Starting Jennie

This blog begins with an image that inspired me while writing Virginia, a full-length novel I expect to be published late in 2012.  I've flopped about since writing this, trying to inspire myself with a fresh novel idea.
Jennie, a character from A Rose Without Thorns and Everyone Gets Frisky at Weddings, appeals to me.  In those books, she discovers she loves her boss, Carol, and runs away to Manchester to hide.  I wanted to know what happened to her there, but was also timid: bad things happen, and I'm sentimental about my characters, and hate harm coming to them.
I've decided to bite the bullet and write Jennie's story.