Art Inspires Words – Out Today!

Out Today!! 
I loved writing the story for this amazing anthology collection.
Don’t miss out and please let me know what you think.

Each author was given a famous painting to use for inspiration.

Art Inspires Words
Books One & Two
Crazy Ink multi genre anthologies to celebrate the arts

What happens when a painting meets the blank page?

Book One: http://mybook.to/ArtInspiresbk1
Book Two: http://mybook.to/ArtInspiresbk2

Blurb/Preface:
Famous French impressionist Edgar Degas said, “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” With that sentiment in mind, Crazy Ink accepted submissions from numerous authors who choose from two dozen paintings in the public domain. From the painting each one picked, the writer was to develop a short story for this collection. They could use the painting as inspiration for their story in any fashion they wished. Authors

could take a scene set in medieval times and create a story set in the twenty-first century; writers could have the painting stolen or destroyed and write a mystery; or they could simply reflect on the colors, shapes, or mood of the painting to decide which direction their stories would take.

Writers take inspiration from their experiences and those of others. They also harvest the colors, tastes, smells, tactile stimulus, and sounds around them, and the world in which they reside or wish they could to write their tales. Henry David Thoreau wrote, “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”

For this two-book anthology, Art Inspires Words, we literally gave the writers a painted canvas to spark their creativity. The only limitation set on each author was that the famous painting he/she selected must be the muse for the story. That’s how the stories you are about to read were created. Art inspired more art, this time in the form of words. Relax in your most comfortable space and enjoy.