28 April 2008

Dear me, it has been a terribly long time since I updated this old "what's new" page! If anyone has been wandering through here in the last 6 years and thought to find pertinent info, well -- y'all must have thought I was dead! However, I am very much alive, still writing and knitting and singing like a madwoman, and updating this website semi-regularly. I merely forgot about the existence of this particular page. Truly a "duh" moment!

I have decided to try an experiment here, and am offering a serialized version of a story-in-progress for your reading pleasure.

It started out as a short story, but as I have worked on it over the last few years, the characters made it clear that this should be a novel instead. Since I am up to well over two-hundred pages now, I'm inclined to agree!

I don't know what the future of this story will be, as far as publishing in book form goes. I'm well aware there will need to be some tightening and editing done before I can consider that.

What I have here is a well-honed first draft. This is not as dreadful a prospect as one might think, because I'm very fussy about what I post on this site. I don't want to take a chance on anyone reading me at less than my best and thinking, "Ugh!" My aim is to see if there's any outside interest in this project, but since there's a lot of stuff on the internet and people have busy lives, I realize I may not get much input. C'est la vie.

Even if my readers are all anonymous, ultimately I hope someone is enjoying it. It's nice to know one way or another, but I'm not the same gal who came online eleven years ago and checked my computer every single live-long day for feedback. If you like it and feel inclined to take the time to say something about it, great! If you like it well enough to consider buying one of my published books, that's great, too! I'll even be happy to dialogue a bit with you if you will sign my guestbook and leave an e-mail link. But the most important thing is that you enjoy what you read, and take away some lesson from it that you can implement somehow, in a positive way, in your own life journeys. Most of my work does seem to be about people working through their struggles, and overcoming obstacles, and hopefully coming out stronger and wiser on the other side when all's said and done. Seems like that's what life is all about anyway, right?

So, here's what I hope will be a small, steady light in the darkness.

Thank you for reading.

C.P. Warner, a.k.a Jehan St. Marc, a.k.a. Mad Angel

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