All About “Handsome Ransom”
After months and months of waiting, the all-time best selling Marcia Lynn McClure romance, The Visions of Ransom Lake is finally back in print and available to readers! With a fresh “text-lift,” “Handsome Ransom” is ready, once again, to fulfill the dreams of the “Vaden Valmont” in us all.
“There are some changes to the
book,” Marcia says. “Not with the plot or anything like that…it’s just a smoother read.
I found some dialect inconsistencies when I read “Ransom” several
months ago and I’ve corrected those as well as a few other things which seemed
to scream at me (see excerpts below). All
in all, it’s exactly the same story, just a bit…um…prettier to read!
The
print set up is different in this edition as well.
Many readers have requested a bolder, slightly larger print, and this
edition offers that. I also like to
refer to this edition as ‘flexible’—and I mean that literally!
The laminate cover stock and perfect bound white paper, make the book
literally more flexible for the reader.
As
for the cover, tons of “Handsome Ransom” fans wrote in requesting we use the
same cover art, and we did stay with it as best we could.
Being that this edition is a second edition with limited marketing,
however, the exorbitant costs of a matte finished, foil-embossed covers made it
impossible for Distractions Ink to meet the expenses of the producing exact same
cover as the first edition. We did,
however, take a graphics model of the original cover art and implement it—so
fear not—Mr. Wimber’s pumpkin patch lives on!
All in all, though the book does display some actual printed product
changes, “Handsome Ransom,” is as dreamy as he ever was!
It’s always intrigued me—why The Visions of Ransom Lake is one of the reader favorites. Friends offer me a few explanations—the one I hear most often is, “Because, of all your heroines, Vaden is the most like you!” Vaden is so much like me and maybe this is the reason my friends love the story so much. Still, maybe everybody is like me and just loves a story with pumpkins in it! Maybe Ransom really is the handsomest hero I’ve ever written! Who knows! All I know is I’m glad the story is available to friends again! I’ve missed it!”
Something about The Visions of Ransom Lake seems to thoroughly capture our hearts! Whether it’s Vaden’s antics, Ransom’s kisses, or Vaden and Ransom’s romance as a whole, The Visions of Ransom Lake remains one of Marcia Lynn McClure fans all-time-favorites and we’re elated to make it available to readers again!
New
and Old Text Snippets
Here’s
an example of the type of text changes Marcia made while “text-lifting” The Visions of Ransom Lake.
You’ll notice in this instance (especially if you know Vaden) the
changes are very subtle, simply adding to the feel and flow of the story.
Original
Text:
"But,
Vonnie…just look at this land! At
the space! Gaze on the beauty of
that horizon!” Vaden exclaimed as she marveled at the large, fluffy clouds
drifting across the bluest of blue sky. “It’s like…like our spirits can
breathe out here! And when we get to
Aunt Myra’s and Uncle Dan’s little town…well they’re sure to have quaint
little county fairs and pumpkin patches and enormous red barns and town socials
and cowboys and…" Vaden rambled as she gazed dreamily out the stagecoach
window.
"And
gunmen and bank robbers, and wells instead of pumps and plumbing, and bedbugs
and horse manure in the middle of the street," Yvonne added with a
prominent tone of sarcasm.
New
Text:
“But,
Vonnie…just look at this land! At the space! Gaze on the beauty of that
horizon!” Vaden exclaimed, marveling at the beautiful, white, fluffy clouds
drifting across the bluest of blue sky. “It’s as if…as if our spirits can
breathe out here! And when we get to Aunt Myra’s and Uncle Dan’s little
town…well they’re sure to have quaint little town socials and pumpkin
patches and enormous red barns and quilting bees and cowboys and…” Vaden
rambled as she gazed dreamily out the stagecoach window.
“And gunmen and bank robbers, and wells instead of pumps and plumbing, and bedbugs, and horse manure in the middle of the street,” Yvonne added with a prominent tone of sarcasm.