Brush with Fate

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To my dear readers and friends and former students:

I'm happy to announce that my novel, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, has been made into a beautiful Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, to air on CBS on February 2, bearing the CBS title Brush With Fate. The Hallmark director tells me it's the most ambitious project in their 52-year history of producing 215 films. Shot entirely in The Netherlands, it stars Glenn Close and Ellen Burstyn. The brilliant screenplay was written by Richard Russo who won the Pulitzer for his novel, Empire Falls.

I hope you enjoy the movie.

Susan Vreeland

See the 'Vermeer' painting commissioned for the TV show and read about how it was created.
	From the web site of the painter: "The works of American contemporary painter Jonathan Janson openly evoke those of the seventeenth-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. Both his interiors and portraits capture the fleeting spirit of our age within the framework of solid knowledge of painting technique and composition. " His modern-day interpretations of Vermeer include such titles as these: Young Man with a Computer Girl Playing an Electric Guitar Young Man with a Baseball Hat Girl Listening to a Radio Young Woman Reading Glamour
Read reviews of the TV show
	Jane Henderson: St Louis Post Dispatch " With a novel transformed into this Sunday's "Hallmark Hall of Fame" movie and a modern seven-figure publishing contract, Vreeland has found success by reimagining history. She's made the past "pop."
	Ron Miller: Columnists.com "In the large ensemble cast, which includes Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn, the standout is Emmy-winner Glenn Close, whose mysterious Cornelia is a twisted, neurotic spinster, turned into a frightened and inhibited creature by the secret she's been carrying for most of her life."
	Nimble Spirit "Visually lovely, evoking a sense of Vermeer’s light and color, it also manages to keep in its sights the mystery that is art and the way art can take hold of us across the centuries."