say that I’m impersonating Elastigirl again.

On the gallery front, I’m delighted that author Stephanie Cowell will be visiting us this Friday to give a reading from her highly acclaimed new novel CLAUDE AND CAMILLE. I’m in the midst of reading it right now –  it’s wonderful! The good news is that whether you live in NYC or in places far flung, you can join us. We’ll be livestreaming this event again, just as we did for Mary Sharratt’s reading last month.

Hope to see you here or there! Here are the details:

Friday, April 16, 7 pm
AUTHORS AT THE GALLERY: STEPHANIE COWELL
Book Event and Author Q&A
Free admission. Refreshments provided.

WATCH IT: We’ll be livestreaming this event on April 16 starting at 7: 15 pm. Watch it here.

EXCLUSIVE: Meet bestselling author Stephanie Cowell (MARRYING MOZART) as she presents and signs her new novel CLAUDE & CAMILLE. Monet is one the world’s most esteemed painters, known as one of the founders of the Impressionist movement. But what is known of Monet before he was “Monet,” when he was simply “Claude”—a handsome, obscure, twenty-five-year-old painter, loyal to his friends and in love with an enigmatic upper-class girl? In Stephanie Cowell’s CLAUDE & CAMILLE: A Novel of Monet, she tells the tragic love story of the young, unknown painter and his great muse, Camille Doncieux.

This is the second of a series of book events at Kris Waldherr Art and Words gallery. Our first one was for Mary Sharratt’s DAUGHTERS OF THE WITCHING HILL. Watch the livestream here.

Advance Praise for CLAUDE & CAMILLE:

“To be swept up by this novel which reveals the man and woman behind–no, in, the waterlily paintings, the seascapes and landscapes, is a heartbreak. The story is lovely, touching, delicately written, and extraordinarily compelling. Read it with a book of Monet’s paintings by your side, and be prepared to marvel, and to weep.”
— SUSAN VREELAND, author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue and Luncheon of the Boating Party

“A convincing narrative about how masterpieces are created and a detailed portrait of a complex couple, Cowell’s novel suggests that a fabulous, if flawed, love is the source of both the beauty and sadness of Monet’s art.”
— Publisher’s Weekly

This event takes place at:
KRIS WALDHERR ART AND WORDS studio-gallery
1501 Newkirk Avenue (entrance on Marlborough Road)
Brooklyn, NY 11226
347-406-5811
B or Q to Newkirk Avenue Station; street parking is available.

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