Author's Little Corner discussion

I have always been an avid reader. I can remember dragging my mother to Crown Books after school once a week in grade school with $5 to buy the newest Babysitters’ Club book or Sweet Valley High. I loved the magic of reading a book and being transported to a new place, getting lost among words and images and finding a better world to exist within. At 13, I stumbled across my first romance novel, and it changed my life. I had no idea books like that existed! Of course, I had to hide my love story addiction from my mother, who asked me only once if the books I bought were those kind of books, to which I diligently answered as if I had no idea what she was talking about.

In high school, I wrote my first novel. Fifteen years later, and I’m up to 26 and still counting. I’ve always been fascinated with Gothic romances and would call my greatest influences the works of the Brontë sisters. Add into that an adoration for “The Phantom of the Opera” and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and for the most part, you have me! In addition to writing novels about vampires, angels, and demons, I write and post Phantom of the Opera stories online and have even had the honor of having them translated into German and Russian for worldwide fans.

The other side of my life is a passion for music, and I’m also an opera singer. I go from writing at 4AM to practicing for my next performances at 7AM and then onward to being a full time wife and mom with a 6 year old and a 3 year old. One would call my life insane, but I just call it “full”.

For more information about my novels and Phantom stories, please check out my websites:

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Michelle Rodriguez


My published books:

Opera Macabre


Opera Macabre


Count Aiden de Lazarus has grown apathetic to the world around him and the monotony of immortal life. Determined to regain his zest for vampiric pursuits, he chooses a mortal girl and bites her with the intent to drain her. Instead, her intoxicating taste and enchanting beauty stirs feelings he has long buried. Scared by such mortal feelings, he gives her to another vampire as payment for a debt. After eight long years, Bianca is still living a cursed life—singing on stage in Alexi's profitable opera and enduring the bites of the undead as part of his undercover auction when the stage lights dim. Doomed to become Alexi’s vampire bride, her future is bleak. Aiden is horrified to find Bianca still alive and Alexi’s prized possession. Her image has continued to haunt him. Now he must find a way to free her from the life he unwittingly condemned her to and prove that he, unlike the vampires she has known, can be a man worth loving.



The Devil's Galley (The Angel and Demon Chronicles Book One)


The Devil's Galley

Captained by one of God’s fallen angels, the Devil’s Galley collects souls lost at sea and brings them to their eternal damnation. Since childhood, Maggie Sloane has been the only one able to see its ghostly image upon the sea, drawn to it as if it is her destiny. Haunted by visions of sin and damnation, one night, she leaps off a cliff and unwittingly ends up saved and a passenger on the ship of the damned on a journey to hell. The fallen angel Rafe is a reaper for Satan. He cannot explain his unacceptable attraction to a mortal girl, rescuing her from treacherous death and damnation with an uncommon hope to save her soul. As they travel to hell and back with the devil after Maggie's pure soul, Rafe must choose between his loyalty to a necessary task and the girl he was never supposed to love. Will his love be the very key to her eternal damnation?


Manifestations of a Phantom's Soul


Manifestations of a Phantom's Soul: A Phantom of the Opera Story Collection

“The Phantom of the Opera” is a story about love, obsession, music, and passion. For the past few years, published author Michelle Rodriguez has been sharing her stories with the Phantom community, exploring the original characters and giving them new adventures and reasons for hope. Take a journey with her through a love story as sensual as it is eternal. “Manifestations of a Phantom’s Soul” is a collection of ten of her most loved stories online combined with two that have never been read before. Whether in the mood for something dark and passionate or something sweet and romantic, you will find a story featuring the disfigured Opera Ghost and his true love and learn that it is more than a face that defines a man.