charlie_cochrane: (Lessons in love 2)
charlie_cochrane ([personal profile] charlie_cochrane) wrote2009-06-09 04:06 pm
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Cambridge Fellows relaunch

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.

[identity profile] jess-faraday.livejournal.com 2009-06-09 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] charliecochrane.livejournal.com 2009-06-10 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
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.