Ok. I have bored all with my refusal to get into the whole e-book thing on a couple of different occasions. I was feeling pretty smug about the whole thing, too, clinging to my beloved paper-and-ink books with the shiny covers. And then sometime in the last couple of days I started to notice something that rocked the boat a bit – a few series that I follow faithfully are releasing new stories that will be available ONLY in e-format. Huh. That sucks.
Coming up on December 5th is A Taste of Midnight from Lara Adrian‘s Midnight Breeds series.
A shimmering holiday gala lights up an ancient castle in the Scottish Highlands, but beautiful widowed Breedmate Danika MacConn feels alone in the crowd. Even among the friends and festivity of the Darkhaven celebration, she can’t forget her lost love, a fallen warrior of the Order. Her brief return to her mate’s homeland has become treacherous after rejecting the advances of a dangerous Edinburgh crime boss with a taste for blood sport. As Danika seeks to expose the vampire and his dark trade, she discovers an unexpected ally in his forbidding, enigmatic henchman, Brannoc, a man who exudes heat, danger, and dark menace—and seems somehow achingly familiar. Bran has his own reasons for wanting to keep Dani out of his employer’s business . . . and his own secrets he means to keep buried. The last thing he needs is to get tangled up with a woman who tempts the wildest part of his Breed nature—especially when that woman is Danika MacConn, the one woman capable of bringing him to his knees.
Now, for this next one, you have to head over to Samhain Publishing. It will be releasing an Elder Races story from Thea Harrison on December 13th, called True Colors.
Meeting your soulmate? Great. Preventing your possible murder? Even better.
Alice Clark, a Wyr and schoolteacher, has had two friends murdered in as many days, and she’s just found the body of a third. She arrives at the scene only minutes before Gideon Riehl, a wolf Wyr and current detective in the Wyr Division of Violent Crime—and, as Alice oh-so-inconveniently recognizes at first sight, her mate.
But the sudden connection Riehl and Alice feel is complicated when the murders are linked to a serial killer who last struck seven years ago, killing seven people in seven days. They have just one night before the killer strikes again. And every sign points to Alice as the next victim.
Shannon K. Butcher will be releasing an e-book from her Sentinal Wars series early next year called Bound By Vengeance. There is a pretty nifty cover, but no other info available as yet.
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Now, this next one confuses me. Alyssa Day is supposed to be releasing a Warriors of Poseidon story in December – but there is no trace of a link as to where you can download Alejandro’s Sorceress. And there is no info, cover blurb, nada. Just a cover. Strange. And it is due out in a couple of weeks…
Now, that is not to say that I am against the e-books – I’m not. Authors like Kresley Cole, Ilona Andrews and Jeaniene Frost are all going back and re-releasing their novellas in e-format, and I think it is great. I would just like there to be a print option for us paper-lovers. I don’t even mind buying an anthology just for one story – I do it all the time. A while back, I read an interview with Christine Feehan somewhere where she talked about how print runs for romance books are down since people are buying more e-format stories, but that not printing books is forcing people to go in an electronic direction. It seems like a catch 22, and still leaves me wondering if I just might have to take the plunge one day, after all…
