Dear Readers,
I was reading out of the enormous file, called Helen, from which all the Helen stories have been extracted, and I realized just how much I had stripped out of it, before re-forming the episodes into Helen at Westfield, and so on.
By now, people have read as much as they can stand from those books. A very few determined readers have sprung for the nominal cost for those books; most new readers just download Yraid, which I have to admit has a lot of charm. But some of the incidents and accidents that make the characters in the Helen story three-dimensional have been ripped out. This is partly because some of those stories are sort of irrelevant to the main thrust of the overall plot. But they are also partly because they reveal these characters to be somewhat less high-minded than I wanted them to be, as occupying the world in which Helen, the person, has been placed. So my plan is to write a collection of vignettes, called Helen Out-takes, or something on those lines, and put it up on Smashwords. If I do, I will either make it free, or price it at 99 cents, like most of the other books. Remember: I'm not a professional author, and don't depend on your payment for my livelihood. If you manage to steal copies of these books from your buddies, I really don't mind; except, of course, I would never know the actual number of people who have bought the books (and hopefully read them).
Chronologically, these stories will take place after Helen returns from Hollywood, and go on from there.
For those of my readers who are wondering whether I'm still babysitting the house with all the animals: no; I'm back home, where I live. The people for whom I was house-sitting have been back for close to a month; and I said my fond farewells to the fur-babies, giving them as much loving as they could stand, and left before my friends arrived back. I did not want to deal with any viruses they were bringing back from parts unknown, though I believe they're as careful---or more careful---than almost anybody else I know.
OK, back to work.
Kay
