I first encountered Beauty and the Beast when it appeared on TV in the late 1980's. It was aired on a Thursday evening at 8pm at the same time that I had to be at a Bible Book study, and I used to video record it, unsuccessfully on our very old recorder, but I got the gist of it, even though the sound was bad and the picture quality poor. I remember this distinctly because in time I was torn between going to the book study or watching the programe on the tv rather than watch a bad recording of it the following day.
I enjoyed all of the episodes, there was something so enchanting about it and the fantasy of the love between Catherine and Vincent captured my heart.
In the late 1990's I watched the re-runs and for the first time I saw Season Three and I was heartbroken when the final episode of Though Lovers Be Lost was aired. I could not stand such an ending and was inspired to write my own happier ending, and thus wrote Oblivion 1, 2 & 3 mainly for my own pleasure, until I felt satisfied that I had given Vincent and Catherine the life they so desperately needed and deserved.
Having written Oblivion, I thought I would share it and so advertised it for sale at UK's Gwen Lord's Helper's Network Beauty and the Beast Fan Club quarterly magazine. Many people purchased Oblivion and every single one of them wrote to me saying what pleasure it gave them and asking if I would write more stories like it. They loved my imagination.
I have been writing stories since I was seven years old, and Beauty and the Beast captured my imagination and my heartstrings to the degree that I just could not stop writing stories with my own happy endings to Vincent and Catherine's love story and I quickly wrote 107 stories, both long and short and printed the long ones into novellas, by hiring a photocopying machine and producing novellas and fan fiction from home. I enjoyed doing this, and I loved the letters of appreciation. The more letters I recieved the more stories I would write, and very quickly I was given the title of the most prolific British Writer in BatB fandom.

There were many good writers of BatB fanfiction, and some would stop writing and I would think 'how could they? They're so good. How could they just stop writing like that?' I didn't think I would ever stop writing and I haven't, but it is nothing like it used to be. I believe there is a time for everything and when that time comes with whatever pursuit one's heart is into at that time, one takes to it with great passion and enthusiasm, but sadly there comes a time when one reaches burnout and that is what happened to me. I believe I just went as far as I could, and covered so many aspects of life surrounding Catherine and Vincent and the tunnel world that I could create no more scenarios that seemed authentic enough to be believed.

I know many of the readers of my stories would like to see me write some new material and I thank you for your letters of appreciation and encouragement. I cannot promise that I will. I still love batb but for my whole life I've dreamed of being a published author and only in 2023 does it look like that dream might actually come true. Thus, I am concentrating on writing non batb fiction and hope that the thousands of fans I have accumulated through batb will continue to support me and enjoy my new fiction stories that will be available to buy on Kindle and in hard cover and paperback books at Amazon.
Thank you.

Sincerely, Wendy De-Veryard