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Norah Wilson | The Book that Wouldn’t Die
Author Guest / September 3, 2012

Tomorrow (9/4/12), Montlake Romance will publish my romantic suspense, EVERY BREATH SHE TAKES.  But it won’t be the first time this story has seen publication. It was first published in 2004 by Dorchester Publishing under the title LAUREN’S EYES, after it won Dorchester’s New Voice in Romance contest. I was thrilled to join the ranks of my mass market-published friends. Then I saw my cover. Actually, most of the romance writing community saw my cover before I did. It was unveiled at a Romantic Times conference which I was unfortunately unable to attend, but the lovely Julianne MacLean stood in for me and posed with my pretty cover on my behalf. And it truly was a beautiful cover, with gorgeous pastel colors, depicting three fantasy-type horses with long flowing manes. The problem? The book in question is not a pastel fantasy. It’s a sexy, gritty romantic suspense with a relatively slight – but key – paranormal element (psychic heroine). The upshot, of course, between the small print run and the lack of a genre-appropriate cover, was that the book failed to find its audience with Dorchester, and I subsequently reacquired the publishing rights. Fast forward to 2011 when I was…