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Chanson de l’Ange is La fin!!!!!
Written by Paisley Swan Stewart
Tuesday, 26 June 2012 04:28

Book Cover

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!!!!

Swannie

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 June 2012 04:30
Tiny Sneak Peek of a Scene From Book 3
Written by Paisley Swan Stewart
Wednesday, 18 April 2012 05:26

Greetings fans and friends!  I just completed revisions on Chanson de l’Ange!  However, there is still more work to be done before submission can begin.  I have more work to do on the covers, and there are some formatting issues that need to be addressed on my end before I send the revised manuscript to my publisher.  Meanwhile, I am posting a tiny snippet of a scene from Book 4 for my readers and fans!   Hope it grabs your attention!

This excerpt is from Book 3:

“Recoiling in shock, Angelique and the audience saw for the first time that Papillon was not the angel he had claimed to be, nor was he even a man.  He was in fact, part angel and part gargoyle, with the sculpted torso and muscled legs of a tall, handsome human male, but having sharp talons in the place of smooth hands.  His skin was nearly white and he was bare-chested, with his loins girded by a skirting of silver chain mail and lunar moth wings.  Half of his face was strikingly good looking and resembled the marble features of the great god Apollo, but the other half was hideous, with a gargoyle’s scaly black visage and a yellow eye.  His hair was thick and fell to his shoulders in silvery-white waves, and bony protrusions stuck out from either side of his head like a devil’s horns.  Silvery-white webbed bat wings fanned out behind him, and he stood proudly on cloven hooves, a prince of the underworld.”

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Last Updated on Thursday, 9 August 2012 01:52
4 More Chapters To Go!
Written by Paisley Swan Stewart
Sunday, 4 March 2012 11:47

Greetings fans and friends!   Just a quick update.  My sisters and I are in the middle of packing up my mother’s house and moving her to a lovely assisted living “resort”.   We call it a resort because it has EVERYTHING on site that a person could want.  We made this decision very quickly last week after my mother had another fall and badly broke her harm.  We agonized about our decision but it seems the best place for her.  She won’t be so isolated and will have lots of opportunities to socialize.  She even told us that she would get to wear all her pretty clothes again to go to dinner each night.  This statement was a relief, as she has barely been eating lately.  It has been an extremely stressful and heartbreaking experience packing up her things, because she is downsizing from a large 3 bedroom home to a small but very nice 2 bedroom apartment.  Sadly, we cannot fit all her belongings in the new place, so a very large estate sale is forthcoming.  My mother is now in the early stages of dementia but rapidly declining, so at least we can be assured that she is safe and will be moved to the memory care unit when the need arises.

Somehow I’ve been able to keep up revisions and am happy to report that I have only 4 more chapters left to revise!  I confess there are days when I don’t have the energy to work on Chanson, but I do when my brain is working well and when I’m not so stressed.  Also, I hope you will all visit my boards on Pinterest where I have been pinning images that pertain to Chanson de l’Ange, my retelling of Phantom of the Opera.  There are some hints about what is to come in the revised 4 part series, so check it out! (no spoilers though)   Here is one of the images from my Pinterest board:

Gown

And here is the link where you can see much more:  Chanson de l’Ange Pinterest

 

 

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Last Updated on Sunday, 4 March 2012 11:47
From Darkness to Light
Written by Paisley Swan Stewart
Tuesday, 7 February 2012 06:31

Swan

Greeting fans and friends!  So how many of you have received your POTO 25th anniversary DVD?   Mine will be arriving on Thursday and I cannot wait to see the production again.  Seeing it one time at the theater was not enough.  It amazes me that after all these years-and from the time I was 11 years old, I still have Phantom on the brain!   Good thing too, because my passion for the Phantom story fuels my efforts in getting the revisions done for my own POTO retelling.  Revisions are going well, but as you will see, the challenges in my life are many right now, so it is often difficult for me to really concentrate on what I am doing.  Still, I am persevering and WILL get the 4 part revised series published and released within the next 6 months.

Now I must bring up a personal matter and I would like to invite those of you who have been following me here, to follow me on my new personal blog as well: Alzheimers From Darkness to Light  This is where I will chronicle my husband’s battle with Alzheimers Disease, and my own personal challenges as I too, deal with the many changes in our lives.

As always, thank you for your support and encouragement.  Keep checking this site for updates and announcements!

Swannie

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 February 2012 07:05
Welcome 2012!!!!
Written by Paisley Swan Stewart
Saturday, 31 December 2011 06:46

Swannie in her new hat!

(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

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Last Updated on Saturday, 31 December 2011 06:51
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