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'RED JACK'S DAUGHTER' INSIDER NEWS


This was great fun to write, but as the book went on I became unhappier with it. There was something wrong but I couldn't figure out what it was. Our heroine had been raised as a boy, and acted like one to please her soldier father, who'd always wanted a son. She was charming, the hero was grand.

What was my problem?

I figured it out by Chapter Six. I listened to her. She spoke like a woman. Given her upbringing, it didn't ring true. I went back and took out all her dialogue and rewrote it as though it were spoken by a young man.

Yes. That worked.

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