Author Interview: Sheila McGraw; The Knife Thrower’s Wife
The Knife Thrower’s Wife follows a woman that, after failing to save her marriage after his infidelity, ends up the prime suspect in his mysterious murder. What was the inspiration for the setup to your story? While many mystery novels start with the discovery of a dead body, I deliberately opened the book [The Knife…
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A Giveaway and a 5-star Review
Book Giveaway on GoodReads As of today 1450 mystery buffs have entered to win one of 25 copies of The Knife Thrower’s Wife on GoodReads. Winners have been selected for this giveaway, keep checking back for the next one! And this Happened: Chick Lit Cafe gave The Knife Thrower’s Wife 5 stars and a fantastic…
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The Knife Thrower’s Wife Foreword/Clarion Reviews
The Knife Thrower’s Wife is an intriguing tale about love gone wrong. In Sheila McGraw’s energetic, polished mystery The Knife Thrower’s Wife, cracks begin to appear in a long marriage. Successful freelance illustrator Julia seems to live a charmed life in a beautiful home in the Houston suburbs. She loves her husband, Austin, though…
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A Love You Forever Sighting
It’s a good day when the Mayor of Kansas City reads your book! Kansas mayor, Michelle De La Isla, uses bedtime stories to help her city cope – CLICK HERE to watch. — Thanks for stopping by! Check out more on Love You Forever Please follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram The opinions expressed in…
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The Knife Thrower’s Wife A Novel Finds a Home Part 2
This domestic-suspense mystery novel set in the Houston Texas area, is the riveting story of one woman’s mid-life coming of age. The Knife Thrower’s Wife has been acquired by an Austin Texas publisher and is due to be released around the end of September 2020.
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The Knife Thrower’s Wife A Novel Finds a Home Part 1
THE KNIFE THROWER’S WIFE Excited to report that The Knife Thrower’s Wife is coming soon! This domestic-suspense mystery novel is a departure from my usual craft and kids’ books. Set in the Houston Texas area, The Knife Thrower’s Wife is the riveting story of one woman’s mid-life coming of age. The Knife Thrower’s Wife has…
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I Love You Too, I Love You Three The Cover Story
Choosing the cover design Things I like in a book cover: I love negative-space, also called white-space (which can be any color but in this case, it’s a shiny clean white). Negative space isn’t wasted space. The functional difference between a shovel and a pitchfork is the metal that’s missing. That missing metal has…
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I Love You Too, I Love You Three Slinging Paint
Adding color. A journey from. . . This. . . . . .to this! The story-boarding is done, necessary text changes have been made and all has been approved! Now comes the color. Mr. publisher says he doesn’t want I Love You too, I Love You Three confused with any previous books. Got the blues?…
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I Love You Too, I Love You Three The Style
Illustrating the Book… The Choices. This sweet book, I Love You Too, I Love You Three, (written by Wendy Tugwood, with my illustrations, and published by Firefly Books) turned out to be so well-paced, so well received, that it’s hard to believe there might be a challenge or two in the making of the art… but there were.…
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I Love You Too, I Love You Three Storyboarding
Illustrating the Book… Storyboarding. Once the direction and general style of the images for a book are settled, step one in the art-process of illustrating a kids’ book comes with the storyboard. Storyboarding solves the most basic issues in the appearance of the book, which are a whole bunch of things: style, format, continuity, composition,…
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