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Shirley MacKenzie can see into my head

Posted on February 8, 2020 by Seymour

Here is one of the illustrations Shirley Mackenzie drew for River of Stones, which will be launched in the next few days. When I looked at her first draft, a host of objections swarmed into my mind. Where were the … Continue reading →

Posted in The Astreya Trilogy, The Hippies Who Meant It, The Laughing Princess | Tagged Illustration, River of Stones, The Astreya Trilogy, The Hippies Who Meant It, The Laughing Princess

Dragons and a Princess with New Artwork

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Seymour

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 The Laughing Princess | Tagged Illustration, On Writing, Shirley MacKenzie, The Laughing Princess

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