Pat Winter asked Susan Buffum:

? I hope that you, hubby and Kelly are doing well. I'm sure that you've been waiting with baited breath to hear this :-P : I finally received confirmation that Amazon.ca will be delivering my copy of Miss Peculiar's vol one the first week of April. Sheesh-a-mageesh! Waiting for it has been driving me more nutsoid than ever. All the reviews are terrific! :-)

Susan Buffum Wow-that's a long wait time even for publish on demand! But here's a good thing, the stories are all Kelly's and my favorites, and my sister loved Black Rose, the final story in the book (me too, of course!). I've been working on volume IV- have two more stories to edit and maybe one more to add before I'll call it done. Last night I was skimming through Rookdale and laughing. A young witch (early 20's) living at home still with her mother and grandparents is terrorized by a neighbor's cat. Zoe, the cat's owner, is a mean spirited, nasty girl who beats the cat. So Magellan decides to cast a spell that will turn the cat into a pig so it will be removed from the residential only property as a farm animal...only Magellan has imperfect vision and is dealing with antique numbered vials and confuses a number one and a seven. So when she lures the cat, who has escaped from Zoe's fenced yard, into her home she mixes the potion she's concocted with tuna fish. The cat eats it and much to her shock and dismay it turns into a male human being, not a pig! Turns out he's the last living heir of 1600's witch Mercy Cooper, that Zoe's grandmother, a witch, transformed into a cat years ago (Zoe is not a witch although she desperately wants to be- it skipped her generation!). So Magellan has a naked Ezra Cooper chasing her around the house in the dead of night- she doesn't know who he is yet but he thinks she does and believes that she's finally figured out he was changed into a cat and has freed him from the spell he was under. When she confesses that she had no idea he was a human being under a spell he gets miffed and stalks away from the house after calling her the most inept little witch he's ever met. Well- you know they're going to fall in love, and her changing him back is going to have serious repercussions in the seaside community...Anyway, hope to be working on this novel over Easter weekend. Hope this little peek into a new novel cheers you up some about the slow service from Amazon! Finally, if you consider buying any of my other books please contact me first at my email address which is on the about author page at the back of the book.

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