The trouble with Heartsblood

A couple of years after I published my first novels, I had a wild idea I wanted to write, but felt like it didn’t really fit into what people expected from me.

I decided to publish it under a pen name. It was an experiment as well, because I was really curious about how my books would be received when people didn’t know it was me writing them. Having a pen name was freeing and I wrote a whole bunch of more adult and crazy stuff under that name.

But having a second secret pen name was also a lot of work, too much, and I got tired of it.

I made the plan last year of republishing those novels under my own name (with some slight edits). I removed them from sale everywhere, gave them new titles and new covers and re-released them mid last year as the Heartsblood series.

I said goodbye to my pen name for what I thought was forever.

All well and good, until I got a notification from Amazon in November saying they had removed one of the Heartsblood series, because apparently they don’t allow a book to have the title and author changed and be republished. Oops. They also told me I had to remove the rest of the series too.

This is because it can cause confusion for readers, who may not realise they had already bought or read the book under the previous title information. I can totally understand their reasoning there.

So the Heartsblood series hasn’t been available as ebooks on Amazon for a few months now. I tried to get answers from them about the best and correct way to make the series available again, but got no response. 

I’ve gone ahead and made my own efforts to make it as clear as possible now that the Heartblood series are republished, and what their previous title and author were. So if you were ever curious what my pen name was, you can now see that it was Lena Fox. 

Here’s what the series used to look like, the Vampire Temptations series.