Preface

When I began writing about Jamie and all of her friends, I had no idea what sort of story I was planning to write, let alone where that story would take me. I began with a simple concept: What if there were someone, somewhere, who could jump between worlds and what if that person could see the memories of their alternates in these other worlds.

What emerged from those two ideas was Jamie as she first sprang to life in what I called The Gateway in the Woods. I changed the title before I published, but the idea remained the same. I changed the title, because I changed the idea from being something external to Jamie, something she had no control over, to something that she would grow to use and control. She needed a little more control in her life.

I did not know what I expected when I published this first chapter, but it wasn't the number of page views I got so quickly. It gave me the desire to continue and add to Jamie's world as quickly as I could.

I have come to the realization, that like most of the work I have done in the past, this story about Jamie has a Beginning, a Middle, and an End. Because of this, I have decided to offer it up as a novel in chapters. The current thought I have is that this will end up being about 35-40 chapters long, which will bring it in around 120k-140k words, or about 260 to 310 pages in printed format. I may make it longer, it may end up being shorter. It will depend on where the story goes.

This will not be the last story about Jamie, but I may take a short break from her and work on some of the other ideas I have in my head. It depends on where I am when I finish. It will also depend on whether you all are tired of Jamie at that point.

Some of you have been here from the beginning, to all of you I say thanks for the support. Some of you are just starting on this journey, to whom I say welcome to a wild ride.