About the Author:
Denise was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised on the fringes of the French Quarter on North Rampart Street for the first few years of her life. She lived all over the southern part of Louisiana, New Orleans, Destrehan, Chalmette (Yes, she was a chalmation!), and Slidell. As well she lived in Picayune, Mississippi, a half-breed- half coonass and half redneck! (Forgive the punt) Nevertheless, now her home is in Pearlington, Mississippi, in which she regards as Home Sweet Home!
Denise will never bury the memories from where she have came from, her roots, her heritage and will always recall New Orleans as it use to be when she was a child growing up, simply beautiful. Remembering friday nights on Music Street as she and her grandparents would entertain relatives by playing the piano, singing and talking about the good ol' days enlaced with good food and cold duck, taking a sip from her maw-maw's glass when she was not looking and how she will always hold the memories of the Claiborne Aveune bridge over lingering Japonica Street, her grandparents lil' shotgun house right across the street from the SPCA where she would go and visit the stray dogs and cats, wanting to adopt each and every one of them.
Denise will always hold close to her heart the picturesque Destrehan Plantation that graces River Road with all its grandure and magnificent beauty, recalling the first day she ever laid eyes on the glorious plantation in which she held her breath and now can recall the history that lived within it's walls over the many, many years, which to her are simply pleasing to the soul. She will keep alive within her thoughts all the cajun coonasses in Chalmette, P.G.T. Beauregard High School and the rumors of Bloody Mary down the road in Poydras, and will always think of those special to her in Picayune, two souls that are always within her thoughts, but how she had grown to love her home of the past thirteen years and all of her family and friends in Pearlington, Mississippi.
Denise is a stay at home mother with two beautiful children, Brittany Michelle and Dalton Hunter. Also she has two outstanding kids, grown that live in Picayune, Cody Aaron and Ashley Marie. By marriage, to Michael Lawernce, her soul-mate, she has a howling stepson, Derek Michael. She enjoys cooking, most famous for her Creole gumbo and loves working out in the yard. Denise and her family are rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina just as everyone on the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast and in her spare time she relishes in writing. Her one true desire in life that keeps her grounded when she finds herself somewhere on the edge about to jump!
Denise has always found the myths and legends of vampires, ghost and past spirits to be enchanting, proud at the fact a part of her heritage consist of these things along with voodoo queens and infamous pirates, that she can only be so humble to write about. As a child and even now, Denise is always in love with the thoughts and envisions of the sultry plantation days, the romantic gesture, seeing herself within her past life living among those days, also envisioning herself gracing the narrow streets of the Vieux Carre of yesterday if only in her colorful imagination.
Denise will always be thankful that the founder of La Nouvelle d' Orleans, Jean Baptiste le Moyne Sieur de Bienville and his men cleared away the first thick canebrakes on the mighty Mississippi River, also thankful for Andrew Jackson defeting the enemy in the Battle of New Orleans, proud of the St. Louis Cathedral that graces Jackson Square, wishing she could of bowed down before the Baroness Micaela de Pontalba and forever respectful of the above ground tombs of the St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, remembering the three red xxx she engraved on the tomb of Marie Laveau, that will forever be the Queen of Voodoo in Naw'lins.
About The Book:
Isabella St. Clair: Vamp of New Orleans, the Vieux Carre is an exciting, stimulating, and arousing new book written by native New Orleans author, who has been compared to leading New Orleans authors and their works, Isabella St. Clair: Vamp of New Orleans, the Vieux Carre could be the next big southern thriller. It is filled with conflicting trials and tribulations of being an unpretentious slave in the Deep South. Read how Isabella St. Clair survives slavery and becomes an evil but yet beautiful vampire! Seeking vengeance on her beau monde family and takes back what is truly hers, St. Clair Plantation, and freedom, through blood, sweat, and tears.
Isabella St. Clair: Vamp of New Orleans, the Vieux Carre is fulfilled with mystery and death rich within the muddy Louisiana Swamps that besieges St. Clair Plantation in Destrehan, Louisiana that graces that of River Road and the mighty Mississippi River. Conjured up voodoo spells come animated with the help of Madame Jacqueline Dominique, infamous Voodoo Queen of New Orleans and her gris-gris, but are over powered by perpetual life after death, vampires that walk among the living all in the heart of the French Quarter, the Vieux Carre!
Official Winner of Free Book Drawing, Isabella St. Clair: Vamp of New Orleans, the Vieux Carre, Nancy Ortiz-Surun!
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OFFICIAL BOOK RELEASE, DECEMBER 3RD, 2007Buy Isabella St. Clair: Vamp of New Orleans, the Vieux Carre at Amazon.com Now! ..
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