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Karen Laurel Cain Haws-Dearing

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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PRINTED BOOKS AVAILABLE HERE AND THOSE AVAILABLE AT OTHER ONLINE BOOKSTORES? These printed volumes of my novel are the fully corrected version with the character spellings chosen by the series creators. The books available at the other online bookstores are my original version with alternate character spellings as explained here on my website. The story itself, however, is identical no matter which version you are reading. The books with the alternate character spellings available elsewhere are more expensive, because they are produced using much higher quality materials. The printed books I’ve produced here are cheaper bargain versions. I was curious about what the difference would be between these and the more expensive versions of my book. I was relieved and very pleased when my first proof copies began arriving. The first one to arrive was the large-print paperback, and it is a very nice book. The cover quality is identical to the more expensive version. What is different is that Lulu has used a lighter-weight paper for the pages within, so it is about 3/4 of the thickness of the higher-quality version of my large-print paperback. The same is true of the quality of the new size 5 1/2" X 8 1/2" smaller paperback which I will explain further shortly. The print is smaller, so you need good eyes or glasses, but it is also a really nice book. I have also received the bargain hardbound 6" X 9" book, and I honestly can't tell the difference between it and the more expensive hardbound book, except that it doesn't have the worldwide distribution barcode on the back cover. You can download the fully corrected version of my novel for free below here before investing even this much money in a printed version. I have personally inscribed and autographed high-quality keepsake volumes of this fully corrected version available on eBay under my seller ID kandycain1587. I thought that making my printed books available here with bargain materials, although I can’t inscribe and sign them for you, would help my readers hit hard by the current economic crisis. If you decide to purchase your book here Lulu will manufacture and ship it from their printing facility that is closest to you, which will also make the shipping charges less for those living in other parts of the world. Unfortunately, Lulu doesn’t have the 6” X 9” paperback version available in this cheaper product. They do have the even smaller version that I mentioned above, a 5 1/2" X 8 1/2" "digest" paperback size for which I reformatted my book, and it is the most economical version I've created here (aside from the free download). They also have an hardbound large-print available in the economy line. So, I created that new version of my novel also, and those 2 new versions are exclusively available here on my website and nowhere else. Just as I did with the free downloads, I have set the "preview" buttons so you can read the entire book before buying a printed version if you want to, or you can just snag a free download.

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Ron Perlman's masterful acting as the character, Vincent, in Ron Koslow's beloved late 1980s television series, Beauty and the Beast, inspired me to write this sequel to the series. Vincent's heart wrenching grief over the death of the great love of his life, Catherine Chandler, mirrored my own buried grief over the death of my eternal companion. But, is Catherine really dead? In Love's Journey to Awakening, we reenter the tunnels and caverns of Father's world under the streets of New York City, and learn how the tunnel-dwellers there, with the assistance of Helpers from the world above, work together to rescue Catherine and restore her to Vincent. Along the way, they face a new threat from a villain even more evil than Gabriel was, and they finally learn where Vincent really came from. If you haven't already purchased and viewed all three seasons of Beauty and the Beast, which are now available on DVD, please do so before you even open my book, because this story begins where the series ends. Many of your favorite characters from the series have been brought back to life in this new story line. Among them are Vincent, originally played by Ron Perlman, Catherine Chandler, originally played by Linda Hamilton, Father, originally played by Roy Dotrice, ADA Joe Maxwell, originally played by Jay Acovone, Pascal, originally played by Armin Shimerman, Mouse, originally played by David Greenlee, and Diana Bennett, originally played by Jo Anderson. These are only a few of the memorable original characters appearing in this new story. I wrote this book to put smiles back on the faces of the grieving fans who were heartbroken, as I was, over both the demise of the series and the death of Catherine Chandler. My target BATB fans are those who, like myself in early 2007 when I was writing this novel, have not yet discovered any of the other fan-fiction sequels available in the world of Beauty and the Beast. So, please read and enjoy! With love, Laurel

LOVE'S JOURNEY TO AWAKENING--PERSPECTIVES:

I want to tell all of you, both my readers and my potential readers, a little bit about the perspectives from which my book was written and edited.  I, of course, wrote it from the perspective of an obsessed fan of the Beauty and the Beast television series.  When I began this project at the beginning of July, 2007, I watched the episodes from all three seasons in a continuous loop, one per day, in order to get all of the details straight as I wove my story into the series.  My editor, Dr. Thayle Anderson, edited my work from an entirely different perspective, which added depths that could never have been achieved otherwise.  Not only did Thayle give me the benefit of his masculine perspective, which was extremely helpful, but he is not a fan of fantasy, nor has he ever seen a single episode of Beauty and the Beast. Because fantasy is not his "thing," he hammered away at the plausibility of my story.  He effectively kept me tethered to the ground, while my imagination soared.  That helped me to craft a fairytale, which while completely impossible, is also believable.  Because Thayle has also never viewed Beauty and the Beast, he asked me thought provoking questions that an editor who was familiar with the series would never have thought to ask, which helped me to write a story which stands alone without the absolute necessity of having seen the series, although I strongly encourage my readers to do so. Dr. Anderson's discussion of my novel appears at the bottom of this column.

Just like the television series, my novel is a cross-genre work which includes story elements from all of fantasy, romance, adventure, mystery, and crime dramas.  I have tried with my writing style to emulate the lyrical ambience that Ron Koslow achieved in his beautiful series scripts.  You will have to be the judge of just how well I succeeded with that endeavor.  If you enjoy my book, I would love to see your review of Love’s Journey to Awakening on Amazon and anywhere else you feel like posting one.  You may also rate my book and post a review of it on my webpage here on Lulu by following my instructions appearing just above my books.

Now, the question has been asked; Why did I choose to set up shop on a self-publishing site like Lulu?  The answer to that question has to do with the publishing industry’s perspective of Beauty and the Beast fans.  I want to tell you about a decision I finally came to regarding publishers and book agents.  My research into that area was very discouraging for a number of reasons.  As I was saying, my book is a cross-genre work.  In my quest for a publisher or book agent, I ran across two problems.  There was resistance from some mainstream publishers due to the fact that my book doesn’t solidly fit into any one genre category, and they have the attitude that a sequel to a twenty-plus-year-old television series will only be appealing to the "narrow cult-niche" they feel we occupy. The ones who were interested, I was not at all interested in having represent me, because they sell lurid trashy romance without any redeeming moral values. I definitely had no interest in engaging in struggles with their editors who would be pressuring me to water down or delete the moral underpinnings in my story.  I was not about to sign away my rights and control of my work just to watch my efforts to create a pretty story destroyed.

So, I finally came to the conclusion that I was going to have to publish this book and probably any future Beauty and the Beast books myself, at my own expense, until we can convince a worthy publisher that we are not just a "narrow cult-niche!"  The only person I have now signed control of this book over to is Ron Koslow and his production company, and as you will see in my copyright citation, I am not asking for nor expecting any payment for it.  I hope that it won’t be too long before he has time to come and get it! I am just babysitting the story while it provides closure and comfort to others, and if that is all it ever accomplishes, I will be very happy.

Finally, there is the perspective of awareness, my own awareness that in the printed copies of my novel available in the worldwide marketplace I used an alternate spelling for Jo Anderson’s character, Diana Bennett, and other major and minor characters in my novel.  When I first began writing Love’s Journey to Awakening, the third season DVDs had not yet been released.  The copy that I was working from didn’t have the credits intact with the spelling of the characters who were added in the third season. So, I used the spelling that I was familiar with, "Dianna," for Jo Anderson’s character as well as alternate spellings for other characters from the original series. When the third season of Beauty and the Beast was finally released, and I was watching it to be sure there weren’t any conflicts in blending my story into the series, I discovered, to my dismay, that the unusual spelling "Diana" had been used for Jo Anderson’s character in the credits.  I am very obsessive/compulsive, so this was an extremely annoying problem to me.  I thought very seriously about attempting to go back through my entire five-hundred page novel and change the spelling of her name.  However, I finally decided that as frequently as her name occurs in my novel, because she is such a major character in my story, it would be a dangerous undertaking.  I felt that it would be far worse to overlook any of those occurrences and end up with both spellings in my book.  So, the "Diana" Bennett from the series DVDs is "Dianna" Bennett in my original book in the worldwide marketplace. Hopefully, that won’t be terribly distracting to anyone but me.  After that, I invested in a new computer with better software and was able to make all of the character spelling corrections in the fully corrected versions of my novel available here on my website, including the free download, and in the keepsake inscribed and signed copies available on eBay under my seller ID kandycain1587.

Oh, and about Dr. Peter Wellington vs. Dr. Peter Alcott: One of the character name controversy criticisms that has been addressed in reviews of my book has been about the last name of the character, Dr. Peter, played by Joseph A. Campanella in the "Beauty and the Beast" series. In my story, I chose last names for some of the characters that were not given them in the series episodes. I chose the last name of “Wellington” for Dr. Peter. I have been criticized by some who have stated that I don’t know the series well enough because it has been posted on the IMDb (Internet Movie Database) website that Joseph Campanella played the character “Dr. Peter Alcott” in the BATB series. However, it also states that, “The content of this page was created by users. It has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff.” The fact is that Joseph Campanella’s character, Dr. Peter, appeared in three episodes of the series that were aired in this order, “Ashes Ashes,” “Dead of Winter,” and “The Rest is Silence.” I and several of my readers have gone over all three episodes with a fine-tooth comb, and Dr. Peter’s last name is not mentioned in any of them, not in the beginning nor the ending credits nor in any verbal interaction between the characters in any of the scenes in those episodes. I even studied very carefully the setting of the scene in “The Rest is Silence” in which Catherine is sitting in Dr. Peter’s office to see if the last name “Alcott” was written on a diploma on the wall or on a desk plaque, and it was not there anywhere. It is true, according to Philip Ward in England and another of my readers, Susan Anneveldt in The Netherlands, that the name Dr. Peter “Alcott” appears in at least one other piece of fan-fiction literature. It is my opinion that the author of that work did exactly what I did and chose the last name of “Alcott” just as I chose the last name of “Wellington.” I believe that it is from that source that the last name “Alcott” has been widely distributed, and the assumption was made that it was the last name chosen by the series creators for Dr. Peter. Therefore, I am sticking with my choice of “Wellington” because I don’t want to copy anyone else’s original work of BATB sequel literature.


My book fans from all over the United States including Puerto Rico, Canada, England, Ireland, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Tailand, Australia, and Belgium, some of whom began e-mailing me and cheering me on before I had even completed my book, have asked when my book might be seen on the big screen or even on television.  They also want Ron Perlman to don the extensive make-up, and play the part of Vincent again.  It is my observation that Ron is certainly still vigorous and powerful enough, with the majestic presence required, to fill the role once more. I also know that he is a very talented director.  Perhaps if Ron and the other wonderful actors, who made this series so very memorable, like what I have done with the story and their characters, and if my readers are as pleased with the actual book as they were with the idea of it, Ron Koslow might be persuaded to employ his marvelous creative skills in adapting my book for the screen.  One can only dream!

One of my book fans educated me regarding the various abbreviations that have developed among Beauty and the Beast fans on the Internet.  So, I wish to salute all of the wonderful BATB (Beauty and the Beast) fans out there who have written many sweet SND (She’s not dead!) fan-fiction sequels to this heartwarming series.  They have effectively kept our favorite TV series alive in spite of the entertainment industry’s efforts to smother it.  They have been writing sequel BATB literature for more than 20 years, and I am just a newcomer.  Maybe, if we all stomp our collective feet hard enough, we can convince the industry moguls that we are serious when we say that we want our series restored!  I, myself, would be overjoyed to see the series resurrected with new seasons and episodes.  Based on Ron Perlman’s interviews and on his actual performance of the part of Vincent throughout the series, it seems clear to me that he was truly passionate about the role.  I don’t believe that it was just a paycheck to Ron. To me, Ron Perlman’s portrayal of Vincent was the brilliant performance of a lifetime!  The same can be said of Linda Hamilton’s poignant portrayal of Catherine Chandler.  If it had not been for her moving performance as the woman who dared to love the Beast, I would not have been compelled to fix this tragedy and restore Catherine to Vincent.  Of course, Ron’s and Linda’s characters would not have been as convincing without the supporting roles filled by the other brilliant cast members.  Ron Koslow was a genius in assembling actors whose chemistry with one another onscreen made their performances pure magic!

Personally, I would love to know that all of my readers have thoroughly enjoyed watching every episode of all three seasons of Beauty and the Beast before ever opening the cover of my book.   I promise that you will enjoy my book much more if you have viewed all three seasons of the series, and I also promise that you will never look at the painful third season the same way ever again after reading my story.  Happy watching and reading!  With Love, Laurel

READER REVIEWS FROM THOSE WHO DON'T WANT TO REGISTER WITH LULU (There is also a review from one of my youngest book fans in the middle of the right side-bar, and British screen writer Philip Ward's review of my novel is posted right under the book below these reviews. More reviews are available in the review section by clicking on the free download book link below. I have been overjoyed to hear from readers all over the world. The list of countries represented by my readers is growing, and they now include the United States along with Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, England, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, Australia, and Belgium.): 

Patricia, one of my readers living in Ohio, sent me the following beautiful review on April 2, 2009 after reading one of the printed copies of my books she purchased from Amazon with the alternate character spellings.

I am one of many Beauty and the Beast fans that was heartbroken over the way the series ended 20 years ago.  I recently heard of Laurel Cain Haws' new book, and so I watched the Beauty and the Beast TV series again - then read this lovely book.  It healed my broken heart.  Catherine didn't die.  Ms. Haws' story is charming, addressing unanswered questions from the series, and it brought a whole new enchanting Tunnel World into being.  Her novel was a feast for my heart.  She wrote of love with a gentle sweetness, and there is nothing brash or offensive in her story.  Finally .... once upon a time became happily ever after.
~pat, Ohio

Jan Adams, one of my readers living in England, sent me the following lovely review of Love's Journey to Awakening on December 19, 2008:

Dear Karen, 
     I wasn't sure where to e-mail my review so I've sent it to you:

     I remember watching Beauty and the Beast when it first came out but didn't remember watching the ending or even if there was one!  So I decided to watch all of them in one go.  I can honestly say I had no idea that they had killed Catherine!  I felt so cheated and disappointed, like we the fans didn't matter! 
     So I went on the Internet to see if I was overreacting or if other people felt the same, and I came across Karen Laurel Cain Haws' book Love's Journey to AwakeningThe work that went into that book and the attention to detail is amazing!  A round of applause and a bouquet of flowers to you, Karen!  I couldn't stop reading yet at the same time I didn't want it to come to an end!  You brought all the characters back to life.  All those people that had become my family and you didn't change or meddle with their personalities at all.  Every page I read I kept hoping that it was going to be the page that Catherine wakes up on, but no, you kept me waiting and waiting until the suspense almost killed me!  But it just added to my excitement and enjoyment and I thank you for that!

     This woman really cares about her fans and gives them what they want; a happy ending, how it should have been!!

 10 out of 10 and here's to the next one!


jan :0)xx
 

Gail, one of my readers living in the United States, sent me her unique perspective on Love's Journey to Awakening on February 2, 2009:

Hi Karen,

Love's Journey to Awakening was great.  I loved the book.  I enjoyed the story creating a family for Vincent.  The thing that was redeeming in your book is that you took Diana Bennett and made her more likeable.  The writers of the TV series tried to force her on us the fans to be a replacement for Catherine, and the fans didn't have a chance to mourn the loss of Catherine.  That being said,  if they had taken more of an approach to it as you did, I think the series would have had the potential to last a little longer than it did after Linda Hamilton left the series.   Anyone who is discovering the TV series and comes across your book will be able to enjoy it even if they don't watch the whole series. You did an excellent job explaining the characters in the beginning of the book, although watching the series gives faces to the characters.  Gail

THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR PRAYERS! My darling husband, Arthur, is recovering nicely from having his gall bladder removed. We are hoping that getting rid of that diseased organ will put a stop to all of the chronic nausea he has been so miserable with. We appreciate all of the prayers that have been offered on his behalf. I do now have my computer up and running and have access to my e-mail program again. I began listing my printed copies of Love's Journey to Awakening again on eBay on November 12, 2009. All 3 of the perfected high-quality versions are now available: the 6" X 9" paperback version, the 8 1/2" X 11" large-print paperback version, and the 6" X 9" hardbound version. These are personally inscribed and signed fully corrected keepsake volumes, and they are available under my eBay seller ID kandycain1587. I am hoping that this will give any of you who would like one time to obtain them for Christmas. I have also finished creating bargain-quality printed versions of my book which are now available here on my website. These books will be manufactured using cheaper-quality materials. I won't be able to inscribe and sign them for you, because they will be printed and shipped from the Lulu printing facility closest to where you live, but they will be less expensive. Thank you, my dear readers, for all of your loving support. Love,Laurel
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ATTENTION!  If you have found this webpage, then I need to make you aware that in mid-June of 2008 my novel became the subject of great controversy in the BATB fan-world. That was definitely not my intention, and the furor broke my heart. All I wanted to do was to share a story which had given me great joy to write. As a result of that unfortunate conflict, my original printed books were removed from my website by Lulu while they investigated the complaints lodged by a militant group of other fan-fiction writers. New copies of the three printed original versions, the two paperback sizes as well as the hardbound original versions, are still available in the worldwide marketplace. If you would like an actual book from the original printings, you can find them with almost any Internet search engine. Please know that my wonderful friends and supporters in BATB fandom, who carry with them the true spirit of the tunnel-world, have helped me to solve this problem. In the middle of the right column, you will find an eloquent letter posted by a British screen writer, who became very cross over the actions of those opposed to my book, and I think that you will find his opinion of their behavior interesting. He was truly a knight-in-shining-armor in defending me. His review of Love's Journey to Awakening appears right below the book on this page. I invite you to carefully read all of the information here about my book, and you can now enjoy this free download of the entire novel. Then, you can make an informed decision about whether it is worth investing money in a published copy of my original book, with the alternate character spellings, available in the worldwide marketplace or the completely corrected volumes available here now. The story itself is identical, whether you are reading the original versions or the corrected versions available here. I want to state very emphatically here that the fan-fiction writers that acted this way are not representative of all BATB fan-fiction writers. There are Beauty and the Beast fan-fiction writers around the world that are my dear friends and supporters. It should also be noted that these people genuinely believed that they were doing the right thing.
HAPPY UPDATE!  With the loving support of all of my BATB friends, I have now been able to have all three versions of my highest-quality book produced again here on Lulu, and they are now available to purchase on eBay under my seller ID kandycain1587. All three, the 6" X 9" paperback, the 8 1/2" X 11" large print paperback, and the 6" X 9" hardbound books, are the fully corrected versions with the character spellings chosen by the creators of the series. Lulu's quality is outstanding, and the books are beautiful. If you decide that you enjoy the story enough to want a keepsake volume of it for your library, I will be able to ship it to you from the eBay selling forum personally inscribed and autographed.
You can download Love's Journey to Awakening--Beauty and the Beast--Happily Ever After to your computer from this page.
If you don't have space on your hard drive for it, you can also read the entire book by clicking on the book label link, "Laurel's Love's Journey to Awakening." In the new page, click the "preview" button just under the book cover, and then use the page turning buttons (< >) in the top right corner of the preview page. Lulu has changed the way the preview button works. I would suggest that you grab the top of the preview screen with your mouse and pull it up to the top of your viewing web-page. Then, as soon as you see the book cover loaded, use the (+) & (-) buttons to the left of the page turning buttons to re-size the preview pages to fit your screen. I have set each of the download previews so that you can read the entire book that way without having to download any of them. My novel is a very long book, 500 plus pages, so if you choose to read it that way, when you get tired of reading and want to stop, just write down the page number you want to start with next time. I've been playing with this new preview format, and you can actually just type the page number into the page-turner that you want to go to during your next reading session, and then hit "enter." If you enjoy my book, I would love to see your rating and review of it here. You can access the rating stars and the "write a review" button below the book on the "Laurel's Love's Journey to Awakening" page. Thank you for helping others to decide if this story is what they are looking for as an happy continuation of the series.  With Love, Laurel 
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This sequel to Ron Koslow's beloved 1980s TV series, "Beauty and the Beast," turns a tragedy back into a fairytale. Set in Father's world of tunnels under the streets of New York City, Vincent's "Beauty," Catherine Chandler, thought to be dead, is rescued and restored to Vincent in an epic suspense filled adventure full of poetic romance and dangerous perils. Please be sure to enjoy watching all three seasons of the TV series, “Beauty and the Beast,” now available on DVD, before reading this book. This 5.5" X 8.5" paperback volume of my novel is the fully corrected version with the character spellings chosen by the series creators. The books available at the other online bookstores are my original version with alternate character spellings. This smaller economy version of my book is exclusively available here at my website on Lulu.

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This sequel to Ron Koslow's beloved 1980s TV series, "Beauty and the Beast," turns a tragedy back into a fairytale. Set in Father's world of tunnels under the streets of New York City, Vincent's "Beauty," Catherine Chandler, thought to be dead, is rescued and restored to Vincent in an epic suspense filled adventure full of poetic romance and dangerous perils. Please be sure to enjoy watching all three seasons of the TV series, “Beauty and the Beast,” now available on DVD, before reading this book. This 6" X 9" hardcover volume of my novel is the fully corrected version with the character spellings chosen by the series creators. The books available at the other online bookstores are my original version with alternate character spellings. This book is less expensive using cheaper materials to produce it.

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This sequel to Ron Koslow's beloved 1980s TV series, "Beauty and the Beast," turns a tragedy back into a fairytale. Set in Father's world of tunnels under the streets of New York City, Vincent's "Beauty," Catherine Chandler, thought to be dead, is rescued and restored to Vincent in an epic suspense filled adventure full of poetic romance and dangerous perils. Please be sure to enjoy watching all three seasons of the TV series, “Beauty and the Beast,” now available on DVD, before reading this book. This 8.5" X 11" large-print volume of my novel is the fully corrected version with the character spellings chosen by the series creators. The books available at the other online bookstores are my original version with alternate character spellings. This book is less expensive using cheaper materials to produce it.

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This sequel to Ron Koslow's beloved 1980s TV series, "Beauty and the Beast," turns a tragedy back into a fairytale. Set in Father's world of tunnels under the streets of New York City, Vincent's "Beauty," Catherine Chandler, thought to be dead, is rescued and restored to Vincent in an epic suspense filled adventure full of poetic romance and dangerous perils. Please be sure to enjoy watching all three seasons of the TV series, “Beauty and the Beast,” now available on DVD, before reading this book. This 8.25" X 10.75" hardcover volume of my novel is the fully corrected version with the character spellings chosen by the series creators. The books available at the other online bookstores are my original version with alternate character spellings. This volume of my novel is a new size of hardcover book exclusively available here.

British screen writer Philip Ward sent me the following review of Love's Journey to Awakening after generously spending some of his valuable time reading it:

I really am so pleased that after all the problems caused earlier for your book publishing that you are now doing so well.  It is good that you have also had such a lot of support from your family and friends with your book, particularly during the bad times you endured with the nasty comments and campaign against you by fellow fans of BATB.  So let me start, yes you are probably right in saying that it is more a book for women than men, too much romance and not enough adventure and action, but I enjoyed reading your book and was kept interested in the story and enjoyed the back history that you kept referring to as the story progressed.  I liked the family history you have created for where Vincent came from, with the Tandins living in another underground community with advanced technologies. The introduction of these sci-fi'ish / vampiresque creatures could give you plenty of scope for other offshoot stories from this book.  You said you were concerned about my masculine reaction to your handling of the sexual topics mentioned in your book, well I thought you handled them very well and as I said in an earlier message to you, compared to a lot of books nowadays and to a lot of the fanzines and postings in fandom it was very tame!  As someone who does not normally read books, I thought your story was excellent and I found it very easy to read and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.  Therefore, overall, I give your book 10 out of 10. 

Love's Journey to Awakening editor, Dr. Thayle K. Anderson, English Professor-Emeritus from Murray State University, has the following to say about the author, Laurel Cain Haws:

In a letter dated August 18, 2007, not long after my retirement from the English Department Faculty of Murray State University, Karen Haws, a family friend and long-time fellow member of a small church congregation here in Murray, Kentucky, asked me to edit a novel, her first, which she had just enthusiastically undertaken to write.  Long aware of how bright and how verbally articulate Karen has always been, I consented to help her out in any way I could, and during the last seven months or so, I have had the immense pleasure of proofing Karen’s work, chapter by chapter, of suggesting how she might improve this sentence or paragraph or chapter, and of discussing with her the varied and complex purposes she had in mind as she wrote a carefully conceived, exhaustively developed sequel to Beauty and the Beast, the popular television series which ran for three years during the late 1980s and  early 1990s.

It’s time for a full disclosure: No doubt I was Karen’s one readily available, but by no means her ideal, choice for this work. I served on the English Department faculty at Murray State University for thirty-seven years, but never during that extended stint did I teach creative writing. I have, moreover, had little experience with the romantic fantasy genre, the characteristics of which are most evident both in the TV series and in Karen’s novel. Indeed, the romantic fantasy is simply not my cup of tea, and consequently I passed on the opportunity to view the recently released DVDs of all three years of the series episodes, insisting to myself that while Karen’s novel may supplement and build upon the TV series, it should be able to stand on its own; it should appeal also to readers like myself who are not familiar with its TV precedents.  I am, hence, not a highly qualified judge of this novel’s merits as a romantic fantasy.

I am, however, a pretty experienced judge of writing ability. I taught freshman composition, semester in and semester out, for the first thirty years of my tenure at MSU, and I have read countless  towering stacks of papers written by general education students, English majors, and English graduate students in the myriad courses I have taught over the years. I have also read and taught hundreds of works of fiction—and, consequently, I’m confident that I know good writing when I read it.

And here’s what I can tell you: When it comes to writing, Karen is the real thing. She is highly articulate. She knows the mechanical rules of English well, and seldom has trouble with them. She develops her settings and scenes in exhaustive detail, and she certainly knows how to create and maintain dramatic tension in her plot and in her subplots. Her tone, as a third-person, omniscient narrator, is engaging and consistent. To me, however, her most impressive strength is her ear for dialogue. Crafting highly credible dialogue is the most effective way to create complex, highly believable characters—compellingly real human beings with whom the reader can identify and sympathize—or against whom the reader can respond with ambiguous feelings, with condescending disgust, or with full-bore rage. Thanks to Karen’s marvelous sense of dialogue, not one of her major characters is flat or stereotyped. Not one of her major characters fails to engage the reader—and if the reader is so engaged, the plot tension will take care of itself. Few aspiring writers that I know of have this gift; Karen most certainly does.

Indeed, I believe that Karen’s strong, highly believable characters and her careful attention to detail will pull even those not familiar with the old TV series into her highly imaginative, dramatic, unpredictable story, and while I am no romantic fantasy maven, I feel certain, damned certain, that those fans of the genre who are willing to give Karen’s novel a chance—a good read—will be richly rewarded for the time and effort they have invested. I have never aspired to write fiction, but if I had, in my maiden voyage I would have been gleefully proud to have even approached the quality level of this, Karen’s first effort. Trust me on this: Love’s Journey to Awakening, as a work of popular, romantic-fantasy fiction, richly deserves your serious attention. You won’t be disappointed.