March 2, 2013
A Friendship with Flowers (New Publication)
I have a new publication
incorporating poetic musings
and flower illustrations.
This journal was originally created by hand while I was living in Oxfordshire, England in the 1980′s, during the year or so after my father suddenly passed away. I spent a month in the States with my mom, and came back to a time that proved more difficult than I expected.
One of the things that helped was the TV series “The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady” (also an exquisite book) that was airing on the BBC . I unashamedly admit that it inspired my undertaking of this work.
The book was done with gratefulness for the flowers that graced and healed me with their beauty, wisdom, and playfulness.
At this time, it is available through lulu.com,
where you can also see a preview.
The Original Journal
I hope that it will bring a few others the soothing joy it offered me while making it once … and then again.
A special thank you to my mom and D. Bennison for continuing to encourage me to get this done!
Blessings to you all.
©Artwork and writing, unless otherwise indicated, are the property of Diane M Denton. Please request permission to reproduce or post elsewhere with a link back to bardessdmdenton. Thank you.
August 23, 2012
Announcing Release Date for My Novel, A House Near Luccoli
September 1, 2012!
It will be published by All Things That Matter Press, available in paperback and as an eBook. If you would like to receive notification of how to obtain a copy, please click here: http://www.dmdenton-author-artist.com/contact.html.
Alternatively, email me @ astradellasojourn@earthlink.net to let me know you are interested.
This historical fiction takes place in Genoa, Italy, 1681 -1682. For more information regarding its story and background, please visit the novel’s page on my website: http://www.dmdenton-author-artist.com/a-house-near-luccoli-a-novel-of-musical-intimacy–intrigue.html
Below are links to a couple of excerpts, and here is the blurb from the back cover:
A House Near Luccoli, focuses on chance encounters, beautiful music, and the paradox of genius through an imagined intimacy with one of the most legendary and undervalued figures of Italian Baroque music.
Over three years since the charismatic composer, violinist, and singer Alessandro Stradella sought refuge in the palaces and twisted alleys of Genoa, royally welcomed despite the alleged scandals and even crimes that forced him to flee from Rome, Venice, and Turin, his professional and personal life have begun to unravel again. He is offered, by the very man he is rumored to have wronged, a respectable if slightly shabby apartment and yet another chance to redeem his character and career. He moves in to the curiosity and consternation of his caretakers, also tenants, three women whose reputations are of concern only to themselves.
Donatella, still unmarried in her mid-thirties, is plainly irrelevant. Yet, like the city she lives in, there are hidden longings in her, propriety the rule, not cure, for what ails her. She cares more for her bedridden grandmother and cats than overbearing aunt, keeping house and tending to a small terraced garden, painting flowers and waxing poetic in her journal. At first, she is in awe of and certain she will have little to do with Stradella. Slowly, his ego, playfulness, need of a copyist and camouflage involve her in an inspired and insidious world, exciting and heartbreaking as she is enlarged by his magnanimity and reduced by his missteps, forging a friendship that challenges how far she will go.
Excerpts:
First Chapter
Random
Cover Artwork©
by DM Denton
I appreciate your time and interest. Blessings to all!
©Artwork and writing, unless otherwise indicated, are the property of Diane M Denton. Please request permission to reproduce or post elsewhere with a link back to bardessdmdenton. Thank you.
April 26, 2012
Announcement: My New Website is Live!
This is a quick post to announce that my new author (DM Denton) website is now online:
http://www.dmdenton-author-artist.com/
I invite you to stroll along ‘my appointed sands’ and enjoy! And I welcome your feedback, as always, here or through my website via the contact form (I would love to put you on an emailing list for notification of the release and availability of my novel, A House Near Luccoli).
I so appreciate your support. Blessings, love and peace to all!
Copyright 2012 by DM Denton
©Artwork and writing, unless otherwise indicated, are the property of Diane M Denton. Please request permission to reproduce or post elsewhere with a link back to bardessdmdenton. Thank you.
October 8, 2012
Announcement: Comments Are Now Open on My Last Post
Posted in Announcements, Art, Nature, Writing tagged A Home for Oscar, Comments Open, Friends, Mouse at 1:18 pm by bardessdmdenton
Thanks for all the views and likes of my last post, A Home for Oscar. I apologize that somehow the comments were closed on it. They are now open and I would love to have your feedback. It is always nice to hear the voices of my blogging friends!
And since you’re here: a little mouse wanted to say hello, too …
Copyright 2011 by DM Denton
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