Cupid and Psyche and Romeo and Juliet. Sounds like quite a complicated love story, doesn't it? I don't remember what first inspired me to weave Cupid into the Montagues' and Capulets' family histories, since I wrote the first draft of this story about a decade ago. I submitted the story, then called "Antidote for a Family Feud," to a couple of publications. While I got some praise from the editors, they ultimately rejected it, and I set it aside and worked on other projects. Finally, last year, I figured out a fresh approach to the story: Cupid writing letters to his wife while he stays on Earth. Why doesn't he return home? Well, here's the blurb:
When the Greek
god Cupid visits Verona, he foresees no problems uniting the Montague
and Capulet families. But when Elisabeth Capulet and Giovanni Montague's
love ends in tragedy, Elisabeth places a powerful curse not on just the
families, but Cupid himself. Unable to visit his wife Psyche, he sends
her letters detailing his efforts to undo the curse. Can the two of them
save another generation of lovers, or will Cupid and Psyche be forever
parted?
Currently "Letters to Psyche" is only available on Amazon, though I do plan to remove it from the Select program after three months. In the meantime, hmmm, isn't there a love-themed holiday coming up in the near future?
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