May Rose Well

 Stolen Lives  Series 1) Stolen Lives , 2) Captured Minds , 3) Hidden Truth My series is available in multiple formats on Amazon including eBook, paperback, and hardcover. The prices are changed and updated frequently by Amazon, I do not have control over the price once they are published. For the synopsis of these books, please go to my Stolen Lives series page or click on the images for the link to purchase online. I published my latest book in the series is  Hidden Truth  in October, 2023. First, I would like to discuss the first thing the readers see, the cover art. I designed my own cover art for Captured Minds and Hidden Truth . For Captured Minds , I drew by hand with coloured pencils on paper, then uploaded an image of it before editing that artwork on the computer. For Hidden Truth, I did a few drafts on paper before going straight into drawing it digitally. It gives a smoother finish for the night sky effect versus the desert landscape of book two. As the...

Patches of Sunlight Poetry Collection Structure and Sequence:   Patches of Sunlight  is my second poetry collection, after Spoken Waves .  For this second collection, I often used indentations and structured the sentences to lend a shape to the poems .  To enhance the reader's experience, I also added occasional images that relate to the content of the poems .   Patches of Sunlight  is separated into three sections, "Shadow", "Reflection" and "Light" . As the cover art alludes to, nature plays a large role in the collection . Aspects of the four elements: fire, water, earth, and air all feature within the collection . Other themes within the collection include but are not limited to: aspects of film and photography, colour, and movement .   The reader may choose to read the book by skipping around to various poems as they choose, but if you do read the book in order, the difference from the beginning until the end should become apparent. The change is...