I have just posted the final chapters of Cynthia and the High School Years - Part 2.

I look back at the stories in this series and wonder what happened. The early ones had a very good response as far as I am concerned, but as things drew closer and closer to what I felt was the whole idea of the series, the responses dropped to a third of the early ones. Well, I thought, that will be taken care of when everyone sees how sweetly I revealed the Donna/Don situation and the eventual consumation of Don and Cindy's relationship. I thought I had written a very sweet, not overtly sexual chapter, where their genuine love for each other was finally expressed in the act of love. Boy was I wrong. The chapter bombed! Go figure. I have literally shed a few tears over its failure; however, I know what I wanted to happen, and I think I achieved that very nicely, even if the response says otherwise.

To those who have been nice enough to write and say they enjoyed the series, I want to say I am still working on the Volume 2. I might be able to get together enough material to pick up where this story left off. We'll just have to see. I want to start on the sixth novel in the California Saga. It promises to be interesting. I suspect it will be well into 2011 before it is done, if then.

Well, in the words of that old song, "Pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and start all over again."

Portia