I write romance novels, including medieval romances as Claire Delacroix, and contemporary and paranormal romances as Deborah Cooke. I also am an avid knitter and sewist.
Today’s the day for the YOLO with KOBO Plus romance binge multi-author promotion!
KOBO Plus is a subscription program, much like Kindle Unlimited – you pay a flat monthly fee when you subscribe and can read as much as you want. The big difference on my end is that books don’t have to be exclusive to KOBO to be enrolled in the program, which makes it win-win.
This promotion features a lot (over 260) romances (both ebooks and audiobooks) that are enrolled in KOBO Plus right now. Although the promotion is inspired by the BookWorms promo, in this case, the books are enrolled in KOBO Plus for more than one day. That said, it’s a great way for you to discover new authors, new series and new reads, and KOBO has their own landing page in support of that.
For this promotion, the organizer has a landing page (KOBOPlusRomanceBinge.com) and KOBO builds a landing page on their own site to support the sale. This is interesting as they support different categories – the KOBO site also includes the book covers, while the organizer site has a short blurb and keywords. Either may be a better choice for you, depending what helps you decide to try a book.
You’ll find the audiobook for The Wolf & the Witch in audiobooks on both landing pages.
Yesterday, I participated in a multi-author promotion for free romances, and for the first time, I included download links for my online store. These promotions offer readers links to the various retail portals, but I added Hazel & Honeysuckle Press to my links – since my books are free there, too. (And some of the portals don’t offer my books free in some territories.)
I noticed last night that not everyone who “bought” a free book actually downloaded it. Let’s take a look at the delivery process at Hazel & Honeysuckle Press. I use BookFunnel for delivery.
When you buy a book in my store, regardless of the price, you need to check out. On that page, you provide an email address.
After your purchase is completed, you’ll get an email from the store. It comes from Hazel & Honeysuckle Press, and the subject line is: Your Hazel & Honeysuckle Press order has been received!
When you open the email, it looks like this:
You will then get an email from BookFunnel. It comes from the address: help@bookfunnel.com
For this transaction, the BF email literally came 1 minute after the H&H one.
If you don’t see the BF email within five minutes, look in your spam folder. Once you’ve whitelisted their email (i.e. marked it as not-spam) all future emails from them will be delivered directly to your box.
The subject line on the BF email is the book title. For this sale, it said: Here’s “Just Trouble – Alternate Cover” by Deborah Cooke
When you open the email, it looks like this:
I’ve put some yellow blocks over personal details. Three of them are the download code for this book for this transaction. The second one is the email address I used for the purchase.
So you can click that top link to be taken to the download page, which looks like this.
When you click GET MY BOOK, a pop-up window opens:
Choose your reader, then follow the directions to get the ebook onto your reading device of choice. It’s very straightforward, though it’s not as instant as buying from the same portal all the time. BF doesn’t know what device you have, so it presents all the options.
The other nice thing about BF is that it creates a BF library for all of your books obtained through BF – provided you always use the same email address. This means your books are available all the time (forever!) for you to move one to another device or reader. You have a back-up this way.
Why am I telling you all of this? Because a high percentage of people who “buy” books through my online store, even free downloads, don’t download their books. (I can check on the back end of BookFunnel that books have been downloaded.) So, I suspect that a lot of people either ignore that delivery email from BookFunnel, or their mailbox filters are sending it to the spam folder.
You have fourteen days to download your ebook before the link expires. BookFunnel will send you a reminder email just before it does expire.
The best way to fix this is to “buy” a free book from my online store and hunt down that BookFunnel email. You’ll only have to do it the once.
It’s time for another multi-author free book blast! Stuff your e-reader with a huge selection of romances. This is a great chance to find a new author or series!
I’ll be at this annual bookfair in Kitchener on May 3! I’ll be bringing the Dragon Diaries omnibus as well as the individual trade paperbacks, my new time travel romances, some Anne Stokes colouring books and my gemstone dragon jewellery. If you plan to attend and are looking for a specific book, please place a pre-order in my online store so I can have it ready for you.
Book Fair & Crafters Market Victoria Park Pavilion Kitchener, Ontario May 3, 2025 10:30 – 3:30
The Christmas Conquest, book one of the Ladies’ Essential Guide to the Art of Seduction series of Regency romances, is free through the end of May. If you haven’t begun this series yet, now’s the perfect opportunity – book six, The Duke’s Desire, will be published in May.
I’ve changed the price in my online store as well as at the retailers. Although I added the epilogue, Upon a Midnight Clear, into the book file a year and a half ago, it appears that Amazon is still delivering the original file. (People are still downloading the epilogue.) So, if you’d like both book and epilogue in one file, get the copy for your Kindle from my online store.
Also, I’m learning how to do cool things in the store – for example, if you put The Christmas Conquest in your cart, then go to your cart, you’ll see an offer to buy the rest of the series to date at a discounted price. This bundle will be delivered as individual books, but they’ll all be delivered at the same time. I really like this and will set up more of these offers in future.
The store is set up in Canadian dollars. It also detects the location of your ISP and will invite you to change the displayed currency based on that location. Instead of me setting territorial prices, they’ll be converted in real time. I’m curious to see how well that works out or whether it will need a tweak.
Love was not part of the plan when this marriage was arranged…
Rhys Bettencourt, Baron Trevelaine, had every intention of avoiding his family’s curse. An arranged marriage to a plain bluestocking of fortune should have ensured the provision of at least one heir. After all, it was beloved Bettencourt wives who always died in childbirth. But practical Catherine undermined her husband’s scheme by stealing his heart. The only way for Rhys to protect her is to deny them both physical satisfaction, against his own desires.
Catherine Carruthers was content to wed for practical considerations and accept an arranged marriage to please her family. Two years later, though, Catherine is certain that her dashing aristocrat of a husband regrets his choice and that her marriage will never be more. She accepts an invitation to Rockmorton Manor for Christmas to decide whether to leave Rhys and return to her father’s house. Upon arrival, though, Catherine discovers pages of sensual advice left in her room—as well as Rhys determined to convince her to stay. Can their marriage be saved?
Armed with information and with little to lose, Catherine embarks upon a campaign of seduction that Rhys is powerless to resist—even as he fears for Catherine’s fate if he surrenders to temptation. Caught between love and the wretched curse, can Rhys find a way to keep his cherished wife safely by his side?
Rhys and Catherine’s story has a bonus epilogue, which was originally available to my newsletter subscribers, called Upon a Midnight Clear. On September 28, 2023, the bonus epilogue was added into the ebook of The Christmas Conquest.
If you bought The Christmas Conquest after that date, you’ll get both.
If you bought The Christmas Conquest before that date, your portal of choice might offer an updated version, or you can download if from BookFunnel using the link below.
