Hey! Just a quick shout about a 99-cent ebook sale for No Ordinary Man, a romantic suspense novel from Harlequin Books, first published waaaay back in 1996.
Yeah, this puppy is officially thirty years old, and packed with… lots of sweet, sweet nineties goodness. (Pay phones! Pagers! Dial-up internet connections! Ah, remember that teeth-jarring sound as we waited interminably long to get online?)
Dude’s looking pretty good considering he was in his early 30s in 1996…
Anyway, if you’re collecting ebook editions of vintage Brockmann series romance novels, this one’s kinda fun, plus it has quite an interesting back story.
I originally wrote NOM quite early in my career, and both my regular publisher, Silhouette Intimate Moments and Harlequin’s Intrigue line rejected it for being “too dark and gritty.” (I got a lot of “too gritty” in my early rejection letters at the start of my career, and instead of sand-papering away my rough edges, I leaned into it. I truly believed that my “grittiness” as a writer was my super-power and that those editors who rejected me early on just needed to catch up.) (I was not wrong!!)
But in the case of No Ordinary Man, this is a book in which the intrepid heroine suspects that the hero (a new neighbor) is a (wait for it…) serial killer. Yup. That old “I wonder if he’s a serial killer, damn he’s hot” trope. Haha! I intentionally wrote the book mostly from the heroine’s POV to play into those seeds of doubt, which as you probably know is something a little different for me.
Anyway, a year or so after those two hard #Nopes in the early 1990s, I saw a sidebar article in Romantic Times magazine (a romance novel writer/reader publication popular in the 80s and 90s, kids) that Harlequin Intrigue was bringing back their “Dangerous Men” imprint, and were actively looking for books with “dark” heroes.
I thought, “Hey! How’s serial killer? Is serial killer dark enough for ya?”
So I dusted off the manuscript and sent it back.
And this time I got a #HellYeah.
As I mentioned above, No Ordinary Man was released in April, 1996, which means it just officially turned thirty years old.
Right now (and I don’t know for how long, so grab it fast!) it’s only 99-cents in the U.S. and Canada. (I’m so sorry, UK and Australia, for some reason the publisher’s e-sale doesn’t include you. Why? Who can know, it’s a mystery.)
Here’s the No Ordinary Man page on my website, which includes more info about this book plus links to all of your usual fav ebooksellers: https://suzannebrockmann.com/books/no-ordinary-man/
Okay, that’s it for now! (I’ll be back in a week or so with an update on a coupla upcoming projects!!)
Until then, wishing you peace, light, and joyful inspiration during these dark, uncertain times—with the hope that there’ll be much to be grateful for in the coming days of community, activism, and resistance, brought about by our deep love of freedom and democracy, and our commitment to spreading LOVE.
Yours truly,
Suz
