Someone asked me, “In all the books you’ve read, who is your favorite heroine?”

The answer was easy. I said, “LoveJoy KickStart.”

“Who?” they asked, surprised.

When we started, I did not know that I would become so close to the FarWay girl.

I knew that this novel, this netnovel, would take on its written form within the limitless boundaries of the worldwide web. It would truly be, from the inception of its first expression to its ending, a webwork. The book would grow, take shape, find words and be seen on, and be a part of, what we call the InterNet. It could only find itself and discover its true life here, in this age, in this medium, because it is here that it, what it is and was, could be discovered and constructed. I might say, and I believe I am correct in saying this, the story was excavated and reconstructed within the virtual realities of the worldwide web.

This is, and may be seen by some as, a strange, different, and even a foreign concept.

LoveJoy is none of those. She is, to all, a familiar, caring and often amazing young lady.

“Who?” they ask, in wonder.

“The fair huntress of the FarWay heights,” I answer. “The white lady of the Battle Across the Reclaimed Lands, the pretty young girl who may lose her life that others may live, the girl whose life I hold so dear.”

“Where do I find her?” they ask, their interest piqueing, leaning closer to me.

“Why, right here,” I answer. “I saw her here – only a segment ago.”

“Segment?”

“Just start reading. You’ll find her.”

“LoveJoy?”

“That’s right. She is my favorite.”

“Anywhere?”

“Yes, read and see for yourself.”

I did,

Grandpa Jim