This new cover for Their Cruel Love is to match the first two books set in the CNC Fraternity. 

Some seem unwilling to try a book in a series if the series appears 'incomplete.' For a day, I trialed publishing this as a standalone spin-off book, with the same setting as the others - which is exactly what it is. I then backflipped and placed it in the series again.

​However, the plot does not continue on from the previous books and none of the characters are in previous books, except for Razor, who appears in one scene in His Talisman.

I wasn't going to add any more to this on social media. I stepped into the wrong review on Goodreads, thinking they wouldn't mind and stirred up some controversy and subsequent review bombing on my latest book. I was a mix of amused, amazed, and sometimes horrified by events. So bizarre to have a reddit thread about myself. Believe it or not, I am just a person, like you.

However, when someone on my temporary street team asked me to address a rumor that I had bullied someone, I realised it would (probably) be best to say what happened. Thank you Amy, for that question.

For anyone not in the know, I pointed out a hair color fact the reviewer had wrong. I'm a bit anal about facts. (screenshot below) After which I apologized for intruding and said, thank you, when she amended the review, though really just agreeing in comments would have been enough for me.

Goodreads deleted my comments on her review, as well my own review and graphic - I never rate my own, it's a promotional thing that some authors do.

I have OODLES of low-starred reviews (1s and 2s) after decades of writing and may have commented on 2 of those over ten years??? I tend to read them all, good and bad - many times I have said this on Facebook. Many authors read reviews. Some, like me, read them all.

My 2 following comments on her review I have no copy of, but approximately those said this ~>

Comment 2: Thank you for amending the review. That, yes, the hair color was mentioned in just one descriptive passage in my book, but that it was also a fairly large part of her review - which was why I asked her whether it was in her version of the book.
(And it was late at night when I made that first comment and early morning when I made the 2nd and 3rd (bad idea).)

THEN I read her review more thoroughly and saw she was alarmed that Cecile commented.
Comment 3
I said I had reread, that I'd missed some of her main points due to skimming. I said "Karma?" thinking I'd just done what she had done in the book (selfdeprecating, as I do, but I can see some might misinterpret that.) I explained I hadnt asked Cecile to comment, but that she is devoted reader.

I can't recall the rest well,  but I know I said something like I read reviews like a crack wh*re,  because it now seems someone saw that as an insult to the reviewer? (I've said this about myself a few times, prior to this) I do read reviews like an addict. lol My bad habit. Also an awful simile, but I've no idea how anyone saw that as anything but me explaining my addiction to reviews.

Then I said "I won't comment again. Promise."
I also said thank you once (?), apologized for intruding, once. I was trying to be VERY polite.

​After it was deleted, I redid my 'review' of my book with less 'confrontation' - the Goodreads Support word.

However, here is the original full transcript that was on my review, GR emailed me THIS after deletion. I feel this says everything way better than I have above.

In the interest of full disclosure, I could add the link to the reddit - but I gather it's easy to find on search with my name. I could link to her review, but I prefer if people who like me, or even those who dislike me due to my rabid reading of reviews, to simply leave it be.

I'm not a bully, though I am a pita over facts. For that I will apologise.

So that is it. The saga laid out from my side. I can see some detest authors commenting on reviews, and some are horrified we even READ them. Many of my fans do like me commenting but I will be sticking to those higher reviews in future.

​Just remember, strangers are reading everything you write...

Leaving this here on that note of horror.
(If this blows up, I'll be in my nuclear bunker)