This just in…

Susan Elizabeth Phillips has announced the re-release of the first book in her Chicago Stars series, It Had To Be You, in trade paperback. You also get your choice of covers if you don’t care for…boobies.

Susan herself asked for this cover design for the mass market paperback version of the book.

“This is the cover I asked them to design, and I love it, although, in retrospect, I guess we should have shown a little less…uh…bounty. Honestly, I didn’t think about the embarrassment factor when I asked for that cover. I only thought how perfectly it represented a story about a woman who had let her life be defined by her powerhouse body,” Susan said.

But if you’d rather have the alternative cover, this cute little guy is waiting just for you on the tradesize cover.

“We know there are lots of readers who won’t pick up what they perceive as a ‘romance paperback’ but will pick up the larger paperback format, and I love finding new readers. We’ve also designed this edition for book club members tired of sloughing through depressing novels (pretend I didn’t say that) and looking for something a bit more fun,” according to Susan.

The new edition includes a bonus article documenting how the Chicago Stars series came to be, some interesting facts about the book, and an entertaining essay written by author Elizabeth Bevarly–“It Had To Be Wonderful — How Doing It Wrong Made History.”

It Had To Be You was named one of the Top 25 Romances of the Century by Amazon.com and continues to be mentioned on nearly every reader list of favorite romances.

Consider yourself flashed.