This just in…
eBook readers are in for a very special treat from Berkely/NAL…especially if you love Nora Roberts and their out-of-print Signet Regency line.
~ In January 2012, Penguin Group (USA)’s Berkley/NAL division will launch InterMix, a new e-initial eBook imprint.
~ InterMix will introduce original works from new authors as well as publish favorite titles from beloved authors such as Nora Roberts that are available as eBooks for the first time. InterMix will be focused on eBooks, though some titles might also eventually be published as physical books.
~ With the January 2012 launch, eleven classic books from Nora Roberts titles that have never before been available as eBooks will be released, including such popular series as Cordina’s Royal Family and The Donovan Legacy and several novels featuring fan favorites the O’Hurleys. Additional Nora Roberts eBooks will be published throughout 2012, with the second group including seven of Roberts’s beloved novels about the MacGregor family available in April.
~ The eBooks published by InterMix will encompass a wide range of genres, including women’s fiction, romance, mystery and thriller, and science fiction/fantasy. Every InterMix title, whether brand new or previously available in print, will receive fresh cover art, newly designed interiors, and creative marketing, publicity, and advertising campaigns.
~ In February, InterMix will revive the renowned Signet Regency line with the release of six popular romance titles that have never before been published as eBooks. Three additional Regency-set romances will be released each following month throughout 2012. And later in the year, InterMix will bring back four novels in the classic Guinevere Jones series from bestselling writer Jayne Ann Krentz, writing as Jayne Castle, that have long been out of print and have never been available as eBooks.
~ InterMix titles will be available wherever eBooks are sold, in a variety of formats compatible with all major eReaders.
Consider yourself flashed.
Carla Kelly indicated on her blog that a few of her old regencies will be published. “The NAL editor urged me not to return all my rights to Cedar Fort, and I said there were some I could revert to Signet. I chose Libby’s London Merchant and One Good Turn, because the latter is a sequel to the former, and I want to see where this goes. The editor also said she’d like me to write for them again.” It would be great to see her writing her regencies again.