I amazed myself I was very grateful when my friend from Twitter , Linda Lael Miller , who is a bestselling writer put me in touch with her agent, Lina Cruz . Naturally, as Lina is a busy lady, it took time to make a firm contact; at the time, I suggested several projects which may interest Lina, most did. One project I have in mind is the combining of two stories into one. This is the stage when I realised I had thrown a curve-ball. I thought the original story, plus the secod section would come to around 150 pages, that alone got Lina interested; then I checked my files, and I was wrong, way way wrong. I had grossly misjudged my writing ability. Instead of a combined length of 150 pages, the original (shown above) is over 160 pages long, and with the second section, the book could exceed 200 pages with ease. I pointed out, this could lead to a series of stories if there is interest. To compound my error, I told Lina I expected to finish the joining by mid- August , as I thought