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Tag Archives: Shirley MacKenzie

Apt 613 and Barb Collishaw review The Hippies Who Meant It

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Seymour
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What does it mean that they “meant it”? I think it’s the idea of perseverance, despite hardships and social ostracism. Continue reading →

Posted in The Hippies Who Meant It | Tagged 60's, Back to the Land, Hippies, Protest, Shirley MacKenzie, The Hippies Who Meant It, Vietnam War | Leave a reply

Launching THE HIPPIES WHO MEANT IT

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Seymour
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My latest book, The Hippies Who Meant It, is now available on Amazon Kindle. It’s about American and Canadian young people in the 60’s who dropped out and went back to the land armed with pluck and naïveté.  It’s also a … Continue reading →

Posted in The Hippies Who Meant It | Tagged Historic Fiction, Historical Novel, Shirley MacKenzie | Leave a reply

Dragons and a Princess with New Artwork

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Seymour
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I asked Seymour Hamilton, author of The Laughing Princess, how it came about that he met Shirley MacKenzie, who did the lovely new cover and many other drawings for that book. This is how he explains it:

I met Shirley MacKenzie at a reading soiree at a now defunct indie bookseller which had our books on consignment. Shirley had written and illustrated a moving account of her search for her birth mother and father. The emotional impact of Shirley’s story was in her drawings, which are at the intersection between personal and universal. She does not tell her reader what to think or feel: she presents evocative images of loss, longing and fulfillment that haunt me still. Continue reading →

Posted in Illustration, The Laughing Princess | Tagged Illustration, On Writing, Shirley MacKenzie, The Laughing Princess | Leave a reply

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