I'm honoured to add to this website the following book by E. R. Cooper, a multi-talented author from California.

The Venice Apartment and Other Stories

The author says: "The three pages are from a story called 'Adagio', about a love-triangle that takes place in Paris and Rome. It involves a painter, a singer and his mistress, and is very loosely based on the turn-of-the-century love-triangle between Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel and Rodin's 'sometime wife', Rose Beuret...rather inspired by this true-life story, than based upon it, plot-wise. Another story, named 'Cacountala' (also reflective of the same fusion between that same artist's work and life), includes a symbolic image, in the form of a gesture, between lovers, that replicates Claudel's sculpture, or seeks to do so, at the end of the story."

Here's a sample page:

The book was published in 2006, and the author has given readings from, and lectures about, the production of it (specifically about the relationship between editors and writers, women's publishing and aesthetic elements of artistic inspiration) at the International Women's Writing Guild, in New York, at Scandinavia House (October 2006) and the San Francisco Writer's Conference (Feb. 2005). It has appeared at the London Book Festival, as well (April 2007), and was reviewed in the Wadham College, Oxford Gazette (2007), Daily Information (Oxford) and Women Writers Magazine.

E. R. Cooper is also an accomplished editor. Her website addresses are:

http://www.myspace.com/OxfordCopyeditingServices  &
http://www.theperfectcopyeditor.com

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