{"product_id":"9781608201488","title":"Illustrated Men","description":"Art-inspired short stories contributors for this collection include: L. John Williams, Todd Schoonover, Veronica, Aleksandr Voinov \u0026amp; Marquesate, Linda Schnelle, John Stewart, George Seaton, Gabriel Morgan, Alan Bennett Ilagan, Todd Peissig, Harold Dixon, Justin Shephred, Clare London, and artist Michael Breyette.\u003cp\u003eA thousand words, a single picture...\u003cbr\u003eSince artists are often called upon to turn prose into a visual for such things as book covers, I wondered, would writers be able to pick up the creative torch and run in the opposite direction? I had little doubts they could and it got me excited wondering what they would come up with for my own pastel paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo with that it mind I though it would be fun to launch a contest and invite friends, fans of my art, amateur scribes, professionals writers, really anyone who wanted, to pick a painting from my body of work and build a short story around it.\u003cbr\u003eAs the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. I wanted to find out if that was true.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLR Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49989987631344,"sku":"9781608201488","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608201488","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}