DELIA QUIGLEY
-BOOKS AS ART~ART TO INSPIRE-
Category: Interview
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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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Did you manage to find any interesting B&W negatives? Actually, I did find a few. This one photoshoot, in particular, stands out in my mind, and I’ve always wanted to scan the negatives digitally and see what it looks like today. What you see here is taken from the proof sheet. I remember it all…
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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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Part I I once hosted a radio show, Food For Thought, which ran from 1997 to 2006 in northwest New Jersey. It was fun, and I was good at coaxing a story from my guests. Since most authors wanted media attention, I would contact whomever I wanted to talk with and have them send me…
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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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