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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(c), 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(c); LOVE AND MADNESS(c); AND BUTTERFLY LOVE(c) complete the Insanity volume of the SERIES. AND CRIMSON MARIPOSA(c); CRIMSON AND PINK(c); LUST WHEELS(c); AND YES FOR LOVE(c), book eighteen, finish the Resurrection Volume of the SERIES. And OMEGA, THE END(c), 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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