CANDLELIT CHRONICLES: HISTORIC HAUNTS

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Fantasy art partriarch Frank Frazetta has died at age 82 of a stroke. Mr. Frazetta's illustrations defined for more than one generation the “sword-and-sorcery” subgenre of fantasy, yet he himself stated he did not take his art from the stories. For readers though, the novels and the art were coherent and resonant. Later he expanded into illustration for album covers and Hollywood.





Mr. Frazetta's wife, Ellie, passed just last year. A bizarre incident occurred with one of his sons, who hired a backhoe to raze a wall of the castle-type building surrounding Mr. Frazetta's stored art collection on his estate in Pennsylvania.





http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-me-frank-frazetta-20100511,0,...





I am very happy with the current progress on the newest novels,

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. The writing is lush and sensory, exploring all the senses while delineating themes that have been held to my heart for a lifetime. This novel launches from the launching pad of the April 2010 Stage Play,

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but where I found writing it as a Play constricting in that I could not expand description (or so I thought) and distracting in needing to fit it to a format for staging, here I can expand gloriously, and the growth of this newest novel is just as fecund as the South Georgia swamp of its current setting. Just as the first two chapters of

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seemed dull, stagnant, and mossy as I wrote them May 2-5, so now this one, begun May 6, is blossoming, fertile, and altogether an excitement to write.