| About the author of Darkness Descending ... - Favorite Books: Darkness Descending, Phantom of the Opera (G. Leroux), To Kill a Mockingbird (H. Lee), Things We Couldn’t Say (Diet Eman), Veronika Decides to Die (P. Coelho), The Great Gatsby (F.S. Fitzgerald) - Favorite Genres: Fiction - Favorite Characters: Robert Petrovic (Darkness Descending), Erik (Phantom of the Opera), Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird) - Recent Reads: All of Paulo Coelho’s books - Favorite TV Shows: House, Boston Legal, Absolutely Fabulous, MASH, Home Improvement - Favorite Daytime Show: All My Children - Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Craig Ferguson - Favorite Show From the 1980’s – 1990’s: The Equalizer - Favorite Movies: An Affair to Remember, Casablanca, Charade, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Gods & Monsters, His Girl Friday, The Godfather Trilogy, A Bronx Tale - Favorite Actors (past or present): Cary Grant, Ian McKellen, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman - Favorite Music Artists: Michael Crawford, Elton John, Matchbox 20, James Blunt, Queen, Josh Groban, Frank Sinatra, Linda Eder, Golden Earring, Shania Twain, Phil Collins - Favorite Songs: Love Changes Everything (Michael Crawford), Tears and Rain (James Blunt), Forever and For Always (Shania Twain), When You Kiss Me (Shania Twain), My Way (Frank Sinatra), Somebody to Love (Queen), Same Mistake (J. Blunt), Can’t Hear the Music (J. Blunt), Forever Young (Alphaville), Insatiable (Darren Hayes), Swear it Again - Songs I Hate: Anything by James Taylor; rap - Best Broadway OCR: Phantom of the Opera, Jekyll & Hyde, Les Miserables - Cities I Love: New York, London - Cities I’ve Visited: Various U.S. cities, London, Amsterdam, Den Haag (The Hague), Rotterdam, Maastricht, Arnhem, Texel, Brussels - Dream Vacation: New Zealand - Places I Want to Visit: Southern Europe, Romania, New Zealand - Favorite Sports Teams: Pittsburgh Penguins, Ajax Amsterdam, Manchester United, New England Patriots, New York Yankees - Favorite Sports to Watch: Hockey, Tennis, Soccer, MMA - Marital Status: Married to my Dutchman, Michiel - Odd Tidbit: I won’t buy a Christmas CD unless it has O Holy Night on it. Nobody sings O Holy Night like Michael Crawford! - Pets: A male Pekingese named Barney, and a female yellow Labrador named Allie - General Interests: Musical theater on Broadway and the West End, World War II history, traveling, writing HOME |