“Scout Patterson had been running away from home for twenty years.”
My first book, Scent of the Roses, was first released twenty years ago this month. Not exactly the book-birthday-to-end-all-book-birthdays, but still pretty, stinking cool.
The entire Oberon series has been languishing on my hard drive for the past several years, ever since my publisher and I parted ways (for the second and last time) and I got my rights back to the books. At first, I thought I'd update the books—but SO MUCH HAS CHANGED in the past twenty years. Not only would the task have been hopelessly daunting (not to mention time-consuming) but I just didn’t feel like it would hit the same or land correctly no matter what I did.
I also felt like I was being somewhat disloyal to my small band of fans who had loved the books as-is.
So, I decided to pivot. I'll be re-releasing the series (starting next month) in a new annotated edition.
I talk about what scenes are my favorite (or—thinking of books 3, 7 and 8—my least favorite), or scenes that I particularly remember writing. I've added some fun facts that (hopefully) readers will enjoy. There will be a playlist. Basically, all my thoughts on what it was like to write this/these book(s).
Scent of the Roses is available for pre-order now. It’s due to release on September 25th. With luck, and barring any more of life's little surprises, A Sight to Dream Of, and Sound of a Voice That is Still will follow in October and November, respectively.
But the entire series is up for preview on my website now (http://www.OberonCalifornia.US) less the very cool covers I’ve made for the three digital omnibuses that will follow.
There will be print books, too, but these books are BIG. So, for the print versions, I'll be creating a separate document for the annotations.
But, in any case, what I really came here to say is that, regardless of whether you’ve read the series previously or not, I hope you’ll take a chance on the Oberon gang when they return.
To quote Sir Paul McCartney, these past twenty years have been a long and winding road—for me, and for Scout.
Scent of the Roses is available for pre-order now. It’s due to release on September 25th. With luck, and barring any more of life's little surprises, A Sight to Dream Of, and Sound of a Voice That is Still will follow in October and November, respectively.
But the entire series is up for preview on my website now (http://www.OberonCalifornia.US) less the very cool covers I’ve made for the three digital omnibuses that will follow.
There will be print books, too, but these books are BIG. So, for the print versions, I'll be creating a separate document for the annotations.
But, in any case, what I really came here to say is that, regardless of whether you’ve read the series previously or not, I hope you’ll take a chance on the Oberon gang when they return.
To quote Sir Paul McCartney, these past twenty years have been a long and winding road—for me, and for Scout.
Pre-Order your copy of Scent of the Roses at: https://books2read.com/u/4EpR5Y
Scent of the Roses
Oberon Book 1.0
For years, Scout Patterson has tried to run from the mistakes in her past. Now, she's coming home--to face the ghosts she's never laid to rest, and the love she thought she'd lost forever. Reawakening that love would be a dream come true. Unfortunately, love is not the only emotion that can last forever.
Memories and dreams are the only things that have gotten Nick Greco through the past twenty years. Memories of the girl he loved and lost, and dreams of what his life would be like, if he could only find her again. And if he can bring himself to believe that anything she tells him is true.
Can the star-crossed lovers put aside the hurt and distrust they still harbor toward each other? Or will the evil which already nearly destroyed them once, triumph yet again?
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