Sheila Martin http://sheilapmartin.com Author and Illustrator Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 120596660 Sheila’s Ink Drawings: Some Faces that Escaped from my Mind http://sheilapmartin.com/sheilas-ink-drawings-some-faces-that-escaped-from-my-mind/ http://sheilapmartin.com/sheilas-ink-drawings-some-faces-that-escaped-from-my-mind/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:58:36 +0000 http://sheilapmartin.com/?p=2653 There are multiple faces in numbers 64, 66, and 70. Can you find them?

#58

 

#56

 

 

#60

 

#61

 

#63

 

#64

 

#65

 

#66

 

#68

 

#67

 

#73

 

#71

 

#69

 

#74

 

#70

 

#57

 

#72

 

#62

 

 

 

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Drawing #45

 

Drawing #51

 

Drawing #47

 

Drawing #49

 

Drawing #52

 

Drawing #50

 

Drawing #46

 

Drawing #53

 

Drawing #48

 

Drawing #54

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Sheila’s Gel Ink Drawings

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My husband Jim modeling for a reference photo of the body in blood in the novel.

On February 15, 2019 I finally finished my novel, The Time Artist, which has been in the works, on and off, since 2007. This is a big deal in my life. This round of revisions took me one year of intense concentration and three complete drafts. It’s in my editor’s queue, so there might be revisions.

The logline:

A passionate art student sees a body face down in a pool of blood through what she believes to be her future eyes. She then struggles to understand the structure of time to help her prevent this vision from becoming reality.

 

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I just heard from Grace Mott, a lovely person who was very enthusiastic about my book. She’s the office manager of The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD. It was being renovated when I accepted my First Novel Prize there in September and is now completed. I’m happy to say a remnant of me remains in the form of a print of one of the illustrations from my book “The Coney Island Book of the Dead ” which they rehung in their newly painted reading room.

If anyone is interested in perusing my prints please go to: https://www.imagekind.com/MemberProfile.aspx?MID=adc88019-17ec-4145-87fd-031cbc9f818c

 

 

 

 

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The Coney Island Book of the Dead didn’t win, but they gave it a very good commentary:

Inventive, imaginative, and with a fine set of hallucinatory-themed illustrations gracing each chapter, this book shows the mind of an eleven year old girl as she reacts to mystical tales from family and friends at Coney Island attractions. Dybbuks, molochs, the Angel of Death and visions of the afterlife parade through her consciousness as she is fed odd but affecting tales from several sources: Yiddish tales by her family, stories from friends at attractions on the Boardwalk, like the “return” of Houdini at Ripley’s Oddities; and anecdotes of life in Mississippi from a Blues singer she becomes friends with flow through her mind. She is forced to react to the reality that comes from losses of life, human and canine, while developing her own set of beliefs and values in her rich fantasy life. The setting is Brooklyn and Coney Island in 1957 and many renowned places like the Cyclone and WonderWheel surface as she undergoes many strange and dangerous experiences leading to an operation for an inter-cranial hematoma. Her relationship with strident members of her family and the story-telling singer from Mississippi give the novel a very touching element. As the boundaries of the heroine’s imagination expand with the material she takes in, her character is well delineated. The other characters march into her mind with stunning vigor. The first-person writing is fresh with color and insights, both profane and bizarre. The dialogue, filled with Yiddish words and expressions, captures life in this famous part of New York. Many soulful lyrics embellish the lively text. The cover with its eye-stirring title, coupled with a bizarrely evocative cover image, is bound to attract potential readers.
—Judge, 26th Annual Writer’s Digest Self–Published Book Awards.

 

]]> http://sheilapmartin.com/writers-digest-review/feed/ 0 2470 Marilyn and I visit the old homestead http://sheilapmartin.com/marilyn-and-i-visit-the-old-homestead/ http://sheilapmartin.com/marilyn-and-i-visit-the-old-homestead/#respond Wed, 24 Oct 2018 01:45:39 +0000 http://sheilapmartin.com/?p=2462 Here are two photos of Marilyn and me in front of the house I based Evil Aunt Suzie’s boarding house on. (It was one of Marilyn’s childhood homes) One photo was taken in the mid-1950s and the other a couple of weeks ago.

 

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