It's here!

[valarltd]

(and they fixed his eyes, yay!)

http://www.ellorascave.com/productpage.asp?ISBN=9781419920745



"Now the maid,” Robin took up the thread where he had gotten distracted. Will passed over the sack again.

"Oh aye, tell me of her and I shall compose a song and serenade her until she drops a flowerpot on me or consents to be yours. One will come first.”

Robin laughed again at that and then all his mirth went out of him. “I don't even know her name. I only saw her from a distance. I must find a way to get a message to her.” He paused and worried his lower lip with his teeth. “If she'll accept it.”

Will smiled. “Leave that to me, sweet master. Tell me, where did you see her? I know a few chambermaids, aye, more than a few. I can learn her name and get your message delivered.”

"She was on the North Tower of Nottingham castle, watching me. She wore blue, like the Virgin, and had the face of an angel in a church painting. I smiled and she waved, Will. She waved her kerchief at me.” Will smiled at this and Robin went on. “I fear I grew over-eager, for I blew her a kiss. She hastened inside as if distressed, but not without a last wave.” He noticed the alarm on Will's face and asked, ”What?”

"Oh you did not!” Will clouted him from behind on the head. “Robin, you beautiful idiot, that was the Princess.”

Robin's melancholy left him at once. “Princess? Why didn't I hear of this?” He looked at Will. “Tell me everything.” After a moment he thought the better of it. “Princess. I suppose there's no hope for a romance.”

"Lady Marion FitzRoy is good King Richard's daughter. I suspect King John wishes to marry her to someone suitable, like Nottingham, so she's been sent to live with him. She's been here for almost two years, but she is not allowed out of the castle except to go to Mass.”

Robin turned thoughtful “I wonder if I can draw her out,” he mused. “I'd rather it were me she is to wed than Phillip of Nottingham. I would not trust him to care for a hart I was about to kill.”

Will shrugged. “There is the small matter of being dispossessed of your rightful half of Lincolnshire, yes. Not to mention the fact your family supported Henry and Richard, but you failed John. But on the whole, you'd make a better husband any day and twice as good on holidays.”

Comments

[celestinenox]

I thought it was Heart of THE Forest?

[bittermint.livejournal.com]

Yayyy! Downloading now! But man, is EC's website sloooooowwww...

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

We thought so too until about three days ago...

Apparently, when we changed the title, the article got fouled up. And since that was on all the official paperwork, we were stuck.

[celestinenox]

Well, that's unfortunate....

Also... Jasmine Jade Enterprises? >.> Just because, I looked it up on ellorascave.com, and wonder why they list Naomi as Alyssa Brooks? And wondering about the jasminejade.com link....

And feeling like I've missed something somewhere and I'm a dumbass.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Jasmine Jade is the new Ellora's Cave website. Why? I don't know. They should know better than to mess with a brand that sells.

Naomi is listed as Alyssa because of a website copy error.

You haven't missed anything. This is just a rush job.

[celestinenox]

And it just... generally doesn't look good. I mean... yeah. I saw that link, and to see "Ellora's Cave" on a cover when the title of the page is "Jasmine Jade Enterprises," just does not instill a sense of trust. Despite knowing you, it does not make me want to buy.

I will, because it's you, but just saying. To me, it seems fishy.

[elisabeth.livejournal.com]

Nabbed. Thank you. A pity it's not available in dead tree format, but I'll take what I can get. :)

[nbrooks.livejournal.com]

I think Jasmine Jade was supposed to be Ellora's venture into being a multi-publisher distributor, like Fictionwise. I think they abandoned the project, but the website still stands to sell their own books.

It annoys me as well, because it's always a lot slower than the actual Ellora's Cave site.

[celestinenox]

Ah, I see. :/

Is there any difference in buying from the Jasmine Jade and buying from the Ellora's Cave site? They're both active, and I don't know why, but I'd just feel better buying from EC.com rather than JJ.com.

[nbrooks.livejournal.com]

Nope. No difference. They handle the transactions on both themselves, so JJ isn't adding a middleman or anything.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

It's fixed. Thanks for alerting me.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Enjoy. We had fun writing it.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

It's a release day, that means every EC reader and her sister is buying.

Hope you enjoy it.

[celestinenox]

Okay, thank you!

[sidewinder.livejournal.com]

I just purchased and downloaded! Looking forward to what looks like an interesting story. Fwiw, this is actually the first "original" fic of this kind I've bought to read (as I tend to be much more of a "fanfic" reader for romance/erotica than original-fic reader). The premise just really caught my interest, as did the excerpt, and it seemed like a very interesting take on an old story :) I'll be sure to post a review/comments once I've had the chance to read it.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Enjoy.
It is still sort of fanfic off the legends.

We have a mental cast as well, so it's kinda fanfic off everything, the Flynn film, the Disney, Firefly. (it helps if you imagine John Glover as Sir David. Imaginary!John does one heck of an Una O'Connor impersonation)

[sidewinder.livejournal.com]

I think that's part of what appealed to me, the idea of "fanficcing" a legend. I really like twists of that sort.