The Beauty Bride in Italian is a FR33 Series Starter!

There are new editions of the Jewels of Kinfairlie available in Italian, and the Italian edition of The Beauty Bride (Un amore da favola) is now a free series starter. Right now, the first three books in the series are available in their new editions – the Italian edition of The Ballad of Rosamunde and of The Renegade’s Heart will be published in new editions in May. The reviews from the previous editions aren’t showing up on these new ones so far, so if you reviewed any of these books in the past, it would be lovely if you could post your review again. 🙂

Un amore da Favola, the Italian translation of The Beauty Bride, a medieval romance by Claire Delacroix

Più preziosi dell’oro sono i Gioielli di Kinfairlie, e solo l’uomo più degno può combattere per ottenere il loro amore…Il Laird di Kinfairlie ha cinque sorelle nubili, ognuna a suo modo una gemma. E lui non ha altra scelta se non quella di trovare loro un marito il più presto possibile.

Il cuore di lady Madeline non è in vendita… Soprattutto per un famigerato fuorilegge come Rhys FitzHenry. Eppure, la sua mano è stata venduta esattamente a quest’uomo, un guerriero stanco di combattere e con una taglia sulla testa. Una fanciulla più docile avrebbe obbedito alla volontà del Laird e accettato in silenzio il proprio destino. Solo che Madeline, che non è mai stata obbediente, decide di scappare, senza neanche immaginare che Rhys possa inseguirla.

Lei non si aspetta che quell’uomo taciturno la corteggi raccontandole storie stravaganti, ognuna delle quali rivelerà le cicatrici che circondano la sua anima. E nemmeno si aspetta che Rhys, pur celando gelosamente i propri sentimenti, possa mettere in pericolo il suo cuore.

Quando il passato di Rhys arriva a minacciare il suo futuro, Madeline decide di credere alla sua innocenza, rischiando la sua stessa vita per abbandonarsi ad una passione più preziosa persino della gemma più rara.

“Un entusiasmante romanzo medievale!”Publishers Weekly

Un amore da favola è un romance storico con una buona dose di avventura, ricco di storie e leggende, un viaggio di una coppia frizzante e appassionata che inizia a conoscersi.”—Maika Medici

Delizioso ed avvincente, questo romanzo scorre facilmente e ci appassiona con tutti i protagonisti, che per non spoilerare troppo ho preferito non nominare. Ognuno di loro gioca un bel ruolo, come dinanzi ad una scacchiera, e vengono mossi i fili giusti per una romantica e magica storia  che porta la firma di una delle più brave scrittrici di romanzi storici e fantasy. Rhys, comunque, resta il mio preferito: come racconta le storie lui… nessuno!“—Il Libro Sel Como’ du Meg

Multi-Author Kobo Plus Promotion Today!

Today’s the day for the YOLO with KOBO Plus romance binge multi-author promotion!

YOLO with KOBO Plus Romance Binge one-day multi-author event April 25, 2025

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.

Visit the KOBO Plus Romance Binge website.

Visit KOBO’s landing page.

eBook Delivery from my Online Store

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:

Hazel & Honeysuckle order receipt

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:

BookFunnel email, fulfilling ebook order

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.

BookFunnel download page

When you click GET MY BOOK, a pop-up window opens:

BookFunnel get my book pop-up window

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.

Get The Christmas Conquest at Hazel & Honeysuckle Press

Romance Book Blast

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!

Romance Book Blast April 2025

You’ll find The Christmas Conquest and The Beauty Bride among today’s offerings.

Shop the Romance Book Blast.

Booksigning in Kitchener May 3

Bookfair in Kitchener on May 3, 2025

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

Learn more.
(That’s a FB link for the event.)

And here’s the link for my online store. You can choose the May 3 event from the list of Local Pickup locations in the cart when you check out.

Buy directly from the author at Hazel & Honeysuckle Press and get your book signed