Tag: EROTIC GOTHIC ROMANCE

Plans are in the works for a book launching party - tentative date is May 7th and are in discussion with a great gallery/lounge in San Francisco. More details are to come, but it is certain we will have live band A/V great food and drinks. Also, contemporary gothic jewelry and accessories will be available to purchase. The theme is dark romance and all are encouraged to come dressed in the style and with the attitude. Get ready to celebrate!!!

The day we shot the scenes in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco was absolutely gorgeous. Normally in April it is cold and windy, but it was hot. I had the honour of being rowed by gorgeous super model Tosh Yanez across the lake. It was the perfect backdrop to film the scene of Andre rowing Alexandra out to revisit the house on the island.

Rowboats can be rented seven days a week, all year.  I recommend it as a romantic interlude. The scenery is stunning. It truly makes you feel like you are in your own romance novel. It's wonderful to fall in love, if only for the day.

Many have told me they believe "The House on Black Lake" is a ""Twilight "for adult fans of the popular books and movies. And, perhaps this is true. My book is about an obsessive love, a devious antagonist and the lure of another equally beautiful specimen. It is unclear what powers Ramey Sandeley, Georgie La Pointe and Andre Labat possess, if they bite or inhibit Alexandra's soul in ways that have not yet been explored. But, clearly Alexandra is "taken" by these men, betrayed and transformed. In the music video of the book, many are certain they seen between the pictures, and that she indeed has been bitten and transformed.

Transformation is a cruelly painful and ecstatic process. It drains the old blood and infuses new. We can all experience this, if we choose to take the path that passion lays down and open ourselves to receive the gift from others.

Are the men in the book vampires - blood suckers - or infusers? You be the judge - either way Alexandra , like Bella, will be entering a different realm at book's end.

When Alexandra enters the Sandeley's summer home, the first thing she sees is a lineup of  mounted animal head trophies. I never imaged  would find a house with such specimens in the entryway. So, I was quite shocked when I first entered the elegant Chateau Tivoli B and B in San Francisco and saw the mounted animals heads in the in the entryway. I immediately new that I must shoot the film trailer in this beautifu historicl Victorian hotel.

The sexy bed shown in the video trailers for "The House on Black Lake" is from the Mark Twain Room of the Chateau Tivoli in San Francisco. The Famed B & B is located on Alamo Square and has a colorful history. The room is intimate and warm and the bed is a work of art with gorgeous, shiny dark wood, diaphanous curtains and luxurious bedding. It was the perfect place to shoot the scene set in a cottage in St. Agathe des Monts, Quebec, where Alexandra and Andre share their first interlude.  More about Chateau Tivoli at http://www.chateautivoli.com/

The Mark Twain Room in Chateau Tivoli

I have created a new music video is collaboration with Peter Busboom. Pictures taken by photographer Peter Busboom at Chateau Tivoli are viewed as slideshow with a haunting guitar solo called "Mysterious Encounter". It is a depiction of love scene with Alexandra and Andre.

The video may be viewed on utube at http://www.youtube.com/user/houseonblacklake?feature=mhw4#p/a/u/0/BPFtb6P0vvQ.