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D.M. Denton

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DM Denton's fourth novel, The Dove Upon Her Branch, A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti, was published in July 2023 and focuses on the 19th Century poet and youngest sister of the mercurial Pre-Raphaelite poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Her third novel, Without the Veil Between, Anne Brontë: A Fine and Subtle Spirit, is about the youngest Brontë sister. DM Denton's first two novels, A House Near Luccoli, and its sequel, To A Strange Somewhere Fled, focus on Baroque music and its makers and are set in 17th century Genoa and England respectively. She has also published three Kindle short stories and an illustrated flower journal.

Her next novel will focus on the early 20th Century Shropshire novelist, poet, and essayist Mary Webb, best known fo
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I am just beginning to write a novel about the late Victorian, early 20th century English (Shropshire) novelist and poet Mary Webb. It will be the third in a series of novels about lesser-known women writers, the first, "Without the Veil Between, Anne Brontë: A Fine and Subtle Spirit" (2017) and the second - just released - "The Dove Upon Her Branch, A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti" (July 2023), both published, as were my first two novels, by All Things That Matter Press. I am also slowly working on an illustrated poetry/prose book about cats.(less)
D.M. Denton Slow down. Take the time to experiment, develop, and be open to the unexpected. Find your own way and savor the journey—even, especially, its detours.…moreSlow down. Take the time to experiment, develop, and be open to the unexpected. Find your own way and savor the journey—even, especially, its detours. Don’t jeopardize the quality of your work by being in a hurry to see your efforts in print. What you write is your child—you want to see it grow up to be the best it can be, but that means it has to go through the stages to maturity. Engage the senses as much if not more than the intellect. I love this quote by Ray Bradbury: “Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.” Write what and because you have to write. Allow for the uniqueness of your voice and avoid the temptation of trends and popular appeal that risk you trying to be a writer other than the one you are meant to be. Or as Allen Ginsberg wrote, “To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.”(less)
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A House Near Luccoli

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A Friendship with Flowers

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My latest commissioned pet portrait of Poppy, a Groodle (cross between a Poodle and a Golden Retriever) traveled all the way to Australia, a recent birthday present for the daughter of one of my Facebook friends, Rosanna Taylor.

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Without the Veil Between, Anne Brontë by D.M. Denton
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D.M. Denton added a status update: "The Dove Upon Her Branch, A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti" is now available as an Audio Book! The excellent and experienced narrator is Virgina Ferguson. My publisher and I are thrilled with the result and feel so fortunate to have attracted her talent to the audio version. I listened to it in its entirety, so engaged with Virginia's reading I often forgot I was the author.... https://tinyurl.com/msb95ja4
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“There are three points of view from which a writer can be considered: he may be considered as a storyteller, as a teacher, and as an enchanter. A major writer combines these three — storyteller, teacher, enchanter — but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer…The three facets of the great writer — magic, story, lesson — are prone to blend in one impression of unified and unique radiance, since the magic of art may be present in the very bones of the story, in the very marrow of thought…Then with a pleasure which is both sensual and intellectual we shall watch the artist build his castle of cards and watch the castle of cards become a castle of beautiful steel and glass.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov”
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“One day in the country was worth a month in town and better than Christmas, her birthday, or even Papa saying she was like the moon risen at the full.”
D.M. Denton, The Dove Upon Her Branch: A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti

“How many children could say their home hosted the humblest and highest at the same time, on any given evening invaded by expatriates their father never hesitated to invite in? Through the back door he welcomed a bookseller, organ grinder, biscuit maker, vagrant macaroni man, and one called Galli who thought he was Christ. Through the front, disgraced Italian counts and generals made as officious entrances as a small house on Charlotte Street afforded.”
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“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.”
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“There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick.”
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“They don't have to know the real you for you to keep being that amazing you! Don't let someone's negative spirit disrupt or corrupt yours. Be you for...you. God is the one that you want to see who you really are.”
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