Harlequin has bought nine books that I've written for other publishers over the
years and are going to convert them into Ebooks so that they will be available
for my readers.
Some of you loyal reader who started with me in 1980, may already have them as
paperbacks. You need to know that my original pseudonym on each book has been
replaced with my Harlequin pseudonym, Lindsay McKenna, so you don't mistakenly
buy something you already have.
In some cases, book titles have been changed by my editors, who felt they needed
a little modernizing or updating for readers in 2013. What is exciting is these
are my first books I ever wrote coming into the field of romance publishing! So
these books hold my heart as my foundation books for a career that has continued
to expand beyond thirty years--thanks to my readers.
Below are the books and if the title was changed, it is so noted and hopefully
will not confuse you. Harlequin has also given each book a new cover which is
wonderful.
They will be available 9.16.2013 over at
eHarlequin.com (ebooks). You can also get them through
amazon.com and other outlets as well.
I thought it might be fun to put AUTHOR COMMENTS on my very first book I sold.
1.
WHEN TOMORROW
COMES (was:
Hold Fast 'Til Morning (was: Beth Brookes, SCAL (Second
Chance at Love)
AUTHOR COMMENTS:
This was my FIRST book I ever got published! I can't tell you the thrill after
working at my writing for 22 years, to have this book bought by Second Chance at
Love/Berkeley Publishing. To say I was over the moon that it was bought can't
even begin to put into words! And SCAL demanded that I have a pseudonym, so I
chose Beth Brookes. Publishing companies at that time, wanted to "own" your
name so that they would enforce you staying with them to publish. That has
changed a lot since 1980 when I entered the book publishing arena. I ended up
with Beth Brookes for SCAL, Lindsay McKenna for Silhouette/Harlequin, wrote
under my βreal name' of Eileen Nauman for Popular Library/Warner and a couple of
books for Harlequin early in my career.
I had made my hero, Dominic Tobbar, a civil engineer. And my heroine was one as
well. She is an American woman coming down to Argentina to take over a project
that is behind and to get it back on schedule. She has to build a pipeline and
bridge across a river. And of course, in Latin American, women are seen not as
professionals having a career. Keeping in mind I wrote this in 1980 when women
down there really didn't have the opportunities for a career like a man did.
The friction between the hero who is Italian heritage but his family comes from
Argentina, is pretty obvious--he doesn't think any woman could handle an
engineering project. Never mind that Cait Monahan, the heroine, has built
structures, bridges and pipelines all over the world.
It was a fun book to write and was "serious" versus the "fluff and humor" that
was being sold at that time. I've never been a fluff writer...just don't have
it in me this lifetime. I've always written serious, realistic books because I
feel real life is a friction and great challenge in a person's life--whether in
real life or in a story like this.
 UNTAMED DESIRE
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2. UNTAMED DESIRE,
(was: Beth Brookes, SCAL (Berkeley/Second Chance at Love)
* * *
3. HOSTAGE HEART, Eileen
Nauman, Avon
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 HOSTAGE HEART
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 ON WINGS OF PASSION
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4. ON WINGS OF PASSION
(was: Beth Brookes, SCAL (Berkeley/ Second Chance at Love)
* * *
5. TORRID NIGHTS, Beth
Brookes (was: Beth Brookes, SCAL (Berkeley/ Second Chance at Love)
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 TORRID NIGHTS
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 A CHANCE ENCOUNTER
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6. A CHANCE ENCOUNTER
(was: Where Enchantment Lies) (NOTE: title will change and be updated),(was:
Beth Brookes, SCAL (Berkeley/ Second Chance at Love)
* * *
7. BEGINNING WITH YOU
(was: Beginnings), Popular Library/Warner, Eileen Nauman
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 BEGINNING WITH YOU
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 NIGHT
FLIGHT
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8. NIGHT FLIGHT,
Popular Library/Warner, Eileen Nauman
* * *
9. DANGER CLOSE (was:
Valkyrie, Hard Shell Publishing 2000)
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 DANGER
CLOSE
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1 comment posted.
Thanks for the information about the books coming out under your own name now. If you were writing about a woman engineer building dams and pipelines in South America in 1980, you are definitely my kind of lady!
(Clare O'Beara 9:00am October 3, 2013)