My Quarterly Book Box at Ream

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Deborah Cooke

Bride Quest HC Book Club by Claire Delacroix available at Ream

Today, my Bride Quest book box is available for order at Ream.

Each quarter or so, I’ll offer a book box via Ream. This first one includes signed 25th anniversary commemorative hardcover editions of all six Bride Quest books. You can sign up for this tier – actually, there are two options, one with just the hard covers and one with the hard covers and the ebooks – from now through November 24. You’ll be billed three times, once each month for the price on the tier. (Once in November, once in December and once in January.) The books will ship in the new year, likely in February. It’s like an installment plan for the special editions, plus you’ll get your books signed and with goodies. These bundles won’t have as many goodies as the Kickstarter editions, just FYI, but it’s a second chance to get the signed editions.

How does Ream work? From the subscriber side, you have to create an account, then you have the option of setting your notifications and preferences. When you subscribe to a tier, you’ll be billed immediately for the first month. That day will become your billing date, and you’ll be billed every month on that date for that subscription, unless you choose to cancel it. Ream takes care of all sales taxes (which I love) so it’s possible that there will be sales tax on your subscriptions on top of the tier price. The prices are set in USD.

Sign up for the Bride Quest book box on my Claire Delacroix Ream page.

Knights & Rogues Book Club – Today!

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Deborah Cooke

Knights & Rogues Book Club by Claire Delacroix available at Ream

My Knights & Rogues Book Club launches today at Ream.

Each month, subscribers will have access to four stories (mostly full-length books) as we work through my various series. This tier is like a lending library or a streaming service – subscribers have access to the content for 30 days. It’s incredible I have enough completed books to fill an entire year but there you go. LOTS of books to read!

I’m looking forward to the community forum discussions on my books and will be popping in there each week. This is still evolving but maybe we’ll make a regular Q&A or a scheduled time for me to be there. One fun thing about Ream is that it supports features like reader polls, so we can figure out what’s most appealing to everyone. I’ll also be able to share additional resources for each series, like Pinterest links, blog posts about research, character lists or family trees, so that we can immerse ourselves in that world for the month or so.

Here’s the planned schedule of books for the first year:

November 2023 – The Bride Quest (The Princess, The Damsel, The Heiress and The Countess.)

December 2023 – The Bride Quest continued (The Beauty, The Temptress and Easter at Airdfinnan and Christmas at Tullymullagh).

January 2024 – The Rogues of Ravensmuir (The Rogue, The Scoundrel and The Warrior) and the beginning of The Jewels of Kinfairlie (The Beauty Bride).

February 2024 – More Jewels of Kinfairlie (The Rose Red Bride, The Snow White Bride and The Ballad of Rosamunde) and the beginning of The True Love Brides (The Renegade’s Heart).

March 2024 – More of The True Love Brides (The Highlander’s Curse, The Frost Maiden’s Kiss and The Warrior’s Prize) and the beginning of The Brides of Inverfyre (The Mercenary’s Bride).

April 2024 – More of The Brides of Inverfyre (The Runaway Bride and The Stolen Bride) plus Unicorn Bride and Pearl Beyond Price.

May 2024 – The Champions of St. Euphemia (The Crusader’s Bride, The Crusader’s Heart, The Crusader’s Kiss, and The Crusader’s Vow.)

June 2024 – The finale of The Champions of St. Euphemia (The Crusader’s Handfast) and Rogues & Angels (One Knight Enchanted, One Knight’s Return and One Knight’s Desire).

July 2024 – Blood Brothers (The Wolf & the Witch, The Hunter & the Heiress, The Dragon & the Damsel, and The Scot & the Sorceress).

August 2024 – the time travels (The Last Highlander, The Moonstone, Once Upon a Kiss and Love Potion #9).

September 2024 – The Brides of North Barrows (Something Wicked This Way Comes, A Duke by Any Other Name, A Baron for All Seasons and A Most Inconvenient Earl).

October 2024 – The Ladies’ Essential Guide to the Art of Seduction (The Christmas Conquest, The Masquerade of the Marchioness, The Widow’s Wager and The Hellion’s Heart).

It’s possible that there will be changes as we go – will there be a fourth Rogues & Angels book by June? – so be prepared for some tweaks. Either way, you’ll read a lot of medieval romance!

The book club costs $5 US per month.

Sign up for the Knights & Rogues Book Club on my Claire Delacroix Ream page here.

New Blood Brothers HardCover Editions

Posted on October 30, 2023 by Deborah Cooke

My next Kickstarter campaign will feature new hardcover editions of the four Blood Brothers medieval Scottish romances. The current hardcover editions are large print. These will be regular print. The campaign will launch on February 13 and run through the 24th.

These special hardcover editions will have new covers. The new dust jackets are done, and today’s post is to show them off. Here they are!

The Wolf & the Witch, book one of the Blood Brothers series of medieval Scottish romances by Claire Delacroix, special hardcover edition

The Hunter & the Heiress, book two of the Blood Brothers series of medieval Scottish romances by Claire Delacroix, special hardcover edition

The Dragon & the Damsel, book three of the Blood Brothers series of medieval Scottish romances by Claire Delacroix, special hardcover edition

The Scot & the Sorceress, book four of the Blood Brothers series of medieval Scottish romances by Claire Delacroix, special hardcover edition

Aren’t they pretty? I think they’ll look gorgeous with a matte finish.

Next up, the couples for the case laminates. I’ll show you those images when they’re done.

There will be postcards of the new images, bookmarks, coloring pages, stickers and a MAP, as well as a Blood Brothers world guide in ebook, all available in this upcoming Kickstarter campaign.

The preview page is live at Kickstarter now, and you can follow it to be notified when the campaign launches.

Follow the Blood Brothers campaign.

Blood Brothers medieval romances new hardcovers coming to Kickstarter in February 2024

Bargain Print Books

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Deborah Cooke

Every once in a while, Amazon discounts print copies of books. I’m not sure why this happens, but it’s a great opportunity to get a print edition at a good price. Quantities are undoubtedly limited, so once the copies are gone, they’re gone. This morning, I noticed these bargains on my books in the US store – I’ve linked each title to the product page for the book at Amazon.com:

A Most Inconvenient Earl, book four of the Brides of North Barrows series of Regency romance novellas by Claire Delacroix

A Most Inconvenient Earl mass market paperback for $3.30US

Something Wicked This Way Comes mass market paperback for $4.57US

The Temptress trade paperback for $6.43 US

The Heiress trade paperback for $7.48 US

The Beauty trade paperback for $7.34 US

The Crusader's Handfast, book five of the Champions of St. Euphemia series of medieval romances by Claire Delacroix

The Crusader’s Vow trade paperback for $3.71 US

The Crusader’s Heart trade paperback for $5.05 US

The Crusader’s Kiss trade paperback for $3.70 US

The Crusader’s Handfast trade paperback for $3.17 US

Discounted prices might be available in other geos – it looks as if some of them are available in CA, for example – but you’ll need to click through to see.

Edited to add – I hear that the trade paperbacks of The Rogue, The Scoundrel and One Knight Enchanted are also a good deal today. Happy shopping! 🙂

The Princess is 99¢

Posted on October 5, 2023 by Deborah Cooke

To support the promotion of The Beauty as a free read this month, I’ve just made The Princess a 99¢ read. The Beauty is book #5 of the Bride Quest, and of course, many people like to start at the beginning of the series.

I didn’t think of this until yesterday, and had difficulties making the price change at both Apple and KOBO. This morning, I made both of those changes, but the KOBO price change won’t take effect until tomorrow.

The Princess is 99¢ in the five major English-language geos – AU, CA, NZ, US and UK – through October 30.

The Princess, #1 of The Princess, #1 of the Bride Quest series of medieval romances by Claire Delacroix

Princess Brianna of Tullymullagh is determined to marry only for love—until her father’s holding is conquered and the king decrees that she must wed one of the victor’s sons. Thinking she can outwit this condition, Brianna issues a challenge: the son who brings her a gift that makes her laugh will win her hand.

Thus begins the Bride Quest of the three brothers Fitzgavin.

Burke and Rowan, knights both, ride out on Brianna’s quest, each intent upon triumph. Only Luc refuses to participate, for he knows that a princess had no place in the life of a battle-weary warrior like himself. Brianna is not inclined to accept his refusal—she tempts him and awakens his slumbering senses with her alluring beauty and her sweet kisses. Luc has sworn to lay down his sword forever—until he is the sole one who can defend the fair maiden who has claimed his shielded heart.

“Claire Delacroix is the queen of medieval romance! Reading The Princess is like sipping vintage wine—delectable!”
Rendezvous

USA Today Bestselling Title

Tropes for The Princess, book one of the Bride Quest series of medieval romances by Claire Delacroix

“Exquisite! A marvelously beautiful tale of love!”
Bell, Book & Candle

Buy The Princess ebook:

Winner
1998 Best Historical Romance
Colorado Romance Writers’ Award of Excellence

Finalist
1998 Best Historical Romance
Holt Medallion

Finalist
1998 Best Medieval Historical Romance
Romantic Times

“The essence of fairy tale, fable and legend!”
Romantic Times

“Delacroix captured me with the first sentence…and left me wanting more! Her musical style of writing transformed this story into a bard’s tale of knights, quests, mystery and love.”
All About Romance

“[Claire Delacroix] has a magical, lyrical style of writing that captures the reader from the first page. Add mysterious secret treasure, as well as several murders, to this wonderfully passionate romance and you have an exciting medieval that’s not to be missed.”
Old Book Barn Gazette

Buy Trade Paperback:

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Princess, I’ve created new editions of the Bride Quest books, all of which will be available at retail portals in November 2023. There’s a new cover illustration for each book in the series, which will appear on the new mass market paperback and the new hardcover edition.

Here’s the pretty new cover illustration of Luc and Brianna: