liAbTg Thank you ever so for you article.Much thanks again. Will read on...

In October of 1991 my wife and I came on a visit to Chilliwack to see if a job that I was offered was going to be mullauty suitable.  We arrived early, drove out from Vancouver, and spent a lovely fall day driving around the area.  That night we went to a movie at the Paramount, and unlike many others, I can't remember the first movie I saw in that grand old lady.  What has stayed with me to this day was the feel, ambiance and aesthetic of that lovely theater.  And, as visitors to this community at the time, that we chose to spend our evening in downtown Chilliwack.  What would bring a visitor there today?We moved here the following spring, and the Paramount has been where our three born and raised Chilliwack children have come to enjoy not only so many great movies of their childhood, but the movie-going experience.  What I believe is as important as the saving of a landmark building is the preservation of a family and community touch-stone for so many.

A very good story and truly believable when one considers the time frame of history indicated when men got to play the female parts. Often times I wish that were still true today.
The Importance of Being Juliette is the first of your stories I have read and I look forward to reading some more. I wish that these were available as either paper back books or as hard cover so that they can be easily read while traveling os relaxing.
Please keep up the good work. Perhaps you might even consider writing a story such as this with more of the current attitudes and fashions as a backround. I am sure it will be good.
Thanks, Lisa

well done ,,,,,,just read your storie and found it quite enjoyable
and fun   ,,,,, could have done without the sex  stuff ,,,,,and I
will look forward to more exelent work ....thank you  rone

There are you say some loopholes in the plots of both stories but not so great that they require rewritten. I had tried to add a measure of believability into the stories and was disappointed to read that you didnt find them so to be. As for punctuation. That was never my strong point but if you had to edit the stories I have had to edit then you wouldnt really complain about a few missing commas.

It is certainly the first piece of constructive criticism I have had on this story and the Inheritance so I am grateful that.

This author’s work is, at times, fascinating and engrossing.  The two stories I have read (“The Inheritance” and the Julliette series) both began with great promise, but as I read on I was, well…disappointed, especially with the Julliette stories.  First, the positive: the author has the ability to hold one’s interest; there was never the temptation to quit reading altogether.  The predicament’s Julian and Lewis found themselves in were captivating, and the overall plots were titillating if not altogether believable.  One always wanted to read on to experience what was next, but…what could have been a great read was marred by inconsistencies and very sloppy editing.  

I certainly would not expect great literature on a site such as this, but I often felt I was reading a first draft, slapped out in haste before breakfast.  Fractured syntax, poor grammar, misspelled words, incomplete sentences, laughably bad punctuation (are commas being rationed?) were the norm, especially in the Julliette stories.  Based on the non-American spelling, I assume the author is British, and most probably a Scot.  Previously, I had always assumed the Brits to be superior to us poor colonials in the English department; now, I am not so sure.  

But more troubling than the English deficiencies were the muddled, inconsistent, often unbelievable story lines.  One minute the poor boy was declaring his undying love for some attractive girl, the next minute running off to marry some man: Louise loved Helen and Rosemary, but for some unexplained reason married the doctor; Julliette loved Leila, yet inexplicably married the highly undesirable middle-aged Scotsman, Gordon.  (What happened to Julian’s concern for his parents and their disgrace from their son marrying a man?   Why did Leila—after Sir Iain  promised to discredit the Scotsman—suddenly acquiesce to Gordon bedding Julliette?)  Julliette, after being kidnapped, was incredibly incurious as to how Gordon almost instantly located her place of detention in all of London, and incurious how the police could—out of all the people in London—immediately detect that the man and woman fleeing Alex’s house were Gordon and Julliette.  Why did the headmistress of St. Denis accept into her exclusive school with open arms three undocumented, unmatriculated, freeloading girls who appeared out of nowhere and stayed on for months?  How was it that no one in St. Denis asked about or remarked upon the fact that two supposedly unrelated girls, Julliette Smythe and (her sister) June Smythe, looked so much alike?  I could go on, but I suspect you get the point.

Nevertheless, the author comes up with imaginative plots.  If she can tighten up her writing, she has the potential to spin some good yarns well worth reading.