DELIA QUIGLEY
-BOOKS AS ART~ART TO INSPIRE-
Category: creative process
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You’ve probably read a similar headline when Googling what to do after publishing your book. All the research, frustrations, sleepless nights, draft after draft, stops and starts finally paid off; it’s done, out in the world, but why isn’t everyone rushing to buy a copy? Suppose you have a large publishing company behind your efforts.…
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It was the late ’70s. I had heard about my brother’s new girlfriend from a few sources. I remember thinking that she must be pretty outrageous to take on the eccentricity of my big brother, and I was right. We met at the gala party for the Krewe of the Knights of Sant’ Yago, the…
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“Finding something you love to do is a real gift. When the world seems topsy-turvy, I can escape to my studio, and for the time I’m working, find real peace and happiness.” ~Joanne Jaffe If you are lucky, there are a handful of people who come into your life and change your understanding of what…
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In which I continue to interview myself. What was your first camera? That’s a bit like asking the name of my first boyfriend; because the day my mom gifted me her old Zeiss Ikon Contessa, I fell in love. It was as if she handed me a ticket to see the world in a creative…
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Part 5 Shall we narrow down self-publishing advice to a bullet list of does and don’ts? I find bullet lists to feel so unfinished, and yet they can provide just enough information to get you over the rough parts. By that, I mean STUCK. Your feet mired in quicksand, and all your best intentions are…
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Part 4 You got your feet wet publishing with BookBaby and CreateSpace. So why change horses in mid-stream? First of all, I love that expression. I use it often to temper my impulsive nature when new technology tempts me with updates. Things can get lost; time wasted learning new programs, you know what I mean.…
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Part 3 Let’s talk about designing your book covers. Sure. Book covers are a scary topic for self-publishing authors because it is HIGHLY recommended that you hire a professional to do your cover. For the first Body Rejuvenation Cleanse (BRCleanse) cover, I turned to a graphic artist Meghan Lyding. I had just seen a photo…
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Part II So what happened after you wrote the Complete Idiot’s Guide To Detoxing Your Body? Soon after I finished, I was hired to write a book on SuperFoods. This allowed me to expand on foods not often mentioned in health and cookbooks. Foods such as sea vegetables, pumpkin seeds, micro algae’s, wild mushrooms, well…
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People tell me they want to write a book. I tell them to put their rear end in a chair and write. That’s the only way to write a book.
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For this months interview on the Creative Process, I turn to one of my dearest and oldest friends, Pat Fenda. Patty and I go back to a time when we were young, gorgeous women devoted to creating art for the stage through dance, mime, singing, design, and acting. We could do it all with such…
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I came out here to the farm in May of 1980, and I had just turned forty. Were you alone? Did you have a friend, a big group of people to start? In the process with the proposal that we presented eight months earlier, it was approved, and then we came out, there was another…
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Art is the capacity every human being has to make something beautiful and to make it well. ~Miriam MacGillis
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Part I In 1992 I began working with the environmental activist and founder of Food & Water, Inc., Dr. Wally Burnstein. One day he suggested that I invite Miriam MacGillis to speak to my Macrobiotic group, at the time in Sarasota, Florida. Miriam was the Dominican sister Wally often spoke of, whose learning center, Genesis…
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Linda Welles is a funny, multi-talented woman with a long list of friends, a happy marriage, and beautiful home perched along a series of waterfalls. I knew her reputation as a killer cook, and for the artful renovation of a historic colonial house, that can be considered a paradise on earth. We spent an afternoon…
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“Every person I meet is in some way my superior, and in that way, I can learn from them.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
DELIA QUIGLEY 