hello all. :) now, you are probably all wondering why I am here instead of a chapter to a story of mine. well, tough luck. you'll get one later, i'm here for now. lol. there are many things which i wish to convey and rather than repeat and recite them to every email that enters my mailbox, i figured why not address you all at the same time in one easy step? here goes. first off, in light of the current news concerning plagiarism, i have received many messages asking if i, too, regurgitate already published books and pass them off as my own. although these questions are totally off base considering i loathe anything to do with the crime, it is somewhat flattering. so thank you, but no, i do not copy ANYONE'S work. to each his own and give credit where credit is due. So give it all to me, peeps! :) heeehee, j/k. a bit of narcissism there. anyhooo, secondly, I have received a ton of responses to the completion of AOYU. i am glad so many of you liked it! when i started with AOYU i had no idea my love of writing and your love of mine would escalate. so thank you, dear readers. i appreciate the notes of praise you have sent me. in addition to the lovely notes, there have been appeals, suggestions, and outright demands for a sequel. well, since i am nothing without my readers, why not try and please them? you win, you win. a one part (a long one though) sequel to AOYU will come out...whenever. i have already started it tho i'm sketchy as to where it will lead. but our married serena and darien will have some laughs and tears on the way, of that you can be sure. and last, but not least, i have decided to start a new genre in writing. when i say new, i mean new for me. i'm not gonna go and invent a new category for writing. :) while i love romance, i find that new ideas for plots with something more are plaguing me. woe is me. lol. fear not! broken and first comes will be finished. each with a healthy dose of romance and a certain hot guy that drives me crazy even when I'm the one writing about him. :) but after that, i'm going to head out to a new horizon with romance on the side and a mystery/thriller as the lead. serena and darien will still be my leads, sigh, but they will be doing something a bit more daring and dangerous than necking in a movie theater. :) thanks for reading, if you have made it this far w/o croaking of boredom. drop me a line to tell me what u think. about the sequel(suggestions are more than welcome), about my new genre, about ANYTHING. i'm lonely. and desperate if you haven't noticed..... Karisma