Ruling Passion Oct 28

We finally have a publication date for the Ruling Passion. The first reader copies will be available Oct. 28th. We will begin presale as soon as the website has been updated.

These early editions will be different only in the texture of the cover. We will have the upgraded metallic/matte cover by late November for those who would prefer it.

At purchase, just let me know if you'd like your book dedicated or autographed.

The Darcys: The Ruling Passion

We have a release date of November for The Darcys: The Ruling Passion. As the time approaches, we will be more specific. If you are interested in reserving a copy, just email me: lberdoll@aol.com.

The first copies will be available through this website. We will also make it available to Amazon, B&N and other bookstores. It will also available in e-book form, but I can't yet give you a date for that.

Darcy & Elizabeth: The Ruling Passion is finished!

Yea! I just finished writing The Ruling Passion. Now I will be editing and checking continuity. My editor will be on it like a duck on a June bug as soon as I turn it over to her. That, of course, is the rocky part--wresting it from my grip. If anyone can, Terry can!

I projected 80 chapters, but right now it stands at 86. I will be putting the new cover up on the main page of my website ASAP so everyone can have a look at it.

I can't wait for the grand unveiling!

Linda

Update

I am sixty-eight chapters into The Ruling Passion...twelve more to go.

BTW

For those readers who have read my books several times, do you recall if there was ever an encounter between Wickham and Juliette?

I was quoted (correctly) as saying that The Ruling Passion was to take us to the Darcy children's romances, say fifteen years into their future. As it stands now, that is highly unlikely. I am far too slow a writer (and can't seem to keep the Darcys out of bed long enough) to take them that far.

As my first book premised, marriage is not where romance ends, it is where life begins.

The ruling Passion, be it what it will
The ruling passion conquers reason still.

In England, late Regency was a dicey time for all classes. As much as Mr. Darcy would like to stay far from London, he cannot. Menace is afoot and misapprehensions abound, therefore The Ruling Passion will only take us another five years into their lives.

Thanks so much for your encouragement!

Linda Berdoll

FANDANGO

Fandango will be available only at this website beginning next week. We will have a shopping cart up for those of you who would like to order a copy. As for the storyline, this is from the back cover:

Rich and bored to sobs, it is inevitable that Annabella Chase will leave a string of broken men in her wake. On the way to everlasting love, she takes several detours. The first is when her heart is captivated by the sun-tanned sinews and wind-swept locks of a handsome whaler. In her path soon falls Asher Price, indifferent to everyone and determined to stay that way. Even the headstrong Annabella learns that it is one thing to ask for trouble, quite another to offer it a chair.

There are few truths in 1849 San Francisco. One is that every soul in town came to escape from something--or someone.

Fandango is not the Darcys, but I hope you will enjoy it nonetheless.

Linda Berdoll

Fandango has finally been completed to suit me and is in the editing process. I would love it to be out by the end of the year, but that seems unlikely.

As for The Ruling Passion, I am well into it and very happy with how it is going. I offer my apologies for being as slow. Granted, I'm an inveterate re-writer, but this book requires additional time in that I have to make certain that the plot and characters are true to what occurred in the MDTAW and D&E.

I'll not burden you with further whining, but only say that I feel a kinship those of you who like my take on the Darcys. You must be the romantic sort--and have a great sense of humour!

Cheers,
Linda Berdoll