Emmonon, Jaslo: - Hello everyone! My name is Jaslo Emmonon and I am a debut author. I love traveling, fishing, and reading. My works probably contain too many references to my own travels. I started my work, Echoes of Redemption, when the U.S. Marines invited me to attend a leadership training in Parris Island, South Carolina. The story began to percolate from there. Like everyone during the pandemic, I was bored out of my mind, until the day I saw a book of free writing prompts on the bargain table at Barnes and Noble. One particular prompt read, "A piano player in a piano bar meets a woman with an unusual request." I bought the book, went home and got out a legal pad. Ten long-hand pages later, I finished chapter one. I posted it on Scribophile and it got destroyed. Talk about deflating! But my critics were right. I started reading more and within the year, I had worked my way through Stacy Finz's Nugget Romance series, Rebecca Zanettti's Deep Op Series and Marie Force's Fatal series. As I read, I took notes on scenes, dialogue, etc and thought, hmm, would this work in my book? I want to thank a lot of authors, who I picked up along the way. You have no idea the inspiration, the hope and the belief you gave me. I love great stories. I was not a reader of romance, feeling like everyone else would be poorly written dribble. Until I read my first. Now, besides mysteries and thrillers, I've filled my Kindle and my public library Libby APwith romance novels.