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This passionate dialogue between two kindred spirits ranges across the fashion and literary art world, This rich delving into the past will be nostalgic for those who lived through those years and inspirational and fascinating for those who didn’t! The American Book review below will also be in the Brooklin Rail and the London Book review

Bewitched and Be Ditched

Bewitched and Be Ditched is a darkly humorous and inventive exploration of a two-decade love story between Arthur, a brilliant but aging poet/singer, and Katherine, a successful Canadian designer who has defied the odds to make her mark in Paris. Through time-jumping journal entries and candid emails, the novel reveals the often-bittersweet vulnerability inherent in their partnership and how their experiences connect them.

When Patasola, a cunning witch from the South American wastelands, seduces her way into the Madrid art scene by exploiting vulnerable sugar daddies, Arthur—Katherine’s beloved husband—becomes her latest prey. Torn between his dual nature—the passive Dr. Jekyll and the lustful, reckless Billy Goat Mr. Hyde—Arthur convinces himself that this young witch is not only madly in love with him but is his saviour.

Can Katherine save Arthur from this emotional vampire before it’s too late?

“This novel is a cry of sorrow and betrayal by a woman’s lifetime companion, deeply moving and splendidly written with guts and abandon. Readers will be caught up in its passionate rage– at the same time, the deeply hurt heroine –or victim?–of this novel is able to draw a painful circle of understanding about her foolish lover’s stumble in the darkness of sorcery. Don’t miss this read which delves deep into conflicting emotions.”

Alain A. Misson (Reviewed on Amazon)

“This book is recommended for anyone who fell in love for keeps with an artist, poet, writer, dancer who was unable to rise to the occasion, recognize and appreciate the gift they had, and in return, leave to chase a dream for what they imagined would be a better life. I think of Dora Maar & Pablo Picasso, Lee Krasner & Jackson Pollock, Camille Claudel & Aguste Rodin, Hadley Richardson & Ernest Hemingway – the list is long in the creative community. A female is devoted to the man, the creative genius, to his ideas, his aura, and to their intimately shared life where she very often takes care of all kinds of details and distractions so he is free to just focus on his work. This would be an overwhelmingly sad story were it not for the wit, charm and sparkling intelligence of the fictional heroine, her astute observations and often comical insights into this complex relationship. The story has a cinematic feel as it takes place between Paris and Venice, with jaunts to exotic places. I hope there will be another book, as the heroine finds a new and shining direction to bright discoveries.”

Willie Marlowe – www.williemarlowe.com

Chasing the Stars and Hoping to Shag the Moon

If this is a book about books—it is far from bookish! One first remarks the speed, the staccato give and take of this email dialogue between Karen Moller and her lifelong friend Cyclops about books and friends, characters, hundreds it seems, from fiction and from real life. This book ranges over social and feminist protests and literary history with fascinating stories within stories of friends with irrepressible zest and the freshest of prose as she partied with the Beatles and international artists from the contemporary art world. Practical and clear-eyed, with remarkable self-awareness and minimal encroachment of the ego, she is the Mrs. Pepys of this stroll through the cultural landscape from San Francisco and Paris.

Karen, growing up in the mountains of Canada, wanted to be an artist, but her father thought women didn’t need an education to scrub floors, so she paid her way through her Calgary Art College by waitressing. Then off to Paris where she studied with André Lhote, while helping the eccentric and visionary Robert Filliou with the performance of his Collage of the Immortal Death of the World, and querying William Burroughs at the Beat Hotel. Her next stop was Spain, where working in the decorative arts encouraged her to create a Hippie boutique in London. Soon a fashion hotspot, her garments were bought in Kings Road and Carnaby Street and were modeled by Twiggy. With the opening of her textile designer studio, her designs sold to every major fashion house from Paris and London to New York and Tokyo. Her photo was splashed across the cover of Nova Magazine as the “The New Woman”. Later her fashion forecasting company in Paris, was named by Time Magazine as one of the best in the world!

Her friend of sixty years, Cyclops, an orphan of Dickensian atmospherics from Portsmouth, decided after reading Colin Wilson’s The Outsider to take off for Bohemian Paris where he was rebaptized Cyclops because of his eccentric appearance, “in leather coat from the Flea market, Cuban heeled boots, completed with beard and black eye patch”. The Beat Hotel where he lived, he calls “My University” because his education took a leap when he met the underground figures: William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Sinclair Beilies, and the photographer, Harold Chapman, and artist Hundertwasser. His brilliant poet friend Piero Heliczer not only discovered the Velvet Underground but created multimedia shows called Ritual Happenings, which Andy Warhol largely appropriated. On his return to London, he became a highly successful rare book dealer working from a stall in the King’s Road Antiquarius Market.

No, do not look in these pages for a leisurely plod through the cultural explosion of the Sixties and its repercussions throughout the next half century. The point is that – here is a true dialogue of two graphically brilliant souls, not just a compilation of congenial exchanges but a true confrontation between them and how those years gave them an opportunity to form their lives. What they do have in common with Keats and Burns, like them from modest origins, is a powerful demotic and literary urge, with a narrative that runs from Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol’s factory to the many now famous artists and activist of the 1960s where the boundaries between pop music and feminist politics, personal anecdotes and the literary world are often blurred. This rich delving into the past half century will be nostalgic and enlivening for those who lived through those years and inspirational and fascinating for those who didn’t! American Book Review. University of Houston Victoria

Technicolor Dreamin': In Her Own Fashion

Karen Moller’s book Technicolor Dreamin In her own fashion gives us a behind the scenes, look into the hottest moments of the 60s/70s, and her friendships with the little known but soon to be famous artists, Pop musician and avant-garde of New York, Paris, and London. It is full of personal anecdotes of the fascinating and colorful peep into the pop and fashion world during the beat/hippie revolution and the repercussions that followed those years. After art college in Canada, Karen took off to meet the Beatniks in San Francisco with Kerouac’s On the Road under her arm. Next was New York and Paris where she found her family in the community of artists. The memoir recounts in the freshest of prose her stories, within stories which range across the social and literary history of the political, feminist, and sexual protests of the 1960s including her days on the barricades in Paris. As the key player in Swinging London’s fashion industry, Karen became globally know in the 1970/90s for her textile designs. In 1986, she opened her Paris styling office Trend Union, a fashion forecasting service predicting colors, designs and fabrics trends for many élite fashion houses. Time Magazine named her styling office as one of the best in the world. Her memoir Technicolor Dreamin’ In her own fashion was published in Spain in 2015 re- published in England in 2018.

Technicolor Dreamin’ In her own fashion will not only be a nostalgic trip for those who lived those years, it is a Grand Tour of the arts, music, and cultural activities of the Sixties on how these events and get togethers influenced the creativity energy of those days.

Technicolor Dreamin': In Her Own Fashion

One first remarks the speed, the staccato give and take of this odd dialogue about books and friends— characters, hundreds it seems, from fiction and from real life, equally intimate (“I learned about life from books”, says Karen), anecdotes of the famous and the obscure (“Known Knowns and Unknown Knowns” as Cyclops calls them, comfortable among the latter), rub elbows with them. Karen Moller, with her famous designer past and many friends from the contemporary French art world, such as the eccentric and visionary Filliou and that ultimate avant-gardiste the flying Yves Klein to the British pop world of the Beatles and the larger-than-cartoon, declamatory American poets, Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, ranges over social and feminist and literary history and fascinating stories within stories of friends and great novels with irrepressible zest and the freshest of prose; practical, clear-eyed, with remarkable self-awareness and minimal encroachment of the ego, she is the Mrs. Pepys of this stroll through the cultural landscape. While Cyclops, often lost in obscure personal histories, indistinguishably autobiographical and fictitious, explores the murky back-streets of provincial English towns in a growling jive that owes as much to Dickens and Joyce as to the Goon Show in search of a mythical mother who may have been the widow of the legendary WWII hero Captain Crabbe

Karen Moller grew up in a small town in the mountains of western Canada. She took off at age nineteen, hitchhiking with Jack Kerouac’s On the Road under her arm, after graduating from art school in Calgary and went on to dazzling success in the renaissance of poetry, pop music, fashion and the arts in swinging London. The freshness of voice and delighted wonder that permeate that illuminating, often hilarious, personal anecdotes is both irresistible and touching.

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