Mood:  mischievious

My Mass Market Paperback book MANHATTAN GRIMOIRE is available at HORROR MALL. COM. Also available at AMAZON.COM and BARNES & NOBLE

https://www.horror-mall.com/MANHATTAN-GRIMOIRE-by-Sandy-DeLuca-Trade-Paperback-p-18569.html

My Digital Novel FROM ASHES is also available at HORROR MALL

 http://www.deliriumbooks.com/site_news/from-ashes/

My Digital Novel DESCENT at HORROR MALL (first print edition 2005)

http://www.horror-mall.com/DESCENT-by-Sandy-DeLuca-Digital-Edition-p-18639.html

View My Art at FINE ART AMERCIA

 http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/sandy-deluca.html

View My Art at SAATCHI GALLLERY in London

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//93048.html

View My Art at ART-3000

http://www.art-3000.com/artist/?id=614

View My Art at HELLO NEW YORK CITY

http://www.hellonewyorkcity.com/art/SandyDeLuca.Cfm

Mood:  mischievious

There is high art, low brow art, kitche, visionary and the list goes on and on.  There are illustrators and fine artists. There are literary authors, hacks and every under the sun in between. Sometimes people cross over from the high end to experiment with the low end. They dare to be criticzied--and often ignored--for their work.

It's all art. The trick is to keep doing it.

Speaking of digital--I now have two books out in digital format. I'm on the bandwagon with this new format. Just think--when you're traveling you won't have to lug around heavy books, just your Kindle, or a small laptop--even a Sony reader. Lots of benefits to digital books.

http://www.horror-mall.com/FROM-ASHES-by-Sandy-DeLuca-Digital-Edition-p-19445.html

 http://www.horror-mall.com/DESCENT-by-Sandy-DeLuca-Digital-eBook-p-18639.html

Ok, I swore I'd never embrace digital art. However, I've been experimenting more and more with some cool programs and have found new and exciting ways to blend my digital experiments with my traditional art. I don't believe the digital format can replace the excitement of a painting hanging on someone's wall, in a gallery or any alternative venue available for today's modern artist. Nonetheless, digital software can be an exciting tool to enchance and embellish traditional artwork; i.e. printing out the image and collaging it within a traditional painting or pasting it onto canvas and painting on and around it.

It's great to be spending more time at home and working on some writing and art. I've invested in some digital art software and have begun to combine my hand painted and drawn work with digital enhancements. I've done several fantasy pieces and want to move on to horror.

My novella is nearing completion as well. Today is a great day to work on it. The atmosphere is wonderful here. Rainy. Dark. Leaves are falling and the mood is delightfully dark.

I wish I had more time!!!!

Three days of painting, writing and shopping...Posting some cover art I've done over the years on my website shortly.

 Did several loose sketches for new fantasy art. Into final draft of my novella.

Mood:  energetic

Wrote most of the morning. Posted several pieces of miniature art on E-Bay and a classic copy of A MID SUMMER NIGHT'S TERROR.  It's difficult to believe that little anthology was published ten years ago. Things have really changed in the publishing business since then.

Picked up some new books at Borders: A BOOK OF PAGAN PRAYER, by Ceisiwr Smith, GODDESS AFOOT and GODDESS ALIVE by Michelle Skye. In addition, my Alibris orders are starting to arrive. I need more bookcases! My research books are beginning to rest in piles throughout my home.

Read Hal Zina Bennett's WRITING SPIRITUAL BOOKS. Lots of great resource material; publishers, online networking and spiritual friendly agents.

THEIR CHILDREN'S CRIES unheard moving along very nicely.  

RAIN IN NEW ENGLAND

It's a rainy Saturday here in New England and a good day to work on my novella THEIR CHILDREN'S CRIES UNHEARD. In addition, I am in the process of outlinging a nonfiction spiritually based book.

I recently read Lynn V. Andrew's book, WRITING SPIRIT. I highly recommend it both as a writer's tool and a great source of inspiration. The book has inspired my study of Duende and the Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca--http://www.duendedrama.com/duendees.htm

Andrews also awakened a new interest in the work of  Robinson Jeffers.

This dark and beautiful quote from TEAR LIFE TO PIECES is so true and relates to much of my own fiction and poetry:

"Eagle and Hawk with their great claws & hooded heads tear life to pieces

Vulture & Raven wait for death to soften it,

The poet cannot feed on this time of the world

Until he has torn it to pieces,

and himself also."