Today’s the day! My Kickstarter campaign has launched, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Princess with new mass market and hard cover editions of all six Bride Quest medieval romances.
Visit the Kickstarter campaign.
There’s a new cover illustration for each book. That illustration is the image on the mass market edition. It’s also the case laminate on the hard cover, which has a dust jacket similar to the existing trade paperback. These new print editions will be available at retailers in November – the pre-order links for the two new editions of The Princess are at the bottom of this post – but you can get yours early and signed or personalized during this Kickstarter campaign. There’s also swag that will be available only during the Kickstarter campaign.
The two new editions be available in my next Kickstarter campaign, running from today through June 10. After that, you’ll have to wait until November to add to your keeper shelf.
Here’s the pretty new cover illustration of Luc and Brianna:
Here are all four current editions of The Princess: from left, the ebook, the 25th anniversary commemorative mass market edition with new cover art, the current trade paperback edition, and the 25th anniversary commemorative hard cover edition at right.
The new hardcover editions are really pretty. They have a dust jacket similar to the current trade paperback – but with the new seal for the anniversary editions. But instead of a plain case, these books are case-laminated, which means there will be an illustration on the actual book cover. The idea is to evoke those stepback covers we knew and loved. You get BOTH covers with the hardcover.
Here’s a photograph of the actual book, because I ordered a copy to check it out myself. In this picture, I’ve removed the front of the dust jacket and you can see the case laminate. The illustration continues around the back without type – there’s just the bar code on the back.
The commemorative print editions will include a new letter from me and the hardcover editions include the Bride Quest family trees. They’d be too small to read in the mass market edition, but you can download them free right here and print them out.
The trade paperback and the ebook editions will remain as they are.
There will be similar new editions of the other five books, and they’ll be revealed during the Kickstarter campaign. The new cover for The Damsel will be revealed there tomorrow and I’ll show it here on Wednesday.
There also will be a new bonus epilogue to catch up with the family called Christmas at Tullymullagh, which will be included in the new print editions of The Heiress. It will also be available in ebook in November from the retailers – the pre-order will go up once I have a cover.
Since we have all of these cover reveals, there’s a schedule for the Kickstarter campaign. I’ll also share the covers here on the blog.
Get them early.
Get them signed or personalized.
Get the swag.
You can also pre-order the new editions for November delivery from your favorite retailers. The links are live now for The Princess. The other books are formatted and loaded, and will set up for pre-order after their cover reveals at Kickstarter.
Order the 25th anniversary commemorative hard cover edition of The Princess for November 20 publication:
Order the 25th anniversary commemorative mass market paperback of The Princess for November 20 publication:
Claire Delacroix 