But What’s at Stake?

But What’s at Stake?

I’d hit about 60,000 words in the WIP, my 8th Blackthorne, Inc. book when I realized I was floundering. I’d set my heroine up in a Blackthorne safe house that was so safe nothing could possibly get to her. After a couple of days of getting nowhere, I figured it was time to take my own advice.

Last year, I volunteered to judge a contest for unpublished or previously published but not under contract authors. Submissions were the first twenty pages of the manuscript. The gen...