A short note to Venusgoddess, and any others who were offended by the small note on Asian Women.

I did apologise at the end of my chapter about the descriptions within, however I feel, after reading the review left for me that in my haste I was not clear enough with my intent.

Venus, I agree with everything you said. While I'm not Asian, my dearest friend is Japanese and it was her I had in mind when I wrote Mamoru's musings on female Asians. In my descriptions I thought I had made it clear he was referring to ONE Asian female. Yukiko, who he had dealt with and thus made his inferences based on her. It was no way my intent to generalize that ALL Asian women were like Yukiko.

Like I said at the end of the chapter, I was trying to build a picture of Mamoru that painted him as a womanizer. By doing such, his opinions were extreme and in no way my own.

I knew it was going to be a touchy subject and I did think that I had explained myself enough but one can never be too careful I suppose. The outdated stereotype of Asian women is not one I agree with, only one I use to build a character I am writing about. As an actor, my craft relies heavily on motivations and background information, this greatly affects the way I write and perhaps does not come across as clear as I initially thought it would. I hope hope HOPE that that is now clear and I apologise for any offense I have caused anyone with such material.

I will not however, be removing it from my story. I need Mamoru to be like that. I will be reviewing the paragraph in question to see if there is room for perhaps better wording but as it is 10.30pm and I am working at 7am tomorrow I will leave it till then.

Again, Venus, I am deeply sorry you were offended. I hope that this in no way deters you from this from future reading of my stories and I sincerely appreciate the time you put in to warn me of such offenses. Thank you for bringing it to light in an adult and diplomatic way.

Yours in apologies,

Cher

Ps: Watch this space, chapter two on its way 