Cambridge Fellows relaunch

[charlie_cochrane]

Lessons in Love has been re-edited, slightly changed and - I believe - improved. It relaunches on August 14, 2009

New tagline: He didn’t think he had a heart. Until he lost it.

Reworked blurb: Jonty Stewart is handsome and outgoing, with blood as blue as his eyes. When he takes up a teaching post at the college where he studied, his dynamic style acts as an agent for change within the archaic institution. He also has a catalytic effect on Orlando Coppersmith.

Orlando is a brilliant, introverted mathematician with very little experience of life outside the university walls. He strikes up an alliance with Jonty and soon finds himself heart-deep in feelings he’s never experienced. Before long their friendship blossoms into more than either man had hoped.

Then a student is murdered within St. Bride’s. Then another…and another. All the victims have one thing in common: a penchant for men. Asked by the police to serve as their eyes and ears within the college, Jonty and Orlando risk exposing a love affair that could make them the killer’s next target.

Comments

[jess-faraday.livejournal.com]

What sort of changes? Content added? Important events changed? I'm asking, both as a reader, and as a writer interested in the publishing industry.

Congratulations on the re-release. Wishing you continued success with this wonderful series.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Sorry for late reply - got horribly distracted by Inspector Alleyn mystery on TV last evening (Patrick Malahide at his best) and all productive work for day ground to a halt.

Thanks for the congrats. To answer your question, most of the changes are 'tidying up' and the majority of those come from me. My editor's* input has been to get me to clarify some plot points and increase the tension a bit here and there. No change to plot or characters, no excision of planarian worms or other esoteric references. 'English' spellings back in!

*She's the editor who worked with me on 'Discovery' so I feel very comfortable with any changes she suggests.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yay!

The only quibble I have is WHY on earth did they change the layout on Lessons in Discovery? It looks odd next to the others - can you get them to change it?

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I think all the covers will get rejigged a bit so we'll have a consistent look throughout the series.

[cassandra-gold.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

On a related note, I have Lessons in Discovery waiting for me on the ereader but I'm afraid to start reading it.

I know once I get started I won't be able to put it down, and I have so much to do. It's just sitting there, tempting me....Argh!

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I know the problem - I have to hide books from myself (there's two in a box for my summer holiday which i daren't even flick through, just in case...)

[markprobst.livejournal.com]

I thought Lessons in Love was fine as it was. Did they mess around with the heat level any? Are they going to continue with the same Linden Bay cover or is Samhain going to create yet another new cover?

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

See answer to first comment above to 'set scene'. :)

There was no change to the heat level (actually, my editor got me to take out a love scene or two from book 4 to aid dramatic tension!) My gut feeling is the covers will stay much as they are, just changed to be in the Samhain style.