Wow! I don't think I've ever had so many comment posts on a story part!
Author's prerogative!
One quick point of clarification: Ray mentioned that I'd said something in one of my posts which was, he said, the same point he'd made in a private email to another author. As I have assured Ray privately, I don't know if I did see the particular email he refers to, but that point was one which occurred to me only as I was making the post; I certainly wasn't repeating it from elsewhere.
And finally... when will Betrayed be posted? Well, I have to apologise to you guys: I'm behind schedule on writing Betrayed, mainly due to having had a very busy few weeks. Some of the story is written, but not enough for me to feel comfortable about posting... yet. But I will start posting as soon as I can, and I hope you'll all still be here and anxious to read it.
Thank you all so much for your support and enthusiasm and comments!
Oh! Another quick answer to Trenna, who asked:
Why did you decide on short, linked stories instead of a many parted longer one? I was just curious as it will make Kerth voting more difficult.
Oh!
Well... It wasn't so much that
I decided on shorter linked stories as that the Muse decided on it.
Seriously, the plot of Summer Dreaming came to me first, and I knew exactly how it would end... then I thought about it and knew that I couldn't possibly leave the story there. So there had to be a sequel. And then I just knew that there needed to be three stories altogether, because the ending of Betrayed came to me as well - for weeks I had just the first page and the final paragraph written.
As for the Kerths, I
never write with the Kerths in mind! So that wouldn't influence my decision.
Thank you all again, everyone!
Wendy
