Nov 27, 2017
New Release for November is 31 Zentangles and Mandalas.
Price: $12.50 USD
Pages: 76
Designs: 31
Order Online: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Zentangles and Mandalas are illustrations and designs that are perfect for coloring. Designed to be a relaxing way to spend some quality time and just let the stresses of the day fade. We all remember how much fun it was as children when we colored. Now 31 Zentangles and Mandalas seeks to take you back to those carefree days as an adult with these designs in this coloring book for grown-ups.
Take out your pencils, crayons, markers and find a quiet spot to color in 31 Zentangles and Mandalas designs.
Some of the designs:
Nov 25, 2017
I’ve been working on the second edition of In The Blood of the Greeks The Illustrated Companion after only having the book available in print. It will now be available in print and ebook.
The print edition has the added bonus of having illustrations by Lucia Nobrega being able to used as a coloring book. The ebook readers will have a chance to download the coloring illustrations as a pdf (separate to the book) so they can print out.
The first edition of this book and the novel “In The Blood of the Greeks” is in the jewish Museum of Greece in Athens.
Both the print and ebook will be available to buy from the AUSXIP Publishing store in addition to Amazon & other book retailers.
This is the chapters in the book:
- Acknowledgements
- Second Edition Introduction By Mary
- History Behind The Name: In The Blood Of The Greeks
- History Of The Location Of The Book: Larissa
- The Allies In Greece – 1940 To 1941
- The Germans Invade Greece
- The Allies Retreat From Larissa – 1941
- War Time Photography From Australian War Memorial
- War Time Photography From The Alexander Turnball Library, Wellington, New Zealand
- The Triple Occupation Of Greece By The Axis Powers 1941-1944
- The Greek Resistance Rises – 1941
- The Trainbusters Of Olympus And Destruction Of The Gorgopotamos Rail Bridge, 1942
- Character Profiles From In The Blood Of The Greeks
- Farsala (Phasalos) – Zoe’s Birthplace And Family Farm
- About Zoe Lambros
- Mini-Biography Of Zoe Lambros
- About Eva Theresa Muller
- Mini-Biography Of Eva Muller
- Eva’s Tortured Past – Gay Aversion Therapy
- Zoe’s Resistance Activities
- German, Italian And Bulgarian Atrocities / War Crimes 1941 – 1944
- From “In The Blood Of The Greeks” The Death Of Helena Lambros
- Eva And Zoe Meet For The First Time
- Coloring Illustrations
- How To Use The Coloring Section For The Printed Book
- How To Use The Coloring Section For The Ebook Version
- Athena’s Bluff And Zoe’s Cabin
- The Jews Of Greece
- The Holocaust In Greece 1941-1945
- A Quick History Of The Jews In Greece
- The Greek Resistance And The Jews 1941-1945
- Thessaly: Partisan Cradle
- The Heroic Women Of Greece – 1940
- Women Of The Resistance – A Great Army
- Women Of The Resistance – Sara Yeshua
- Women Of The Resistance – Titika Panagiotidou
- Women Of The Resistance – 54th Batallion Of Elas
- Displaced (Refugees) People In The Middle East 1944 – 1947
- Australia – A Place Of Refuge For Displaced Persons 1947 – 1953
- Eva And Zoe In Australia – The Journey Continues
- About The Intertwined Souls Series
- Ebook Version – Download Print Quality Pdf For Illustrations
- Mary’s Book Club Newsletter
Apr 20, 2017
I’m stoked to announce that my newest coloring book Coloring To Relax Mandalas & Geometric Patterns Volume 2 is now available! It’s got 30 illustrations of various designs.
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Here are some designs!
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WHY SHOULD WE COLOR?
How does coloring help? Isn’t that just for children? Psychologist Gloria Martinez Ayala recently discussed why it’s so important for adults as well as children. She was interviewed by the Huffington Post where she said: “The relaxation that it provides lowers the activity of the amygdala, a basic part of our brain involved in controlling emotion that is affected by stress.”
So what does that mean? It means by immersing ourselves in one activity that our energies are totally focused, our brains are not focused on the things that stress us out. This is quite true. It does work.
We all lead very busy lives with work commitments, family and health issues. There is so much going on. We neglect the one thing we should not and that is ourselves. We need to MAKE time for ourselves. In between writing fiction, I color my own designs or buy coloring books geared towards adults although the children’s coloring books take me back a few years. It gives me pleasure and hours of fun!
When we were children (and for some of us, that may be some time ago), we found enjoyment in creating art by coloring. We spent many hours hunched over our coloring books with crayons (or pencils and/or markers). We found pleasure in the simple act of coloring in.
What has happened since then? We grew up. We abandoned the simple pleasure of immersing ourselves in our coloring efforts. Life has knocked us around. Okay time to get back to what makes us happy and to forget our troubles, even for a short while.
Break out your favorite coloring pencils/crayons / paints – however you want to do it, do it!
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Jun 7, 2016
I’m very pleased to announce that The Illustrated Companion is now available in Graphic Novel Format on the Kindle.
Click here to buy the kindle version – with the kindle version you can’t print out from it so you can color Lucia’s gorgeous illustrations but there is a link at the back of the book for the PDF file (for free). You can download that and print the coloring images.
Click here to buy the Print Version
In The Blood of the Greeks The Illustrated Companion is about the events written in the award-winning novel “In The Blood Of The Greeks”.
In Nazi-occupied Greece, Eva and Zoe — one a German officer’s daughter, the other a young Greek woman filled with fury — should be enemies but they come together in an unlikely union to save the lives of Jews targeted by the Nazis.
Real life heroes of the Greek Resistance, life in war-torn Greece and the Jewish fight for survival are portrayed through illustrations, images and real accounts. Featuring War time photography from the Australian War Memorial, the New Zealand War Memorial (The Alexander Turnball Library) and The Jewish Museum of Greece. Brazilian artist Lucia Nobrega’s illustrations of the characters of Eva Muller and Zoe Lambros and other characters bring the novel to life. Part coloring book, part history book. Discover the history behind the novel “In The Blood of the Greeks” and the Greek Resistance against the Germans and the fight to save Jewish lives.
Apr 2, 2016
I’m very pleased to announce that Amazons & Warriors 2 Adult Coloring Book has been released!
Available now on Amazon and other retailers! 100% of the royalties from this book will be donated to Starship Foundation for 2016!
Mar 20, 2016
I’m very pleased to announce that my newest non-fiction book “In The Blood of the Greeks: The Illustrated Companion” is now available! 104 Pages of illustrations, images, first hand accounts of events portrayed in the book and much more!
Purchase from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0994476523
Purchase from Createspace: https://www.createspace.com/6120291
The book will also be available in other bookstores in the coming week. A ebook version of the book will also be available shortly although you won’t be able to use the coloring book section.
This book combined my love for history, research and my characters – it was a joy to work on and I had the unbelievable help of Lucia Nobrega who did her amazing Eva and Zoe Illustrations plus the Australian War Memorial and the New Zealand War Memorial via the The Alexander Turnball Library in Wellington, NZ. The Jewish Museum of Greece just went out of their way to help with giving me access to their material and photo archive. A researcher’s dream come true.
It’s 1942 in German Occupied Greece during World War II, and two women, one Greek, the other German must work together to help Jews escape. They have to put aside their mutual antipathy to accomplish their clandestine operation. They know that one wrong move will put an end to their lives.
In The Blood of the Greeks The Illustrated Companion is about the events written in the award-winning novel “In The Blood Of The Greeks”. Real life heroes of the Resistance, life in war-torn Greece and the Jewish fight for survival are portrayed through illustrations, images and real accounts. Part coloring book, part history book featuring Brazilian artist Lucia Nobrega’s illustrations of Eva Muller and Zoe Lambros and other characters from the novel.
New Release for November is 31 Zentangles and Mandalas.
