My Apologies to My First Readers

Today I happened to go to the Amazon.com page for the print version of my new book, So Faithful a Heart: When Love Won't Die, Special Edition and found that they had dropped the price from $23.50 to $16.92 and was quite upset over it. Normally, it wouldn't have bothered me, but (a) I wasn't notified that they were going to do this, (b) the book has been out for less than a month and I've barely had a chance to market it, (c) my first readers, who paid the regular list price, will go to my page to leave reviews only to find that they paid nearly $10.00 more and (d) in dropping the price so low within the first month of its release it looks bad on me and on my book and indicates that Amazon doesn't have much faith in its success (although how an independent author is supposed to have roaring success within the first month of their book's release is beyond me).

My apologies to my first readers who paid a much higher price for their books. I assure you, this was not my doing. I set the price at $23.50 with the thought that this was reasonable for a 530 page, 180,000 word novel that was written, edited, and published with such high quality as this one has been. I could see Amazon lowering the price after six months or so, if the book wasn't selling well, but not within two weeks of the marketing page's debut. That's simply ridiculous. Believe me, Amazon HAS heard from me on this.

Look what arrived in the mail today!

It looks like I have some books to sign! 

(They're beautiful, aren't they?)

Available in ALL Ereader formats

If you own an Ereader, but it's not a Kindle, I've thought of you, too. My newest book is available at Smashwords.com in ALL Ereader formats including Epub, Nook, Palm Doc, and RTF.

So what's it all about?

I've had several people ask me what my new book, So Faithful a Heart: When Love Won't Die is all about since everyone who read the first book knows the ending to Nancy and Wolfgang's love story. After several people read The Love Story of Nancy Storace & Wolfgang Mozart, they came to me and said that they fell so in love with Nancy Storace that they wanted to know the rest of her life's story. So it was with those requests in mind that I wrote the sequel, When Love Won't Die.

Set in the late 18th century through the early 19th century (starting in 1791 to 1817), When Love Won't Die tells of Nancy's struggle to move past the unexpected death of her lover, Wolfgang Mozart, and go on with her life and career. Although Mozart is dead, he looms large throughout the entire story, right to the end, through the letters that he wrote to Nancy throughout the course of the last five years of his life.

Nancy is confronted with the formidable task of going on despite her loss and is met with the challenge of opening herself up to love again. In this story we meet the young tenor, John Braham, who emerges as the new love interest. A student of Nancy's former voice instructor, Venanzio Rauzzini, Braham's relationship with Nancy begins when Rauzzini introduces them and asks Nancy to sing in the 19-year-old tenor's debut concert in Bath.

When Love Won't Die is filled with many of the characters that readers of the first book will know such as Nancy's older brother, Stephen Storace and her mother Elizabeth, the jolly and heart-warming Irish tenor, Michael Kelly, and the composer and dear friend of Mozart's, Joseph Haydn. There is also a host of new characters, all whom Nancy knew and with whom she shared close relationships including, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson & his mistress Emma Hamilton, the famous English singer/actress Elizabeth Billington, and the famous English architect, Sir John Soane. There's even an element of intrigue in the underlying subplot involving Mozart's widow, Constanze and her new husband, the Danish dipolmat, Georg Nissen!

So Faithful a Heart: When Love Won't Die is NOW AVAILABLE at Amazon.com in a picture-illustrated combined Special Edition with a re-edited and newly rewritten version of book One, So Faithful a Heart: The Love Story of Nancy Storace & Wolfgang Mozart. It is also available in Kindle Ebook at Amazon.com and will soon be available in all other Ebook formats at Smashwords.com.

So Faithful a Heart, Special Edition Now on Kindle!

So Faithful a Heart, Special Edition, including Book I, The Love Story of Nancy Storace & Wolfgang Mozart, and Book II, the sequel When Love Won't Die is now available for purchase on Amazon Kindle!

The love story continues...

When Love Won't Die: Cover Blurb

Thanks to Nellie Kampmann, author of A Haunted History of Columbus, Ohio for the cover blurb for So Faithful a Heart: When Love Won't Die--Special Edition. 

"What do you do when you wake up one morning to find love’s fondest hopes and dreams have been shattered in a single night? Famed 18th century opera singer Anna Storace faces this question when life and death conspire to keep her apart from her beloved Mozart. Anna’s struggle takes her on a sweeping adventure from the glittering stages of Europe, to its war torn battlefields, and back to her bucolic haven in the English countryside. Based on the true story of Anna Storace’s life, So Faithful a Heart: When Love Won’t Die is a whirlwind of loss, romance, betrayal, intrigue, and eternal love."