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Anamnesis Photos

Remembering the Romance of Art – Mixing the Beautiful with the Profound Anamnesis: A Journey to Your Souls’ Memory Wednesday 17 August 2011 On a night with exceptionally bad traffic, following a week of motion-sickness inducing swings of the market, … Continue

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Hooked On Books Review

Review by Christa, Hooked on Books, 15 August 2011 Relations that Suck and La Femme Fatale are two stories about the same girl – a vampire named Eva. La Femme Fatale tells her story, taking us back to the time … Continue

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Creating a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) religion

This post was written originally for: Books in the Spotlight, 5 August 2011 First I’ll start with my very, brief definition of religion. I see religions as shared belief systems that provide guidance for living and tools to keep one’s … Continue

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Review from Reader Views

“La Femme Fatale” tells the story of Eva Prim who came into this world in the fourteenth century in Cairo. When the Black Death threatens to take her life, her parents turn to an old gypsy woman to save her. … Continue

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Reading on Edin Road Radio

Marilyn doing a reading of La Femme Fatale for the host of Edin Road Radio. Listen to internet radio with EdinRoad on Blog Talk Radio

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Anamnesis – A Journey to Your Soul’s Memory

Remembering the Romance of Art – Mixing the Beautiful with the Profound Genre-busting San Francisco artist Marilyn Yu has a knack for creating magical experiences. To celebrate the launch of her latest book, La Femme Fatale, Marilyn is creating a … Continue

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More Process: La Femme Fatale Cards

See how five cards are made. Starting from images that the drawings are based on to the finished colored illustrations. Card 1.5 – Anger Here’s a photo of the model PQ for Eva. The drawing of Eva. The reference image … Continue

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La Femme Fatale Review on Examiner.com

The first review of La Femme Fatale is here, by vampire literature expert Bertena Varney. La Femme Fatale by Marilyn Yu is simply another example of the author’s myriad of talent. In her first book, Relations that Suck: The Story … Continue

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Author Shawna Yang Ryan likes La Femme Fatale

“With her astounding new work, Marilyn Yu reminds us why, for so much of history, images and words were considered inextricable. Yu pushes the boundaries of narrative with her story of Eva Prim, a vampire and the “Femme Fatale” of … Continue

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Process: La Femme Fatale Cards

See some of the process of creating the cards. Once the outline of the book and the content of each card is decided the illustration planning begins. 1. I start off with some rough thumbnail sketches of the cards (images … Continue

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