Sue Kesby asked Abigail Roux:

Are you still planning to revamp the earlier Cut & Run books? Do you plan drastic rewrites, or just tightening up some of the writing (i.e., the bits you didn't write originally!) and some of the scenes?

Abigail Roux I absolutely do still plan to re-write, re-edit, and re-release the Cut & Run series books, along with every other book I get my rights back to from Dreamspinner in the next few years.

As for what I intend to do to them, they will most certainly receive a proper Riptide edit. The POV shifts in the first book will be resolved, and I think we can all agree that's both necessary and a serious challenge. So the first book will look quite different.

I do not intend to change the bones of the stories, which is something I know people have expressed worry over happening. But I do plan to smooth the wrinkles that can happen over 9 books - especially when the first 5 books were edited....loosely, whether I originally wrote them or not - and I intend to add new material for anyone who buys the new versions. I want the re-read to be entertaining and surprising even if you've read the original a dozen times before.

One thing that I'm so excited for is a special hardcover release Riptide has planned, and the only thing holding it up is how fast I can get through the rewrites! A full box set of hardcover novels, completely rewritten and edited, with new artwork and IT'S GOING TO BE AMAZING.

Those will be out long before the rights to the ebooks/paperbacks will revert to me, so if you've been waiting to buy hard copies of the series, that's the release I'd aim for!

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