VIRTUALLY HERScame out Oct. 2009. Get it atSAMHAIN Publishing. VIRTUALLY ONE coming soon. VIRTUALLY HERSOUT IN PRINT AUG 2010.
I've also made available at AmazonBIG BAD WOLFa COS Commando book, an earlier manuscript about Killian Nicholas Langley. You can sample the first five chapters right here. EBOOK now available for KINDLE, NOOK, and at SMASHWORDS for $4.99.
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I gave a copy of The Protector a girlfriend. As she read, she'd make comments or questions. I'd warned her that I've never read the published version, the one the editor cut 60 pgs out w/out my final looksee (just couldn't do it). Anyway, one of her questions was: "What's in Vivi's note that she gave Jazz?" I'd told her that it should be in the story but I couldn't, without comparison with my original ms, tell her off the top of my head.
By the time she finished the book, her one main question was still about this note; it didn't matter it wasn't an important message, just that she felt she should know what was in it! So tonight, while doing my final FINAL edits for the re-issue (titled just PROTECTOR), where I'm comparing line-by-line the published book with my own original manuscript, I found the answer. My editor had cut out two lines referring to this note. Again, yeah, the note wasn't important to the plot but in the published version, Jazz never mentioned it again after Vivi slipped it to him. Drove my friend crazy :P.
There are other missing plot elements like this in The Protector that I'm re-adding back into the story. One of these is Stefan's real identity. I haven't reached that part yet.
Protector sure reads more cohesively than The Protector!
During chat last night, a few readers expressed surprise that the song referred to at the end of The Protector, when Jazz sang to Vivi during their engagement, was the Beatles' "In My Life." A few even told me they never listened to the Beatles, so the references I made in that last scene flew over their heads.
Well, I couldn't actually quote the song because I didn't have the $$$ to pay Mr. Michael Jackson ;-). So that's why I wrote it the way I did. But for those who had NEVER heard the song, here is a cover played by the great Dave Matthews. The slowed-down guitar version is the way I imagined Jazz sang the song because you know, they were celebrating his engagement while at the same time thinking about the possible death of his best friend, Hawk, who had gone missing while under assignment in Macedonia.
Hope this helps to make that final scene more poignant to y'all.
Also, this is one of my favorite Beatles songs. The melody itself always tugs at my emotions.
"I want you by my side, not like some illusion up ahead all the time. I want to hear you breathe hard, so I know this is real."--Rick Harden in FACING FEAR
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