The unexpected news first. I’m taking a running class! Never in my life did I ever consider running for exercise, but something about missing out on this has been nagging at me. Last year, I made a commitment to undertake a 5K in the fall of 2015. Sounds easy, right? But given the fact that I’ve never run farther than I can throw, this should be astounding. Why would I do it? Because I can. Because the world is full of Neon 5Ks and Color Runs and Obstacle Runs and it’s also full of crazy people who get up at the crack of dawn to put tutus on over their compression shorts and compete in these events and I want to know what they know that I don’t.
Wish me luck. Hopefully I won’t break a hip or anything… EEK!
With regard to writing — I’ve made a discovery! It’s a humbling thing to reread a book you wrote in your writerly infancy. As I move on in my career, many of the books I wrote in the beginning are reaching the end of their original contracts. Choices need to be made: Do I keep them with the same publisher? Do I put them back out under the banner of Maxfield Publishing? or do I re-home them with new publishers?
None of these decisions are easy. I’m not an editor. I’m a writer. I have good instincts for self-editing. Studying craft has made me better at this and yet I’m still only a fledgling writer. Often, I see what I think I wrote on the page and not necessarily what I actually wrote. I’m no graphic artist, I don’t have the time to learn to format, to advertise, to create audiobooks. I don’t really even have the time to manage delegating these to professionals. Or maybe I have the time, and I really don’t want to be a publisher, with all the attendant publishing headaches.
So when it came time to take a look at Notturno and Vigil, and even more important, the unpublished sequel Matins, I had to decide where to put them. Had I really given them their due? Or have I learned a few things since I wrote those books that I can use to make them better?
Enter my agent, Deidre Knight, Samhain Publishing, and my wonderful new editor, Tera Cuskaden. Together, we’ve taken the same books and made some new choices about how we want to present them, including giving them new titles: Notturno, which will be re-released on Feb. 3rd, 2015 is now called Deep Desire. Vigil will be re-released as Deep Deception in June, and Matins is coming out in December, retitled Deep Deliverance.
The stories are the same with changes I felt made them better. The characters you’ve known as Adin and Donte will still love and bicker their way across your heart — at least, I fell in love with them again! Maybe it’s all those endorphins from running? Read them again or meet them for the first time:
Here’s the new cover, the new blurb, and buy links for Deep Deception:
There’s no leverage like seduction…until love takes a bite of his plans.
Deep, Book 1
As the Indiana Jones of historical erotica, there is no document existing—or just rumored to exist—Adin Tredeger can’t unearth. Why he would risk the biggest coup of his career to join the mile-high club is beyond him. But the disarming, dark-eyed man who somehow enters Adin’s locked airplane washroom has him completely nude and coming apart. All without a whimper of protest.
From that moment, Adin and Donte Fedelta engage in an international battle of wit and cunning. The prize—a priceless, 500-year-old journal with illustrations so erotic it could make the Marquis de Sade blush.
Yet Donte’s desire for the journal goes far beyond simple possession. The undead nobleman wrote it. And he’s not above using every trick in his otherworldly arsenal—including seduction—to get it back.
Chemistry draws them together even as fortune tugs them apart. But when a third party joins the chase, they must unite to fight an enemy with a deadly goal—to erase Donte from history.
This book is a rerelease of a previously published book, with substantial rewrites.
Product Warnings
This product contains one cocky college professor, one centuries-old vampire who is out to show him who’s at the top of the food chain, and red wine. Because it goes so well with humble pie.