Playground of Colors: A Digital Plea to Protect the Earth by Andrei Marin – Digital Photography – Coming soon at Literary Revelations
Art born from what the earth left behind.
I am thrilled to announce that Literary Revelations will soon publish Playground of Colors: A Photographic Plea to Protect the Earth by Romanian digital photographer Andrei Marin.
In this striking album, Andrei transforms discarded materials into breathtaking visual artโturning waste into wonder, and issuing a powerful plea to cherish and protect our planet. Elegant, intentional, and deeply moving, this volume is an invitation to view conservation through an entirely new lens.
It is a timeless masterpiece for art lovers, environmental advocates, and conscious collectors alike. Share the message of preservation this Christmas season!
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Trim A4 perfect for coffee tables and gifts
eBook, paperback, and hardcover available
Number of Pages 183
Excerpt from Crepe in the Rain
Andrei Marin – Playground of Colors.
Playground of Colors: A digital plea to protect the earth By Andrei Marin
Gabriela Marie Milton 4X #1 Amazonbestseller Author an Founder Of Literary Revelations
The 9th Basho-an International English Haiku Competition
Via our Artist in Residence, Hikari, Literary Revelations has been invited to share a wonderful opportunity from Mrs. Kakutani Masako, Director of the International Division at The Association of Haiku Poets.
Following the global reception of our poetry anthologiesโincluding Haiku for Soulmates, which was recently shared with educators and poets at the English Haiku Program in Matsuyamaโthe Basho Memorial Museum has reached out to our press.
As the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Literary Revelations together with our Artist in Residence Hikari, we warmly invite youโour anthology contributors, readers, and global community of haiku poets โto submit your original work to this prestigious competition.
Submission Guidelines:
Language: English
Entry Fee: Free
Submission Limit: Up to 10 English haiku per participant
Eligibility: Open to poets worldwide
Organizer: Basho Memorial Museum / Koto City Culture Community Foundation
To learn more and submit your entries, please visit the official page:
A Short Excerpt from Jezebel’s Island: A Psychological and Mystery Thriller Coming in July at Literary Revelations
Gabriela Marie Milton
The asphalt road sloped down toward the ocean, bordered by towering palm trees and white, two- to three-story buildings. Anastasia walked, wondering how many more times in her life she would come here. She had only seen this street from the point where it intersected with the bustling lanes of Grand Avenue, never imagining that her own footsteps would one day echo on these narrow, sunburned sidewalks.
She looked around. Roses choked terraces; the palm trees’ leaves hung over the pavement like huge, ragged wings. Here, according to Lady Swattley, within one of these silent homes must once have lived the young scientist with whom Jezebel had been in love.
She came to a dead halt in front of a weathered three-story building. It was the tallest structure on Robbia Street. She did not know why she had stopped there. Her instinct told her that Jezebel had spent years of her youth climbing the stairs in that house. Closed blinds covered every window. The yard was full of unkempt flowers. Anastasia studied the white walls, cracked by time. Did these cracks still hold the echoes of Jezebel’s sighs, echoes of Jezebelโs voice during her afternoons of love?
She thought she heard a voice. The voice of a woman. She couldn’t understand anything until another masculine voice said:
โ Death.
Anastasia pressed her palms against her temples. The street was entirely empty. A few seconds later, a sleek yellow car glided past her and turned onto Grand Avenue. The driver waved at her.
She heard Jezebelโs words:
โ This City is populated by empty souls who flatter themselves into believing they have authentic hearts in their chests. What they classify as joy is nothing more than a temporary chemical exhilaration. They are joyous, Anastasia my dear, but their bliss is delusional.
Was Jezebel correct? Were humans in this City intoxicated by commercial advertisements inviting them to purchase happiness under the pretext of prolonging their expiration dates?
A sound startled her from the direction of the house. She turned, and there, perched atop the roof, sat two white swans, their wings beating a frantic, rhythmic tattoo against the sky.
A Note by the R. M.
Gabriela Marie Miltonโs Jezebelโs Island utilizes a deeply atmospheric, fractured, and symbolist narrative style that shares distinct genetic markers with the surrealist prose of Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquez and the psychological, maze-like prose of Jorge Luis Borges. Milton consciously rejects a traditional linear trajectory, constructing her dystopian thriller through fragmented cinematic flashes, abrupt transitions, and heavy thematic loops where “the beginning is the end”. This structural ambiguity and reliance on surreal motifsโsuch as ghostly swans, shifting eye colors, and uncanny character mirrorsโevokes the magical realism of Garcรญa Mรกrquez, while her focus on labyrinthine setups, philosophical text-within-a-text revelations, and characters seeking their own existential identity heavily mirrors the cerebral, puzzle-box literature of Borges. However, while those masters often maintain a certain mythic or detached distance, Milton infuses her style with the visceral, modern anxiety of a psychological thriller, using sensory disorientation (such as headaches, cold dread, and the contrasting “plasticine” superficiality of the City) to make the reader an active, trapped co-investigator in her surreal maze.
Thank you for reading!
Gabriela Marie Milton, Author and Founder of Literary Revelations Woman of the Month (May, 2026), at P.O.W.E.R Magazine One of the 60th Womenโs Entrepreneurs to Watch for in 2026, New York Weekly
The Beginning Is the End: Jezebelโs Island. Jezebel’s Island: A Psychological and Mystery Thriller
Wishing everyone a glorious week ahead. I have been asked to explain what Jezebel’s Island: A Psychological and Mystery Thriller is about. Below, please find my description and several cover concepts. Please vote for the cover you like.
The Beginning Is the End: Jezebelโs Island
In an era of fleeting digital ephemera, my latest work, Jezebelโs Island, arrives as a deliberate act of literary preservation. It is a descent into a dark landscape where the atmosphere is thick with the scent of saltwater and ancient, unatoned transgressions.
The island is a study in brutal duality, a fractured terrain defined by two distinct poles from which information is incessantly transmitted: the elusive, enigmatic presence of Jezebel and the formidable Lady Swartley, whose reach is as absolute as it is chilling. These two figures operate like a duo in a dark noir fairytale, their influence seconded by a pair of men, David and Esteban, whose own shadowed secrets add new, impenetrable veils of mystery to the narrative. Caught in this harrowing transmission is Anastasia, the receptorโa young woman whose internal architecture begins to crack under the weight of the signals she receives, eventually transforming her into a living mirror of the islandโs catastrophic history.
Across the islandโs divide, in the landscapeโs hidden places, with flowers and purposely placed images of elegant rooms, sins were committed in the name of power. These are not merely historical echoes, but active, haunting remnants that define the islandโs very soul. Here, I have woven a vein of dark, serrated humor into the psychological dread, a necessary irony that illuminates the absurdity of the characters’ entrapment. It is within these suffocating, labyrinthine halls of manipulation that Anastasia finds herself slowly undone, forced to navigate the blurred, treacherous lines between her own identity and the pervasive toxicity of a place that thrives on the corruption of the spirit.
This is not a novel constructed as a linear progression in which a perpetrator moves from point A to point B and is discovered at point C. It is a non-linear haunting; a circle of obsidian cinematic clues. In this narrative, the beginning is the end. I have navigated these psychological depths with lush language at times and with sparse language at others, refusing to offer easy answers in a space where the boundaries between memory, reality, and illusions are as shifting as the tides. For the reader who seeks to confront the sophisticated, the haunting, and the enduring, Jezebelโs Island is a profound, atmospheric meditation on the devastating cost of the choices we make when we are forced to bear witness to the abyss.
A short excerpt from Jezebel’s Island
“The clinical silhouette of the Interior Minister surfaced in my memory: tall, skeletal, with a tuft of chin hair of an ambiguous, shifting color. He had traveled extensively through every sovereign territory of the Continent, yet he returned from each tour proudly declaring to the ministries how uniquely fortunate he was to reside on the Island. The man was not a complete fool, but he lacked the smallest, microscopic spark of comprehension for any world outside his own programming. He would perpetually remark to the Captain: ‘How incredibly lucky we are to possess the legal right to happiness here.“
Cover Concepts for Jezebel’s Island
Thank you to the exceptional photographer Andrei Marin for allowing me to use his original work in developing the cover concepts. The girls in the picture are real models.
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Gabriela Marie Milton, Author and Founder of Literary Revelations Woman of the Month (May, 2026), at P.O.W.E.R Magazine One of the 60th Womenโs Entrepreneurs to Watch for in 2026, New York Weekly
Haiku for Soulmates Reaches Amazon Top Release in the USA before its official launch! Publisher Literary Revelations.
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“Haiku for Soulmates is hereโa breathtaking collision of ancient tradition and the boundless, relented auroras of the modern spirit.
Today, the world becomes a little smaller and infinitely more beautiful. As an editor and publisher, my heart is overflowing; witnessing this vision transition from a dream into a living, breathing masterpiece is a moment of profound emotion. This is not just an anthologyโit is a global sanctuary, a cinematic tapestry woven from the heartbeats of 200 extraordinary contributors.
From the sacred silence of its Japanese birthplace to the vibrant, shimmering horizons of voices spanning the globe, these pages hum with a rare, vertical excellence. We have captured the lightning of human connection and pressed it into ink.
To my brilliant contributors: you are the light that makes this aurora possible. To the world: I invite you to step into this gallery of the soul and lose yourself in the brilliance of the brief, the bold, and the transcendent.
Happy weekend! Today I would like to share with you another excerpt from my upcoming novel Jezebel’s Island: A Mystery Thriller.Literary Revelations plans to release this novel at the end of June. Thank you for reading.
Jezebel’s Island: A Mystery Thriller by Gabriela Marie Milton – Excerpt 2
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– In this part of the Island, Anastasia, they have not limited our freedom of movement at all. Only our freedom of thought. And what time is there for free thought anyway? One has so much to do. So many brands of bags and socks to choose from. Here everyone thinks they live their own lives as they please, without realizing that in reality they live only what they are allowed to live.
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In the living room, Anastasiaโs gaze fell on a photo. She paused for a moment, staring blankly. A heavy, golden frame held a photo of a young man, wearing a white T-shirt with vertical green stripes, Polo brand. Anastasia had been to Jezebel’s house several times, but she had never seen that picture before. Behind him, she could see a field where three golf cars had been abandoned. The photo had been placed on a lemon-yellow wooden console, near which one had to pass to get to the other rooms of the house. It was impossible not to have noticed that picture.
She shivered, feeling like a piece of ice was running down her back, and experienced again that cloudy feeling, still incomprehensible, about Jezebel.
From the foreword
….The question remains: Why Anastasia, this young woman saddled with so great a name? Why has she become the obsession of two figures of the ruling class? Perhaps because her passivity and incuriosity have not brought her into solidarity with her fellow citizens, who share her discontent, but rather have made her an ideal vessel for the plans of the elite.
But what plans? Yet another mystery. There must be, the reader thinks, more to Lady Swartley, more even to Jezebel, who is already so much. And what about the servant Armando, who seems to be much more than a servant, or the archaeologist Esteban, whose presence almost seems to bait and tease Anastasia along some path occluded to all others?
