I’ve been away from my blog for a while – my blog page was under repair, and many other things were happening that kept me away from writing. I’m back at it now however, and working on the third book in my ‘Disfigured’ Series. Meanwhile, I wanted to share a photoshop picture that my friend Sharon Robertson made for me. For anyone who has read the first book in my series, titled “Disfigured, a Gothic Romance”, you might recall that my heroine, Sylvie, is a cook who prepares and delivers meals to her very misanthropic, angst-ridden client who… Read More

By far the greatest challenge I had in writing my second Phantom-related book, ‘About-Face’, was the need to be inside Erik’s head. Sylvie Bessette is and always will be the protagonist of my series, and the books are told from her point of view. It is primarily her story I am presenting, and I cannot stress how fond I am of Sylvie, in spite of all her flaws as a heroine! But in ‘About-Face’, Erik and Sylvie spend several months apart, and I could not figure out any way to describe what is happening to… Read More

I have added one or two excerpts from my book, second in the Disfigured Series, but none of them happened to take place in America. This particular excerpt is at the beginning of Chapter Twenty-five, not long after Erik and Sylvie are brought together again after a separation of several months. It features one of the more heart-pounding adventures they experience. Think of Erik in the wild west (well, sort of wild).

Enjoy! If you have not yet read ‘About-Face’, I don’t think this will contain any spoilers.

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