Greetings fans and friends! Just a short update to let you know that I am on the final round of the Chanson galley proofs. Between changes with my publisher and my own chronic health issues, there continue to be delays, but we are very close now! Please keep visiting this site for more updates in the coming weeks!
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Greetings fans and friends! It is my greatest pleasure to announce that my complete 3 volume Phantom of the Opera based book series is now finished and has been submitted to my publisher! As some of you know, I began writing Chanson de l’Ange in February of 2004. Throughout the writing process I have been hit with one challenge and crisis after another, and there have been times when I thought Chanson would never actually be published in its complete form-but that day is just around the corner.
All I can do now is hope that I have given my readers a story with a beginning, middle, and end that will satisfy and thrill them until the last page! In just a few weeks Chanson will be available through on-line resources in both paperback and ebook formats! Check back here for the soon to be announced released date!!!!
I would like to thank all my supporters, readers, and fellow fans for your interest in my books. Some of you have been with me since February 2004 when I began posting Chanson chapter by chapter on a Gerard Butler message board-and some of you even before that via personal emails! Had it not been for your encouragement and love of this story, I would have given up years ago! Thank you!!!!
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Greetings fans and friends! I hope you are all enjoying the early spring season. So far, ours has been quite soggy and they are predicting more of the same. I hope it’s drier where you are! Well, my mother is now all moved into her new assisted living home. Watching her go through this has been a huge eye-opener for all of us as we get a true picture of what life is like for the elderly. For a while she was refusing to eat and was becoming quite frail, and it has been a very difficult and sad experience for my mom to lose her home. But after a few weeks of being miserable about the move and the loss of her independence, she is now adjusting and feeling much better about things.
Her new apartment is quite spacious and very lovely, and my sisters did a wonderful job decorating it and arranging all her belongings . She is now beginning to meet other people in residence there, and although the bad break in her shoulder will take a long time to completely heal, she is on the mend and is now able to move her arm a little. My sister is working with her to get her sewing again…so hopefully she’ll be back to making the quilts she loves.
Meanwhile, my hubby and I are making more adjustments to accommodate the changes in our own lives as we try to make peace with the early stages of his Alzheimers. In fact, I’m seeing some improvements in his cognitive function as we implement a few cutting edge supplemental and dietary changes in his daily routine. Based on updated FDA warnings about statin drugs and their role in cognitive impairment, I sill believe my husband’s condition was caused by the Lovastatin he was prescribed for 10 years before the connection between statin drugs and dementia was made. I am still hopeful that my Bill will not progress to the moderate and final stages of the disease, and despite the difficulties and disappointments of his condition, we are living our lives as if we have many more glorious years together.
Now, on to Chanson news: The woman whose photo I’ve posted above is beautiful silent screen actress, Miss Maude Fealy. I had originally discovered a different photo of her a few years ago (which has been previously posted here) which then became the muse for Christine in my book, but at that time I did not know who she was. Upon discovering photos of her on Pinterest that were labeled with her name, I’ve started my own gallery of her photos, and this particular one is my favorite. Does she not make the perfect Christine as written in my book?
I am now just ONE chapter away from being finished with revisions. There have been MANY unavoidable interruptions…but I expect to begin submissions by May.
To view more stunning, evocative images that will make the story come even more alive for you, please visit Chanson de l’Ange on Pinterest
My best wishes to you all!
Swannie
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(this hat was made for me by sister Reba! One of my favorite Christmas gifts this year!)
So…..what did you get for Christmas?????
Greetings fans and friends! I hope this New Years Eve finds you recounting all the blessing in your life, and if your 2011 was miserable….then may I say along with you…good riddance, 2011! With all the upheaval in our world, I pray that you and your loved ones have managed to establish your own little “postage stamp of peace” regardless of the insanity that has become planet earth. Throughout this holiday season as my family has been grappling with one personal crisis after another, I am thankful to have a hand full of very close friends who always stand beside me, and I am thankful to have a very great love…a love that many never find in all their lifetime. I am also thankful that despite my own weaknesses, fears, and shortcomings….my faith in God somehow remains, even though at times it seems a puny, inadequate thing. In times like these when all is being shaken around me, I reflect that I do not live by my own faith….but by the faith OF Jesus Christ. The very same faith that rose him from the dead is the faith that upholds me.
And so, we….you and I, will move onto the next year not knowing what is to come. Know however, that after taking a much needed break from revisions, this author is back to work on the revised Chanson de l’Ange 4 part series, and it is my aim to bring this series to its completion and publication early this year. At the time of release, the Chanson series will be available in both paper back and ebook format, so please keep checking the site for updates…and thank you so much to those of you who have been sending me kind, uplifting, and encouraging emails and messages.
Cheers!
Swannie
2 CommentsGreetings fans and friends! I just wanted to post a quick update on the publication progress of Chanson de l’Ange~Book Two. As you all know, Book One was published last June by Xlibris, a ‘Print On Demand’ company. Over the past year I have been working on revising Book Two for publication through Xlibris, well, that was the plan….
However, I am now pleased to announce that I have been picked up by a small but rapidly expanding traditional publisher! For the time being, Book One will remain under the Xlibris banner as I finish up revisions for Book Two, then Book Two~The Angel’s Song will be published by my new publisher.
The new plan is to release Book Two in just a few months, and then after Book Two has had a chance to take hold in the market, I will re release Book One with my new publisher and close my Xlibris account! If it sounds a bit complicated…it is, but my new publisher assures me that it can be done. For the time being, Book One will be still be sold through all the on-line sources where it is now listed and I do not foresee any disruption in its availability to the public during the coming transition.
Treasureline Publishing is my new publisher, and just as soon as info for Chanson de l’Ange has been added to their ‘shelves’ I will post a link here. I am very excited to be working with a company that has created a family atmosphere with their authors.
Meanwhile, my beta and I are currently down to the last few chapters of edits on Book Two, and I do believe I will be submitting the manuscript in a month or so!
In addition to this exciting news, Nathan has now begun work on the orchestrations for my song The Bleeding Rose, to be recorded by the lovely young soprano Toni Gibson. We are so thrilled that the CD is finally coming together, and with some exciting new artists to showcase! If you would like to follow our progress on the Chanson CD, check out this link where you can meet our guests artists, and where I will be posting updates as work on the CD goes forward.
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