I’ve created a video of the new editions of my time travel and magical romances and you can watch it now.
You can order these new editions through my current Kickstarter campaign.
Click through to see the campaign. It runs through February 7.
Woo-hoo! I launched the Kickstarter campaign for the new editions of my time travel romances yesterday and it’s vastly exceeded my expectations! We’re off to a great start, so be sure you don’t miss out.
The campaign features the new edition of Love Potion #9, and you can also order the new ebook or trade paperback of Once Upon a Kiss, The Moonstone and The Last Highlander. The new editions are available for pre-order at retailers for October delivery, but backers of the campaign will get their copies early.
In addition, each book ordered through the campaign has a coordinating tip sheet, which will be added to the front of the book, and a bookplate – the books will ship directly from the printer, and I’ll sign and mail the bookplates separately.
Here’s a digital mock-up of the tipsheet and bookplate for Love Potion #9:
You can only get this addition through the Kickstarter campaign.
There are other rewards exclusive to the campaign, like a limited number of vellum inserts featuring the original cover art for Love Potion #9 by Judy York, and a downloadable tarot deck to print and color.
Here’s the tarot deck I created from the PDF file:
You can see that I also created a box for the cards, which you can print and assemble.
There are more goodies in the works, too, including a bookmark.
Youc an also order the Kickstarter editions from previous campaigns in the Add-ons for this campaign, including the Dragonfire Novels omnibus editions, the Blood Brothers special editions and the Bride Quest special editions..
Click through to see the campaign. It runs through February 7.
I’ll be creating pretty new hardcover editions of The Champions of St. Euphemia series of medieval romances in 2025. (Things are in the works now!) They’ll be available first at Kickstarter, with some fun swag, then subsequently will be exclusive to Kickstarter and my online store. One of the additions to the series will be a map, which I’m very excited about. (I love maps.)
You’ll also be able to order other special edition hardcovers from previous Kickstarter campaigns in this campaign – for The Bride Quest and for Blood Brothers.
Follow the campaign here to be notified at launch.
As you probably have guessed, I’ve been working on a new medieval romance series and now I have a tentative schedule and release plan. It’ll be a trilogy of medieval Scottish fantasy romances, which will launch next year.
Each book will be available first via a Kickstarter campaign, in ebook and trade paperback. I plan for the KS campaign for book one to be next winter, maybe March or April, because I want to have the book written first. There will also be some campaign goodies, and you’ll be able to order the print editions from previous KS campaigns (for Blood Brothers and the Bride Quest), as well. The first book will be on pre-order at the retailers at that time, to deliver at least six months after the KS campaign ends. I’m thinking it will be a December release.
So, at KS, you’ll be able to get the book early, get your print copy signed and get campaign goodies exclusive to the campaign.
I’ll plan for the second book’s Kickstarter campaign to be later next year, possibly not with delivery of print books available for the holidays. (Things get very slow at the printers due to volume from October onward.) In that campaign, you’ll be able to get an early copy of book two in ebook or trade paperback, and also add book one if you missed it, and snag some campaign goodies for your hoard.
The Kickstarter campaign for the third book will be in 2026. I haven’t decided yet whether the hardcover editions of all three books will be part of that campaign or a separate campaign. I always want to read and love a book before I commit to having it in a collectible hardcover on my shelf, but your view may be different. We have time to work that out!
In between, there may be a Kickstarter campaign for new print editions of The Champions of St. Euphemia series in trade paperback with duplex covers and in hard cover with a dust jacket. Like the Blood Brothers‘ Kickstarter editions, these will have the illustration of the couple on the inside of the trade paperback cover and on the case laminate of the hardcover. The outside of the trade paperback and the dust jacket on the hardcover will have the type.
These illustrations are already done as they’re on the current editions. I love them to pieces and want to celebrate them with the new editions. I’m also still on the hunt for someone to draw a map. The timing of that campaign depends upon my workload and how things go.
So, my tentative 2024 schedule looks like this:
October – The Bluestocking’s Bargain (Pre-order available now)
March – Kickstarter for book one of the new series
April – The Duke’s Desire
June – Kickstarter for The Champions of St. Euphemia
October – Kickstarter for book two of the new series
December – publication date at the portals for book one of the new series
In 2026, book two of the new series will release at the portals, and there will be a Kickstarter for book three of the new series.
Clearly, there should be some additional hist-rom releases next summer and fall, but we’ll keep things a little loose as yet. Those Kickstarters can chew up a lot of time, but I’m hoping they get easier. I worked out my writing schedule and things were tight at the end of 2024. To keep The Duke’s Desire from sliding to May, I made it book #6 of that series and put the planned book 6 (which had been slated for January) on the back burner. I think we’re all more interested in the duke and Esmeralda’s story, so that one has to be finished up.
On the other side of my office, I have a new contemporary romance series launching in February. My current plan is for The Carpe Diem Café to have three releases next year: Just Trouble in February, book two probably in June and book three probably in October. I have a lot of writing on my schedule and I’m excited about all of these stories.
I’ll tell you more about the new medieval fantasy romance trilogy when the Kickstarter campaign is in preview and can be followed.
A bit belatedly, I realized that I hadn’t shown you the hard cover special editions of the Blood Brothers books. We’ll fix that today. 🙂
These editions have the new illustrations by Dar Albert. I showed off the trade paperbacks with their duplex covers (which have the illustrations on the inside of the cover) in this post. For the hard cover, there’s a dust jacket with the type and the illustration appears on the case laminate, like this digital mock-up to the right. Both have a matte finish that feels really luxe to me.
Let’s look at the actual books now that I have a few on my shelf. Here are the four books with their dust jackets:
Here are the fronts of the case laminates:
And the backs of the case laminates:
These special edition interiors include some different typographic elements, but also include the Blood Brothers map and family trees. The family tree for Jean Le Beau is in all four books, then each book has a family tree for the hero and for the heroine. Those elements are included in all of the special editions – ebook, trade paperback and hardcover.
The Blood Brothers map is included in these editions, too, and we split it so details wouldn’t vanish into the gutter.
Finally, there’s a list of acknowledgements in these editions to thank all the Kickstarter backers who helped bring these editions to life. There are more on the other side of the page.
You can pre-order signed copies of the print books in my online store – that will be for the first fulfillment after the Kickstarter campaign, and I’ll place that order in June. I’ll include the Blood Brothers bookmarks with these orders, too.
The spiral notebooks that are left are also available in the store now. They won’t be restocked, so once they’re gone, that’s that. You’ll find them in New Arrivals there, as well as the discounted sample copies of The Hunter & the Heiress that I ordered in advance of the campaign. Those two sample books have the illustration on the cover, but don’t have the map or family trees inside.
Claire Delacroix 