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Hi everyone: For those who have not done so already, the vote is still on! For the best cover of ENCHANTING THE SWAN coming soon. Click on the url below and you will be led to the website where you can pledge  your valuable vote

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If the click does not work, just copy and paste it into your own url.

So many things happen in ENCHANTING THE SWAN!

Paul and Fiona meet at William & Mary as grad students. Paul plays piano and Fiona plays cello and they start playing beautiful music together: The Swan by Camille St. Saëns…and they fall in love

 

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They kiss on the Crim Dell Bridge at William & Mary, known for the best College kisses ever!

Enchanting W&M Crim Bridge 1

Disaster strikes in Brussels, in the restaurant-café “Roi d’Espagne” in the middle of the picture below on the famous Grand Place: Fiona breaks up! Because she is of old nobility and her godparents want a noble Belgian for her…

Guildhouses in the Grand Place in Brussels Belgium

Paul does a summer course at Brussel’s UBL but feels miserable because of his loss of Fiona

BRUSSEL,BELGIUM - 18 MAY, 2015: A formal alley at La Cambre, is a renowned architecture and visual arts school founded by Henry van de Velde in Brussels in 1926.

He is offered an internship at First Swiss Bank in Geneva and takes the TGV

Paris, Gare de Lyon: People with luggage walking to their train.

At  First Swiss Bank, things go horribly wrong: Paul gets blamed by a sneaky rich girl for a huge swindle

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Paul’s office in Old Town Geneva

 

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View of Mont Blanc from the Dole

He must leave beautiful Switzerland and takes a job at First Swiss Bank in New York

New York Skyline at sunset

To his great surprise Fiona has moved here but is divorcing from her noble husband who mistreated her badly. Will Paul and Fiona get back together again and play the Swan?

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Will the two swans be in love again?

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May 4 Audrey Hepburn’s Birthday Remembered

audrey-and-her mother when I was born in 1936

Cute Audrey with her mother when she was little

Johnny around 9_crop

Me when I was about her age then, seven years difference

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Audrey, 13, when she lived in Arnhem about 10 miles away from us and when we met

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Us on May 5, 1945 when we were so happy that the dreadful war was over and we were still alive.

Lady Audrey

Ballet in Arnhem at the Conservatorium, 16 years old.

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Audrey’s portrait in 1950 that stood on my grand piano.

John skiing in Swiss Alps

Me in the French Alps close to Geneva where I worked

Audrey in Tolochenaz Switzerland

Audrey at Tolochenaz near Lausanne where she lived while I worked in Geneva. Public Photo

Audrey in Ethiopia  Audrey in Vietnam

Audrey as devoted UNICEF Ambassadrice, shortly before she passed away. UNESCO Photos

 

Far away but always close.

 

 

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Ingrid The Magnificent Viking

John

 

Ingrid The Magnificent Viking is a survival tale.  After his girlfriend broke up with him, John goes for a hike in his beloved Swiss mountains to forget his sorrow, but at sunset gets lost amidst rocks and pines and a torrential creek, almost drowns, and is forced to spend a long night in the freezing cold. Recovering the next morning from his ordeal in the lodge where he stays,  he stumbles into a Norwegian goddess with whom he falls in love on the ski slopes. He thinks it was all destiny.

A tear-jerking love story.

Get it on: http://amzn.to/10bb8yA

 

Cover design by Melanie Stephens

                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Ingrid

 

Melanie Stephens

Illustrator/ Designer/ Owner
 


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