NOVEL DEBUT: Costa Mesa author Jo-Ann Mapson,...

NOVEL DEBUT: Costa Mesa author Jo-Ann Mapson, whose first novel, “Hank & Chloe,” a contemporary Western romance, is out on bookshelves now (E1), has gotten her first magazine baptism. . . . Her novel is in this month’s Cosmopolitan, but the entire 100,000-word plot has been condensed to magazine proportions. “You miss all the depth and the layers because you don’t meet all the supporting cast of characters,” Mapson says. . . . Not that she’s complaining. “They’ve got a circulation of a couple of million, so that can’t hurt.”