Coincidences - second edition

I will soon be releasing the second edition of Coincidences, the first novel I ever wrote. The new edition is the same but different :)
I have added extra scenes and generally edited the book. The original book was just over 67,000 words, the new edition is nearly 82,000.

Coincidences was only ever published in hardback, over 10 years ago. I love the story and wanted to make it available to more readers. Many readers now prefer ebooks. I will be publishing this new version in ebook and paperback.

The idea was just to make it more easily available to people who want to read it, but as every writer knows, no novel is ever really finished, so whenever we re-read a book that we've written, we are more than likely to chop and change it, add bits, edit bits out, etc. This is why I would advise all writers to never, ever read their books again once published unless they want to spend their entire life editing :)

I didn't have an electronic version of Coincidences to work from, so I had to type up the manuscript from scratch. This meant reading it and hence this led to me editing it...

I am pleased with the final version and hope that I have succeeded in my aim to improve the book, while staying true to the original story. I know many of my readers love the book, so I avoided making any major changes to the plot.

I have a new cover to reveal... here it is:

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I took a photo of falling jigsaw pieces, to represent Alice's life and the way she was feeling in the book. I then messed around with the photo on iPhoto to change the colour because I think blue is most suited to the mood of the book.

The book is currently with my proofreaders and I am giving it the final once over before I'm ready to publish.