My goal is to finish the first draft this weekend. I’m so very close, I hope nothing crops up to stop me. My real goal is to have it ready to go if I get a request for it from the Silken Sands Conference on Pensacola Beach in mid March.
This one is along the lines of the first novel I started way back in 1998. I had a major computer crash back then – with real sound effects- whirring, growling and finally a huge roar and death. It was an agonizing thing to witness- the death of a laptop- my first experience with such a thing. Anyway, I lost eight chapters of the manuscript I was writing at the time. Couldn’t retrieve it. Tried to re-create it but I was so upset, I couldn’t think. Demoralized me to the point that I didn’t write for a very long time.
When I started back, I kept myself to short stories because I was afraid to invest all that time again. I finally picked my self up and have written three full manuscripts. This fourth one started out one way and then made the turn to a romantic suspense. The South American sojourn of my characters is reminiscent of the one I wrote way back in the day! So, altogether, I am pretty happy with this one. I think I am coming full circle. And to celebrate, that full circle trip that took over a decade, here is a circle: Specifically, Columbus Circle. My heroine is back in her beloved Manhattan.
Columbus Circle, NYC
Jillian Chantal 
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