Crying in the Rain - Second Edition - available now

Ten years ago (to the day), I released Crying in the Rain – a bi/gay love story (MM romance) and a stand-alone novel in the Hiding Behind The Couch universe.

Today, I’m releasing the second edition of Crying in the Rain.

I’ve been updating the formatting of all my books for a while now – optimistically I thought I’d have them all done in 2023, and I don’t have too many left to do, but it’s a lengthy task. While I’m at it, I’m reading through each story, correcting any errors I notice and sorting out my British commas. That’s all most of the stories need for me to be happy with them.

But then I reached Crying in the Rain, and, well, rather than paraphrase myself, here’s my Author’s Note from the new edition:

To be clear, I didn’t hate the first edition, but seeing the things I didn’t like about it crop up in reviews…well, there’s an argument there for not reading reviews, I suppose, but those readers weren’t wrong. There was too much ‘head-hopping’. Crying in the Rain is essentially a romance novel, and modern romance novels are usually written from one point of view at a time rather than the ‘psychic fly on a very nearby wall’ omniscient narration I most often use in the series.

So I’ve fixed the head-hopping. What I haven’t changed is the overall story or the characterisation, but I have developed both further, expanding some scenes and deleting others, including the original epilogue, which was from Fergus’s point of view.

The second edition is around 70,000 words (the first was about 58,000) and is available through the usual places – visit https://books2read.com/b/CryingintheRain2edn for purchase links or buy directly from Beaten Track here: https://beatentrackpublishing.com/cryingintherain

As this version is significantly different from the first edition, I’ve had to release it as an entirely separate book, but any readers of the first edition who would like a free update to the second edition (ebook only), please get in touch (via https://beatentrackpublishing.com/?n1=contact) and I’ll send it your way.

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Blurb

For many years, Ade Simmons has been an outsider, trapped in an abusive relationship, seeking sanctuary in his job as a radio producer and in the checklists he makes in an attempt to regain control of his sorry excuse of a life.

Actor Kris Johansson is patient, gentle and passionate – everything Ade’s ex-boyfriend is not. When Kris takes a role in one of Ade’s plays, the attraction is mutual and instant. It is the turning point for Ade. He can either stay on the same path, with Fergus, the bully who has repressed, used and isolated him from his friends and family, or he can look in the other direction, towards Kris, the handsome actor with family and friends who readily accept him.

But Fergus will not give up his punchbag so easily. Can Ade finally find the strength to fight back?

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Part of the Hiding Behind The Couch series. This story falls chronologically during the second half of The Harder They Fall (Season Three). The story continues in First Christmas (Novella) and In The Stars Part I (Season Four).