JOANNA’S BIO JOANNA’S BOOK LIST EDITING & COVER DESIGN
Ebooks now available again—phew!—and paperbacks, too
I should explain that, due to a problem with Amazon/KDP, my publishing account was deleted and so all my ebooks disappeared last year.
That meant republishing all my ebooks again from scratch which I’ve now done, first via other platforms (Apple Books, Kobo, B&N etc), and then Amazon. The non-Amazon list is now complete, as ebooks and in print, too. For Amazon, I’ve produced the books in ebook sets which are also available on Kindle Unlimited. Four sets (totalling 12 books) are already available; one more set still to come, with my two timeslip stories in it.
All my books will be back on sale eventually through all platforms and there are links in the book list for those that are available already. I’ll update this information as things change.
What’s coming next from Joanna?
Those who have read my various comments on Theo, the vampire I created for I, Vampire in the Beach Hut Surprise anthology, will know that I fell in love with him. Basically, he was unwilling to disappear from the stage after just one novella. So…?
So I have been writing full-length stories, featuring Theo and his eternal love, Lucinda. Plus a new human sidekick that I hope readers will warm to. Two stories are already complete, bar final editing, and a third is on the way.
Book 1 of Theo’s “Vampire Sleuths” series should be appearing later this year under the title A Body in the Metro. (Yes, well spotted. It’s set mostly in Paris. And it includes a body. Cosy crime with vampires, anyone?)
But before that, there’s going to be another novella about my vampire Theo’s adventures.
It’s called The Vampire and the Veiled Lady and it will be published in the new Libertà anthology, Hauntings at the Black Cat Inn.
This new novella is set in the Georgian period, specifically 1784. Why that year? Well, some of the story is historically accurate, so it did have to be that year. When you read it—as I hope you will—you’ll see why. And you’ll find out the identity of the lady under the veil too.
The new collection will be published on 13th October 2026 but it is available now for preorder at the special price of 99p/99¢.
You can order it here. It’s a bargain, so why not?
MORE ABOUT JOANNA MAITLAND
JOANNA’S BIO JOANNA’S BOOK LIST EDITING & COVER DESIGN
I have been reading — and writing! — stories for as long as I can remember and I love to share favourite books. I may have written (mostly) romantic novels including some that have a fantasy setting, but I read all sorts of fiction besides romance — lots of crime, thrillers, fantasy and science fiction, timeslip, historicals. I’m hoping that readers at Libertà will point me to new genres and authors I’ve been missing.
If you’d like one, my full (printable) book list is here.
I also offer cover design as well as editing services. More details here.
And if you’re looking for the research snippets that used to be on my old joannamaitland.com website, you’ll now find them here on the Libertà website. Links are at the end of the same page.
Joanna’s Free Short Story!
To celebrate Burns Night 2016 — I am a Scot, after all — I posted a tongue-in-cheek take-off of Tam O’Shanter with my blog. The story is still available here on the website, as a free read. You can even print it, if you like!
In the Earl’s Mistletoe Bride you talk about the servants “removing the cloth and setting out the dessert and decanterson the polished mahogany”. Please, how did the servants “remove the cloth” whlie the guests were still sitting at the table. Do you know?
That’s a really good question, Louise, and I’m not sure I know the answer for sure. It was certainly what was usually done, but how, without inconveniencing the diners? Well, by the time dinner got to that point, all the cutlery would have been used or removed. Ditto the plates and most of the glasses. And if it was a dinner with “removes”, all the serving platters would have been removed from the table centre at the end of each course/remove. If it was a dinner without removes (à la russe), there would be no serving platters on the table. So there probably wouldn’t have been much on the tablecloth at the crucial point. It would have been fairly easy for servants to reach across and remove any remaining glasses etc and then whisk off the tablecloth. I think. But if there were heavy ornaments etc in the middle of the table it would have been much more difficult, perhaps impossible to do. In Salter’s painting of the 1836 Waterloo Banquet the eating is over and they’ve reached the stage of toasts; it certainly looks as if the cloth is still there, but given the weight of the Portuguese silver centrepiece, that’s understandable. You can see the silver at Apsley House. It’s enormous.