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While writing, I place my mind into the story, or saga, as I did in the SECRET BUTTERFLY SERIES(TM), and I let writing become part of my life. I felt compelled to move my three-volume saga (Passion; Insanity; Resurrection) forward; advance it to its conclusion. But, where I might have concluded first eleven SERIES books after LOVE AND LOVERS©, the eleventh book of the romantic, erotically filled Passion volume, I thought that would be disloyal to our characters' souls and their butterflies' spirits. I decided I needed to keep our precious characters alive, as they continued living through their tempest tossed Insanity Volume. Finally, I needed to reincarnate them; give them new hopes and lives. And, I did. MURDER PROPERLY DONE©; LOVE AND MADNESS©; AND BUTTERFLY LOVE© complete the Insanity volume of the SERIES. AND CRIMSON MARIPOSA©; CRIMSON AND PINK©; LUST WHEELS©; AND YES FOR LOVE©, book eighteen, finish the Resurrection Volume of the SERIES. And OMEGA, THE END©, bookends it. The three volumes complete my grand, secular antidote to religion as lived by the spiritual soul of heroine Marty. Now, I will step away from SERIES and write an entirely different story. I will next write about a lonely little girl and her feral cat friend. But my Series characters are still with me. They've taken up residence in my mind. I may revisit them. I don't know. But for now, I have done what I could for them. I've brought them to life for my readers and I have nurtured them. Now, I believe I must trust them to find their own ways with my readers. Writing! This compulsion to write has become my addiction; like smoking, drinking, gambling, and nymphomania are for others. But it is an addiction I enjoy. I do not wish to shake it.
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