Location: Canada
Member Since:
June 23, 2011
Gayle Millbank
Biography
In recent years with my concerns about global warming I have been thinking about Earth's future. We need a clean source of energy and to expand to space colonies. Hence Zeta Star Mizar White and her life in 6012 evolved.I hope you enjoy it.
More down to Earth and the Italian Renaissance: I have studied figurative clay-sculpting for many years. So naturally when I visited Florence in 2000 I concentrated on Michelangelo's sculptures. In his home I viewed his first bas relief, The Battle of the Centaurs, and was so close to it I could see his fine chisel marks. David of course was incredible but Michelangelo's last pieta with Nicodemus was breath-taking. However, The Medici Tomb moved me to tears as I was overwhelmed with emotion in the midst of so many of his bigger-than- life sculptures.
On returning to Victoria I decided to write his diary. After thorough research into his life, the popes, and the Medici family; each year on his birthday I imagined what his life was like and who or what was influencing it and wrote in his journal. The Lost Journals of Michelangelo flowed easily and are here for you to read.
During my research I discovered Leonardo and Michelangelo were in Florence and creating battle scenes in the same room for three months. Florence 1505: Leonardo battles Michelangelo a stage play evolved.
More down to Earth and the Italian Renaissance: I have studied figurative clay-sculpting for many years. So naturally when I visited Florence in 2000 I concentrated on Michelangelo's sculptures. In his home I viewed his first bas relief, The Battle of the Centaurs, and was so close to it I could see his fine chisel marks. David of course was incredible but Michelangelo's last pieta with Nicodemus was breath-taking. However, The Medici Tomb moved me to tears as I was overwhelmed with emotion in the midst of so many of his bigger-than- life sculptures.
On returning to Victoria I decided to write his diary. After thorough research into his life, the popes, and the Medici family; each year on his birthday I imagined what his life was like and who or what was influencing it and wrote in his journal. The Lost Journals of Michelangelo flowed easily and are here for you to read.
During my research I discovered Leonardo and Michelangelo were in Florence and creating battle scenes in the same room for three months. Florence 1505: Leonardo battles Michelangelo a stage play evolved.
Where to find Gayle Millbank online
Twitter: @ZetaStar1
Where to buy in print
Books
The Lost Journals of Michelangelo: Volume II
by Gayle Millbank
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 17,360.
Language:
English.
Published: January 18, 2012
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Categories:
Fiction » Classics
This book continues Michelangelo's life from when he was thirty-three until his funeral. In these frustrating years he dealt with a succession of popes, the rise and fall of the Medicis, two tombs- one in Rome and one in Firenze, back-breaking frescos, and architectural challenges. Read this journal to see what he was thinking as he lived his super-human life.
The Lost Journals of Michelangelo: Volume I
by Gayle Millbank
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 17,770.
Language:
English.
Published: January 7, 2012
.
Categories:
Fiction » Classics
This journal is Michelangelo's record of his life: from an eleven year old wrenched out of his secure life with his foster parents in stone-cutter haven, to his arrival the year before in Florence, to his young adulthood of thirty-two years. It details the things that shaped him, his friends, his family and how he felt as he sculpted the Rome Pieta and David. Of course, no one really knows.
Florence 1505: Leonardo Battles Michelangelo
by Gayle Millbank
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 15,650.
Language:
English.
Published: January 7, 2012
.
Categories:
Screenplays » Drama
(5.00 from 1 review)
In renaissance Italy two mighty artists faced off in the Palazzo Vecchio each to paint a battle scene to glorify Firenze. Tensions were high as all eyes were on the two giants. Add to this Leonardo's adopted son, Salai, who was a rascal and thief and who had a secret relationship with Michelangelo, then the stage is set for high drama in this two act play.
The Adventures of Zeta Star: The Rescue
by Gayle Millbank
Price:
$1.99 USD.
Words: 86,040.
Language:
English.
Published: October 30, 2011
.
Categories:
Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction
Zeta Star is now fourteen years old and still determined to save all humans on Earth and in the colonies by defeating her evil Cousin BradLi.
Her journey takes her to beautiful remote Cortes Island to learn about fusion factories, to the Moon to save her friend in a dramatic rescue, and to Pluto for a surprise rescue which totally changes her life.
The Adventures of Zeta Star: The Inheritance
by Gayle Millbank
You set the price!
Words: 79,090.
Language:
English.
Published: October 15, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction
(5.00 from 1 review)
It's 6012: space travel, space battles make up the everyday life of 12 year old Zeta Star, named after the zeta star in the Big Dipper constellation. She is the key to the survival of all living things in the Solar System. Join Zeta as she grows older and wiser and stronger in her fast-paced world encompassing Ceres, the Moon, and Mars.
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