Isabel Vandervelde:  

I am an professional writer and artist, and own my own studio--Isabel's Art Studio,inc. and with it, Art Studio Press, where I have published history books of local (SC) interest, family genealogy, a collection of short stories, and a string of novels and novella collections. I roleplay as MalfoyGrandma on YouTube, playing the mother of Lucius Malfoy, the Mistress of Malfoy Castle, an avid video maker. I often use my poetry in videos featuring Jason Isaacs who plays Lucius Malfoy and Alan Rickman who plays Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films. If you do not know who they are, ask your grandchildren, idiots! Here in Aiken, SC now in 2012, I am 81 years old and wheelchair bound. I was ill for six months and finally came home to find my wonderful husband dying of lung cancer. He passed away about two weeks after I came home. Now, I live in my old house in the downtown of this little city. I study history a lot, and have been publishing my books on create.space.com where I hope you will all look for them, and buy them too, just to see how I keep busy. I am noted here as the local historican and genealogy researcher, having written three history books. One is the history of the founding of Aiken county, back in 1872, right after the Civil War. Founders were all black men in the new legislature. I have also become noted here as the expert in all matters about George Galphin, leading Indian Trader for the British government. He had seven women as wives and lovers, and also nine known and acknowledged children, some part Indian,...Expand for more