Guest post by Shelley Blanton-Stroud for Mystery Fanfare

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

I’m sorry.

You’re right. My protagonist, Jane Benjamin, really is a difficult girl.

She behaves badly. She steals. She lies. She acts impetuously. She avoids doing what she “ought” to do. She’s cranky. She drinks too much. Lately she’s been sleeping around. She gets other people in trouble. She’s really, annoyingly, ambitious.

She also cares deeply about vulnerable people and takes risks to protect them.

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