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Hi again — the inspiration for the first Barney was to set up the mystery of what happened to him. According to ZeeBee (who turned out to be right) he was murdered! The second one was for ZeeBee to have something to cling to when the truth came out of what happened to her beloved Barney 1.

As for being able to tell if an author has faith and full belief in his/her story, your guess is as good as mine. However, I’ve read books that I’ve put down, never to pick up again, after a couple of chapters, and I think you may be right and that could very well be the reason. I can’t identify it, but I know when the book is doing nothing for me. The author’s “belief in the story” could be why!                                                                                               —–GK—–