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Fallen!

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Fallen, an urban fantasy romance by Claire DelacroixWell, this took longer than I expected (I think I should embroider that on a cushion or something – everything is taking longer than I expect!) The new edition of FALLEN is now available for sale. It’s been completely re-edited and reformatted, plus there is additional bonus content in this version. The rest of the original trilogy should go much more quickly now.

Here’s all the promotional goodness. You can read an excerpt from this urban fantasy romance right here. Just FYI, I decided to register FALLEN in Amazon KDP Select, which means it will be available only at Amazon for the next 90 days. The links to the other portals are pre-orders for January 15, 2014.

At the end of the 21st century, the future of humanity hangs in the balance, caught between the radioactive waste of a half century of nuclear wars and the repressive authority of the Republic. Angels sacrifice their wings to join a secret fraternity of freedom fighters, risking classification as mutants and consignment to the Republic’s slave dens. Each warrior is a volunteer, but no angel anticipates the full cost of his fall.

The eyes of the Republic are everywhere.

Lilia Desjardins has never played by the rules and she isn’t about to start when her estranged husband’s death is declared an accident. Lilia knows Gid better than that, and if anyone is owed justice, it’s the most decent man she’s ever known. She leaves all she knows to risk the dark heart of the Republic—only to find that she herself has been targeted by forces unknown and that her deepest secret has not only been uncovered but will be used against her.

Adam Montgomery will do anything to complete his earthly mission and return to the existence he knows, even if he has to seduce the enigmatic Lilia Desjardins. But when his contact is murdered and he must rely upon Lilia’s silence to save him from the slave dens, Adam knows that his wings might be only his first sacrifice.

As danger and intrigue surround them, Lilia and Adam realize they must work together—body, mind and soul—in order to save the world.

“Beautifully written, intensely passionate and gripping, FALLEN grabbed me from the first sentence and didn’t let go. It’s Matrix, Blade Runner and Terminator rolled into a riveting love story and made better. Perfect. A must-read by an author who keeps you on the edge of your seat.”–Linnea Sinclair, Award-winning author of Shades of Dark

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Book Buyer’s Best Award for Best Paranormal, Time travel of Fantasy Romance

“FALLEN is electrifying, suspenseful, and poignant. Claire Delacroix has me intrigued and begging for more of this supernaturual and futuristic world!”–Romance Junkies

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Bonus Content?

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It’s been quiet here this week, because I’ve been lost in the realm of the Republic – or maybe, its netherzones. I’ve been working on the new editions of the Prometheus Project trilogy. This is a wonderful opportunity to go through the books again. Most ongoing series end up with a few continuity errors—because the books are written and published incrementally, not all at once—so it’s fabulous to have a chance to tweak the book files.

Fallen, an urban fantasy romance by Claire DelacroixFallen, first in the series, is also an interesting book, because I wrote it several times and there were major changes between each version. The first version was very different from what was originally published: the idea was that an historian was trying to document the events in the book, several years after the fact. For various reasons, the only source document available to the historian was Lilia’s diary, presenting her version of events. The historian believed that Lilia was an unreliable narrator (good observation there) and had annotated her diary with footnotes, as well as splicing in newspaper articles and other documents to make her references more clear. The book was written in first person, because it came from that diary.

There were a lot of changes to the story and the book’s structure on the way to publication, including the change to third person POV. The historian disappeared, along with her annotations and footnotes, the story ended differently, and it was structured differently. One major addition was my favorite in the whole book, the opening scene in Montgomery’s POV, which only became possible because of the shift to third person POV. We know a lot more about Montgomery and fallen angels in the final version of the story, but less about Lilia and her opinions.

The point here is that I have a lot of extra content associated with this story that has never been published before. I’d thought of preparing it as a companion volume, but it only exists for Fallen, not for the other books in the series. (And quadrupling the content isn’t a job I want right now.) So, I’m going to include some of it as bonus content in the new edition of Fallen—my question to you is how much bonus content do you prefer? Lots? A little? None? Should bonus content about a world be unequivocably true? Or can it be biased, thus showing as much about the character writing it as the world? I’m thinking that articles are more interesting than chronologies of events, but maybe you have a different view.

Tell me what you think. 🙂