Challenges Of Re-Issuing SECRET CHILD for Today’s Market
“No one provides hotter emotional fireworks than the fiery Ann Major.” RT Book Reviews
I thought revising SECRET CHILD (Book 8, Texas: Children of Destiny) would be a piece of cake. It was the first “big book” I wrote for Silhouette Books. It placed on several U.S. bestseller lists when first published. It was extremely popular in Japan where it was reprinted several times with great success. It was serialized in a magazine and eventually earned around six figures.
I imagined I would have it digitalized, search for typos, have a cover made, write a description and put it up. Easy. Right?
You guessed it. Back in 1998 when I wrote this book, nobody knew THE RULE that the hero and heroine had to meet ASAP. Preferably on page 1.
My two characters don’t meet until page 70. Editorially, I felt I could make this book more appealing by rewriting the beginning and having them meet by page 10. However, that would have involved several more weeks of work. As I got into the book, I found there were other problems that would take time to address.
I would like to write new things. I need to put out the “new” book in my Lonestar Dynasty series that I am currently finishing.
Life is often a compromise, isn’t it? I did spend several weeks reworking Secret Child, cutting (ten thousand words) and simplifying it as much as I could. But I’m afraid I did not spend two or three additional weeks, rewriting the book from the beginning so that it would follow THE RULE, and maybe I should have.
If only there were more time… Maybe then I could be perfect. But somehow I doubt it.
SECRET CHILD
“Engaging characters, stories that thrill and delight, shivering suspense and captivating romance. Want it all? Read Ann Major.”—Nora Roberts, New York Times Bestselling Author
“From the infant stages of the romance genre Ann Major has been a significant contributor. Her name on the cover instantly identifies the book as a good read.”—Sandra Brown, New York Times Bestselling Author
“Ann Major’s Secret Child sizzles with characters who leap off the page and into your heart…. This one’s hot!” —New York Times Bestselling author Lisa Jackson
When Passion and Fate Intertwine in this gripping romantic mystery suspense novel by USA Today bestselling author ANN MAJOR, will two Lost Souls get a Second Chance at True Love?
When a woman with a tragic past is struck by a runaway cab, she gets a brand-new face. Unfortunately, there is a string attached: a pretend marriage to her dangerous lookalike’s sexy, Texas cowboy husband. Believing her to be his wife, Jack West is dead-set against her no matter how powerful his attraction to her. Or is he?
Wrongfully sent to prison, Jack has vowed in his darkest hour to punish the wife who put him there. But the woman he finds is so transformed, he soon wants something far more dangerous than revenge from this woman claiming to be innocent. Will the truth destroy him, or set him free?
The Texas: Children of Destiny western romance series includes:
Passion’s Child
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Destiny’s Child
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Night Child
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Wilderness Child
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Scandal’s Child
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The Goodbye Child
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Nobody’s Child
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Secret Child
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