Jillian Chantal

She is the best!  She’s always so enthusiastic about my stories.  I know she’s not just talking smack, too.  She is an avid romance reader and I know she’d tell me if I was on the wrong track.  She just finished Surfer Bride last night and thinks it’s great. 

I was a tad afraid that I made the villain too bad and that the reader would wonder what the heck the heroine was thinking, but my Beta reader says I made the gradual exposure of his evilness work. So, a big sigh of relief there.

She also found some boo-boos that I’ve fixed and I’m grateful for her.  I mistakenly called one of my characters by the wrong name and old eagle eyes, Margo, found it.  Thank God ’cause that  is one of my pet peeves when I’m reading a book. One NY Times  best selling writer that I adore does that at least once in every book.  So, I guess I’m in good company,  huh?

Hope to have this one ready to start submitting next week.  Wish me luck!

If you recall, my inspiration for this hero is Mark Strong.  I adore him but he always plays a bad guy.  Cynthia Eden and I were talking about him one day and  I said he was sexy and it was too bad no one had ever written a story with him as the hero.  Her response was, “you do it.”  So I did and I hope someone with an editorial eye likes it as much as my beta reader, Margo Columbus.