I’ve been getting organized lately (ha) and catching up on my To Do list. One of the results is that new editions of the Rose Trilogy are finally going to be published.

This is a loosely connected series of medieval romances that were initially published by Harlequin Historicals. The first book was my first book ever published, Romance of the Rose, and the series grew organically, featuring characters from that book which I liked. Harlequin never branded it as a series, but I often did and you’ll find it referenced as one on sites like GoodReads as a result.

Here are their original covers from Harlequin Historicals. All of these cover illustrations were painted by Judy York.

The rights to these books reverted to me a while ago (I have all my rights back now) but I didn’t have book files for them any more. I had all of my older books scanned about ten years ago, a process that results in a Word file, but one that is a mess. There are a lot of strange characters, font changes, misreads, etc., and correcting those files to make them useful can be discouraging. I lost heart and only ever republished four of my eleven Harlequin Historicals.

I did, however, commission new covers for this series almost ten years ago, and they’ve been waiting patiently on me. This past week, I dug into those pesky files – to my delight, some of the newer tools in Word are very useful. I still have to go through the books and edit them line by line, and I will have them proofread, as well, but these new editions are in the works.

Here are the new covers, which are linked to the new pages for the books here on the site.

I’m hoping to publish one a month this summer, starting in June. They will be enrolled in Kindle Unlimited, and the pre-orders will go up as soon as the files are completed.