Hi everyone,

This is not another chapter of Saving Stephanie this is a personal request from me to all my readers. First of all I want you to know that I have not given up on this story. Last year when I went on vacation a very traumatic event occurred. My daughter and I totaled our vehicle. We were in a roll over and the car rolled twice down the side of the road going 80 mph. I was not speeding that was the speed limit. But the back tire blew and the car went out of control.

As an adult I am not a really religious person. I was raised in a very strict religion but I do not follow it as an adult. But I can say nothing but that the Angels, the spirits, or God was with us because our car rolled over twice; was completely totaled on every side and we barely came away with one bruise and a few scrapes. When the police got there we were walking around. Other people had gotten there; our windshield had gotten busted out and they helped us get out of the car because you couldn't get out either door as it was on its side. We were both trapped, hanging in our seat belts and a nice strong guy climbed into our busted out windshield to help us get loose.

When the police saw the wreck, down at the bottom of the hill; they were just freaking out. They wanted to call an ambulance to have us checked out. They made us sit down for 15 minutes even though we'd already been up walking around for the 20 minutes it took for police to get there. They were certain that we had some kind of serious injuries because they had never seen anybody walk away from a car that was so totally demolished with no injuries. But there is no other way to say it: WE WERE BLESSED and we were protected and we were saved.

Needless to say, our vacation was cut short. We did get to our family reunion and got to see my grandmother one last time for her 90th birthday celebration with the family. She passed away last July one month after we all got to see her. But the whole event was very traumatizing to me and I am going to be so honest with you all I am not the most emotionally stable person. I take medications every day to help regulate myself and I became so depressed I stopped taking my medications. Which only severely compounded the problem. I got so upset about my story I almost took it down and deleted everything but I know how upset I've been over other authors that have removed their works that I couldn't do that.

For several months I was so depressed I couldn't even read any fanfiction. But time went on and Janet Evanovich's 25th book came out. And I got it and read it. I actually re-read all 24 books and then reread the 25th book several more times. I have to say I like the 25th book better than some of the more recent books. You may or may not agree I don't know how much longer she can continue the series but I felt that the 25th book wasn't awful, it felt like an improvement.

Eventually that got me back into trying to write a little bit and at this point I have written two more chapters to Saving Stephanie but I've lost my Beta. I was to be honest, at this point Saving Stephanie is on the back burner. I'm not giving up on it I just can't follow where the story has taken me and maybe with some help and encouragement from a beta I could move it along but first another project has caught me. I've started writing a new Stephanie-Ranger story and I have written 29ish chapters of it. I've written the beginning most of the middle and the end and I have five or six or ten chapters that are middle in between chapters that still need to be written but the bulk of the story is complete. I am posting this today as I am on vacation again for another week and a half but I am looking for a new beta. I have looked through all the beta's on JE's fanfiction and no one has posted a new beta profile in the last 3 years and everyone I have contacted has not responded. I can't find any active beta's in the Stephanie Plum world.

I need someone that is very familiar with the Stephanie Plum world because I want characters that are true to the books and I want someone to be able to give me feedback on their lines and their actions that stays somewhat true to Cannon. I need someone that can do more than just check spelling and errors I need someone that can give me real feedback on my lines and the way I've written things and the way the characters interact and give me real feedback on the story and maybe even add lines or add thoughts that they feel need to be added. I really appreciate a lot of feedback on my stories as I'm writing them. I also need someone that is a good cheerleader. That is supportive and encouraging. I don't necessarily need a quick turn around. I try to give you time to really process each chapter.

I am really excited about this new story. It has things in it that has never happened before in any story on fanfiction and I think it will be well received. It is very creative to say the least.

So if you are someone who would be interested in betaing a new story with me and helping me finish Saving Stephanie please PM me. I will be able to check my PMS for the next week before I'm back on the road again. If you know someone else or someone else has been a beta for you send me their name and their fanfiction name so I can try to contact them. Writing is one of the best things for my mental health and my fighting depression. It really makes me happy in a way that nothing else in my life does. So I am very anxious to get back to it and to start posting a new story. Please be patient with me I want to finish all the chapters before I start posting the new story so it'll probably be two or three months before I start posting. But once I start posting I'll be able to post more often and I'll have the whole story written; maybe not beta'ed and edited; but written.

I really appreciate all the PM's and messages I've gotten over the last year from different supportive individuals encouraging me, it really means a lot to have your support. And now I need your support more than ever to help find a good beta to continue working on my stories.

Thank you all for all of your help and support;

Jennifer

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