Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a Greek visual poet and I have been illustrating my poems since forever. The only difference is that since 1997, while living in Manhattan and working with Stillpoint Press, I switched from oil painted illustrations to graphic designs. This was just as well as all my work was saved on google drive when a huge house fire burnt all my possessions. I live outside Athens by the sea with my family and publish my graphic poems on Amazon and “try” to promote them. I am also a dancer so I often dance while listening to music and writing my poem. I have found it very difficult to find a category or niche for my work and only recently has graphic poetry begun to appear a lot next to graphic novel as a blooming category. I believe this sort of illustrated poem makes poetry far more appealing and approachable by a wider and younger audience so I would say it is a pioneering form of multi-media poetry.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
THE FLYING SERIES
The Flying series, consists of 8 books, each one long poem with designs, all starting from one main theme, which creates its own harmonic ripples as it unravels. The initial theme, melodic and rhythmic, verse and visual, contains the sprouting buds of the entire work. Hence, the opening pages of each poem set forth a hypnotising, escalating momentum. The way in which the poetess’ message expands in each book is similar to a harmonious musical synthesis with vibrant hues. The poem and graphics are amplified in an intensifying pattern and each crescendo culminates in an “inner flight”. Her poetic and illustrative patterns have many personal and universal values, which create the basic source of vibrations from which more vibrations are set in motion, like the butterfly effect in the theory of chaos. Graphic poetry, innovative, inspirational, like you have never seen before in a dynamic, leading edge, visionary series: This is the poetry of the future, making it accessible and appealing to a wide audience of all spectrums.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Well, I write my long poem over a one year period, usually while dancing and listening to music. Is that wierd?
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Nikos Kazandzakis and everything he’s written, Heraclitus and other Ancient Greek philosophers, certain songs on youtube, and certain Korean dramas believe it or not.(not a book, though)
What are you working on now?
I’m continuing to work on Flying 9 to add to The Flying series.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
To be honest I don’t really know yet but as I’m paying for 5 book campaigns on Amazon I can’t afford to pay for any other sort of promotion. (I only just started)
Do you have any advice for new authors?
To write upon inspiration and not upon demand, even if the book market is clamouring for it.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Probably from Esther Hicks in Abraham to ignore the present reality and perceive and create the life that I want to live. (Gaining control of my own vibration is another matter in practice)
What are you reading now?
Kazandzakis and the Theatre
What’s next for you as a writer?
Flying 10? Who knows what inspiration will bring. It isn’t planned.
What is your favorite book of all time?
Jane Eyre and “The Rock Garden” and “Report to El Greco” by N.Kazandzakis (Can’t choose)
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