Are you able to give an example of the changes the updated version of Winter Wolf has? Typos I get but I was wondering about the "editorial" changes.

Aaah, yes, okay, amazon was faster than I expected.

Hi! Thanks for asking. I didn’t get to choose what the update e mail said. Amazon reviews the text and decides if the changes are significant enough to even warrant an update e mail, and then they decide what to call the update. And they’re vague as shit, so I’ll try to answer…possibly exhaustively. 

For the most part, it’s typos and stuff like “and dawn was breaking” being changed to “dawn broke.” That is a direct quote and actual change.

There’s a few instances of me playing the pronoun game that received some clarification—like, instead of “he did this and that to him and then he also blah blah,” some places now read “Leander did this and that to Axton and then Leander also blah blah.” 

My editor added in a TON of commas. I then took away the vast majority of these additions (all but two, I think). Stylistically, I feel my syntax and Axton’s voice were preserved perfectly. I’m pretty nuts for polysyndeton and asyndeton both, and all of that’s still there.

I’m usually loathe to admit it, but I’m ridiculously pretentious about my deliberately questionable grammar. All of that is exactly the same.

There were maybe two other sentences added for clarity somewhere. Maybe. I’m not even sure that’s true.

The front and back matter changed a little, mostly so I could correctly credit my cover artist T.K. Hunter and link to his websites. I also shortened my author bio because I figured nobody reads it anyway, so what the hell.

The one MAJOR change was this:

There was one scene in particular that somehow got a few lines cut in the version of the book that was out before Valentine’s Day. I corrected the scene in the V-Day version of the book, but never submitted it for an update notification because I knew I was going to have to do that for a professionally proofread version.

Here is the correct version (spooooilers, I guess, if anyone new is reading):

"Maybe." Leander cocked his head to the side. "But so that’s part of what you meant, when you said werewolves are old fashioned?"

"Yes." Axton stopped in front of one of the cabin windows, looking outside. "That’s most of what I meant."

"I’m sorry," Leander said, "That it was like that."

"Was?" Axton mused, still gazing at the snow, "Is. And not just with wolves, either."

"It isn’t like that anymore, though," Leander said, "I mean, there’s nothing wrong with—"

"I know there’s nothing wrong with it,” Axton said sharply, whirling around, “I know there is nothing wrong with me.”

And there is your exhaustive guide to the editorial changes in Winter Wolf! Personally, I want you and everyone to download the new version, because I think it’s better and I’m a control freak. But you do you! You absolutely don’t have to if you don’t care about typos, which some people don’t and that’s totally cool.

The only thing I really care about is the correct version of the scene up there, because to me, Axton’s sense of who he is and how it is okay to be himself is an essential part of his character. Despite his natural inclination to self doubt and general neuroticism, he is very sure that society is wrong here, not him.

Like, Leander probably plays “Born This Way” for him being all, “Look! This is a song for you!” and Axton, who lives in the woods and hasn’t heard anything on the pop charts in a decade is like, “What the fuck are you talking about.” But Leander’s not wrong! Sort of!

Anyway, hey, thanks. You are great. Let me know if you’d prefer this to be answered privately.