wow! vikki you are really kind - thank you for your encouragement

sorry also for the slowness of the updates - i've been abit poorly but am getting back to things now. there's the next chapter of Harvest of Tears to finish, a barely started project with theresa-sis and i gave in to persuasion from soem ppl and started writing a prequel to 2nd Chance which will be the story of how Alexa became a slave...

the drawing is by Boris Vallejo and you can get it at http://www.aumania.it/fa/vallejo/223.jpg
- i guess it COULD be Alexa, couldn't it???
and it was sent to U/us by a lovely couple in Canada who spotted it on the cover of an album by Bran Van 3000 called "discosis"

pleeeese keep in touch, specially to let me know how i'm doing because all budding authors here need to hear from their readers (the good AND the bad comments)!

hugggggggggggggggs to a fellow Scottish slave

ruthie[Phil]

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