A New Story in the Works!

You might have forgotten by now, but I have been promising, for more than a year, to finish Helen On the Run: The Lost Years, but have failed to deliver.  It is a great story, and I want to end it well, though at this point a quick summary of what takes place might be all I can manage...

However.

A major story element in the entire Helen saga has not even been touched upon, either in this Blog, or at Smashwords.  It is almost the only real story, with a plot and everything, in the story of Helen, except for, well ... actually there are quite a few stories, such as Helen and the Flowershop Girl, which is a very short story, which is such an unconnected episode that I could easily excise it from the rest of Helen.  Helen and Lalitha is definitely a story, and so will Helen on The Run be.  But this one is important, because it really casts a long shadow on Helen's life, as well as affecting Helen's relationships rather strongly.  In fact, this story and its implications might well be considered to be the central plot of the entire series (thinking of the Helen story as a series, which it isn't yet.)

Temporary Cover

I'm going to call this huge story (presently at around 140,000 words) Helen and Sharon, which ironically refers to only one person:  Sharon is a fictitious character whom Helen masquerades as, in order to do some crazy stuff.  (The stuff is not as crazy as some of you might wish for; there is always an overlay of seriousness in these stories, for which I apologize, and to which I surely owe the limited popularity of the Helen stories!  And also the significant paucity of cats, which must surely disappoint cat lovers.)

Sharon is principally about a movie, which stars a redheaded warrior girl, Merit, and I would dearly love to have Merit on the cover of the book, and I'm tempted to actually create the cover by myself.  I would love to get myself one of these Waco tablets, and see if my minute artistic skills are up to the challenge of creating a storybook cover; who knows?  The smaller image in the cover illustration is the Princess, played by Sita, the younger sister of Lalitha, whom you might remember from Helen and Lalitha.  The central figure is from Wikipedia, which in turn credits the image to Jean-Pol GRANDMONT.  Either Mr. Grandmont created the marble statue and then 'distressed' it, or he took the photograph.