This week I am pleased to welcome author,
Michelle Moran
WHAT'S ON YOUR DESK WEDNESDAYS
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| 200 roses as they rise in tiers up the mountainside |
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| Michelle's favourite rose bush |
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| Michelle's avocados! |
I
have to say, not a whole lot!!! I'm a bit of a neat-freak, so all of my
files, papers and books are stored away in bookcases, and my desk
itself is very clean. I write in an
office on my first floor, looking out of my window onto a garden of over
two
hundred roses and eight fruit trees (none of which I can actually take
credit for. The
woman who sold the house to us had retired and spent her life
gardening). I
have a variety of images in my office. One is a black and white
photograph of
the Wright Brothers taking flight, the other is a beautiful Didier
Lourenco
whose paintings evoke life on the Mediterranean better than any other
artist I
know. But there has always been a space to the right of my desk that has
gone
unfilled since we bought our house, and back when Crown commissioned a
painting
for the cover of Nefertiti: A Novel,
I had the brilliant idea of purchasing it. After all, what better image could
fill my empty wall than one that represented my first success?
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So immediately, I
contacted the representative for the artist Doug Fryer, and the more I thought
about it, the more I wanted the painting. I told myself that I would purchase
the original at whatever-the-cost,
imagining that whatever-the-cost
would probably mean around $500. Or maybe $600. When Doug’s agent emailed back,
however, I discovered that for the ten by fifteen inch oil painting, I would
need to fork over several thousand dollars (the agent also mentioned that this
was a bargain, and that the artist’s other paintings go for thirty thousand).
After some serious reflection I decided that there will only ever be one debut
novel. So now I sit beneath the gaze of Egypt’s most fascinating queen, and
it’s worth every dollar!
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Hardcover of Madame Tussaud and a pair of Marie Antoinette cupcake earrings from Michelle Moran!
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February 2011
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It is a beautiful garden, Blodeuedd, I do agree! Those roses are gorgeous. What a view Michelle Moran has! Thanks for your comment! @blodeuedd83 ;)
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