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SELF PORTRAIT PAGES:

- Advance Praise for Lily's Ghost:

"Few novels present Vietnam so thoroughly and completely with its aftershocks. A story of great courage and tremendous power."
- Robert Stone author of Dog Soldiers

"Skillfully weaving into her novel a story of romantic love and a suspenseful account of a mother’s effort to remain united with her child, Cheryl Drake makes a compelling memorable debut."
- Frederick Busch

A NEW BOOK: SELF PORTRAIT

Summer 2006 ...Lily's Ghost went on sale...Research began for Self Portrait

Spring 2013 Bresnick Weil Literary Agency represents SELF PORTRAIT.

May 2013 ..."SELF PORTRAIT is completed !!!"

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Not only does SELF PORTRAIT present the bad boys of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, particularly Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but more importantly, it follows the life of Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti, artist in her own right, as well as wife, muse and model. Her story is brought to life by Fiona MacPherson, the actor who plays her in a film with the same title. MacPherson and her co-star, Irish actor, Aedan Byrne ( who plays Rossetti) create not only a haunting and compelling film, but are propelled into a present-day parallel existence wrought with sexual longing, terror and near tragedy.

 
The Pre-Raphaelite pages here contain images that were the inspiration for this book.