Welcome everyone to my new Official Dragon Vine Online Journal, place for visitors and fans to catch up on the latest happenings as regards to my artistic world.

To begin with, my book HUNTING SHADOWS: BOOK ONE IN THE DREXUS TAVOSN SAGA is now back at amazon.com. They did a smarmy scan of the cover, however, it is now part of their SEARCH INSIDE program, meaning you can click the cover open, check out some pages or do a word search, etc.

By the way, I am still interested in knowing who you guys are selling used copies of my books for $80.00 and $100.00 a pop, if only to shake your hand. LOL!

Next, it has been a heck of a year, extremely creative, however, I have not had much time to keep up with my website. That is changing, doing my best as time allows. In the process of tearing down and reconstructing a lot of it, so please excuse the problems with the dead links, etc.

Also, if you wish to order HUNTING SHADOWS from the website for $7.95 (on sale from the regular $16.95) then make certain the BUY NOW button has “SALE” marked clearly. I am trying to get them all, yet it has mostly been the main pages I have had a chance to re-work so far. Just cancel anything which pops up in your cart as $16.95, sorry.

Of course, all copies will come with a signature. Send a message/note when you order and I will be sure to SIGN THEM to you, or whomever it is you wish to give a copy to. Cheers.

As for the next books, oh yes, there are more! Part, indeed, a major part of my hiatus has been fact that for nearly a year I was writing 24-7. Working on BOOK TEN! That’s right, folks, BOOK TEN!! And now that my husband has some of his projects out of the way, after the DVD we are producing it is, finally, my turn to get the next few published.

They are worth the wait, people, I promise you!

Beyond that, there has been a recent creative writing project I have been penning called STEVEN’S STORY. A work of fiction about a man, a year divorced, thing which transpired on his fortieth birthday going through a midlife crisis.

During this time, this devote Christian man meets someone, a young man working at the same law firm; someone with secrets to keep.

Just click the buttons on top of the journal to check it out.

As of this moment, I have three and a half of the proposed six episodes posted and ready to read. The remainder should, with all luck be up within a month. End of summer/fall being a quite hectic period here for many things. Again, most are completed, except for sections of episode six, simply a matter of editing now.

Further project completed this year include three new CDs (well, four actually since one is a duo disc) produced by the TEMPLE SOUNDS. Meditational CDs using Tibetan Singing Bowls. Feel free to play with the widgets below. I designed all the graphics/layouts and did the press-machine ready templates for all three. It kept me busy to say the least.

The cover art for CELESTIAL BOWLS is an original computer painting by me. (At the website, SHAMAN BOWLS has an original acrylic painting done by myself as its cover art. Everything else is an original photograph by Emile de Leon.) The printers really altered the colors despite it being formatted properly, yet it was not worth the delay time (or $s) to keep going back and forth.

GODDESS BOWLS' final track is named after me, MELISSA.

Temple Sounds

There are also some ideas for new web graphics. Have some new backgrounds I hope to also post within the next month. Will not promise, however, I shall endeavor to try.

As for those who have emailed me to exchange links, I ask you apologies. Seems there was a problem with my email accounts and most everything ended up in the spam folders. Seeing as I receive over sixty spams a day, and have been unable to check...well, please resend and I shall do my best to accommodate.

New site banners also in the works, check my banner page again soon. Cheers.

And that, for the moment, is all she wrote here.

Cheers, everyone!

Melissa