First of all, I am very happy to announce that my second novel has just been published on Amazon and Barnes and Noble as an eBook and soon a paperback. This book was a real challenge for me, because my story and my characters have moved past the original Phantom storyline and into adventures that are completely new. I had to decide how my characters would behave in their new situation, and create a compelling story to propel them along. And of course to set the stage for Book Three!

In the latest installment of my ‘Disfigured’ Series,… Read More

‘The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them — to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.’    Vanna Bonta

 When I was a child, my father worked as a custodian at the grade school I attended. We lived only about a mile away. My mother worked also, so in the summer when school was out, my father would take me to work with him – to school, in other words.

He would unlock one or two of the classrooms, or the small… Read More

When I first started writing my first book in my Phantom of the Opera series, Disfigured, I wanted to design the book to look as though it had been published in the 1880s. I’ve always appreciated the style and fonts, the little graphics and the ornate dropped caps found in old books. I’m no modernist, obviously! Give me serifs, lots of serifs!

So I wanted to find some symbol or graphic to close each chapter, and when I was looking through what was available in Word, I came across a yin-yang symbol. And it suddenly dawned on me: that… Read More