Jane in Canada

"Jane" is the book, of all the books I have published, that has been downloaded the most.  The biggest reason for its popularity, as far as I can guess, is that it is free.  But I greatly enjoyed writing it, and it is a lot of fun, not in the sense of being funny or exciting, but that there are several interesting characters, including a pair of twins, and a cute fourteen-year-old.

In addition, Jane is a sort of superhero.  Quite by accident, Jane attended a Metal Fetish convention in Baltimore, and acquired a reputation as a masked personality called Scorpia.  It was initially a lot of fun; she always wore a mask, of course, and disguised her voice, and soon she was getting requests for photographs which people wanted to feature in various commercials.  Jane established a website, with the help of her brother Artie, and after a while, she was being interviewed on various TV shows and radio shows.

At any rate, the book Jane starts at the point where Jane has tragically lost two girlfriends on 9/11, and shortly afterwards, and she has a lover who has been diagnosed with HIV.  We watch as the two of them face the problems of AIDS, and the girl dies, surrounded by Jane's family.

Jane is shattered, but her friends help her to carry on, in particular, two young girls who posed for her; Jane was a photographer.  And Jane is introduced to a supermodel, Gillian, who becomes Jane's closest friend.  The rest of the book is about how Jane, Gillian, and Gillian's twin sister, Angela, become Jane's sort of family in New York City, and their various little adventures.  The book ends with Jane getting involved with a new friend, Lisa Love, a reformed glamour model, who has the hots for Jane.  In fact, Lisa Love has the hots for both Jane, and Scorpia, not realizing that they are one and the same.

I just uploaded to Smashwords the further adventures of Jane and Lisa Love.  Entitled Jane on Holiday, the story goes as follows.  It is the middle of a heat wave across the US, and Jane and Lisa sneak off to a vacation cabin in a resort in the hills of British Columbia.  This story is rated at least R, so be warned.  On the other hand, if purple prose is all you're interested in, you might be disappointed.  I'm a sentimental slob, and my stories get moderately mushy.