My next Kickstarter campaign will feature new hardcover editions of the four Blood Brothers medieval Scottish romances and will run in February 2024. We already had a peek at the dust jackets for the new editions in this blog post. (They’re also on the landing page for the Blood Brothers series.) And we saw the new cover illustration for the case laminate of The Hunter & the Heiress in this blog post, the one for The Dragon & the Damsel in this post and the one for The Wolf & the Witch in this post.

Today, we’re having a peek at the new illustration for The Scot & the Sorceress:

I love this illustration of Nyssa and Murdoch!

Here’s a digital mock-up of how the book will look when printed, with the dust jacket on the left and the case laminate (which is underneath the dust jacket) on the right:

The exciting thing about these new illustrations is that they’ll also be available on new trade paperback editions. For the first time, I’m creating trade paperbacks with duplex covers – that means the inside of the cover will be printed with the new illustration. The outside of these trade paperbacks will look like the dust jackets for the new hardcovers. I’ve ordered copies of the new editions for The Hunter & the Heiress and will show them to you as soon as they arrive, but here are digital mock-ups of the trade paperbacks with duplex covers:

This means that there’s a more economical option to add these books to your keeper shelf. The trade paperbacks with the duplex cover will be available either signed, or dropshipped from the printer. For US addresses, there will be no extra postage charge on the dropshipped books. The new hardcovers will only be available signed. This gives me the chance to make sure that each book is perfect before it’s sent on its way.

The preview page for the Blood Brothers campaign is live at Kickstarter now, and you can follow it to be notified when the campaign launches. February 12 is the big day!

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