Kathryn LeVeque has organized a multi-author promotion this month, with a grand prize of a $150 gift card and a second prize of a gift basket (which is available only to US residents.) Hop on over to the landing page for your chance to win!
You can enter through May 15.
To show our appreciation to YOU, our readers, some of your favorite Historical Romance authors (including me!) have banded together for an amazing Spring Fling g!veaway!
Grand pr!ze is a $150 Visa g!ft card and the second pr!ze is a basket full of author goodies (U.S. residents only! Sorry!)
Spring has sprung and your Ultimate HistRom authors are here to celebrate with you! No purchase necessary.
Psst – I sent a Blood Brothers spiral notebook for the gift basket – check my Knights & Rogues newsletter next week for your chance to win one directly from me. I’ll mail to US, CA, UK, CA, NZ, AU and EU. 🙂
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 650) romances 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.
I’m switching things up with my free series starters. First-in-series-free can be a really good way to find new readers, but over time, it loses effectiveness.
The Beauty Bride (book one of the Jewels of Kinfairlie series) has been a free starter for a while, but that will end on April 30. On May 1, Rhys and Madeline’s story will return to full price. If you haven’t grabbed your copy yet, you might want to do that now.
I’m going to experiment with 99cent series starters for the next few months, so watch for those specials, starting in May.
One of the fun things about running a Kickstarter campaign for new editions is when all the goodies come in. Let’s have a look at most of the goodies and books for the Blood Brothers special editions campaign.
Last week, the first lot of books arrived. These were the trade paperbacks, and I’m so pleased with them. The matte finish is so velvety!
These editions have the new illustrations by Dar Albert. For the trade paperback, the covers are duplexed, which means the illustration is printed on the inside of the cover, like this:
The part of the illustration with the sword is on the inside back cover but I didn’t take pix ot it.
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 spiral notebooks featuring the new illustrations have also arrived.
And there are postcards. There’s a set of four of the new illustrations, and a set of four of the original cover art (with the guys alone). They all have the same reverse side which is shown at the bottom right.
Plus those big bookmarks have arrived. There’s a set of four of these: they all have the same reverse side with the original covers.
I’ve been packing boxes for the fulfillment of the Kickstarter. The hardcover editions have shipped to me, so I’ll show them to you once they arrive. I’ll pack the rest of the Kickstarter pledges then and the campaign will be done. I’ve also been making book charms with these new covers and will show you those with the hardcovers.
The spiral notebooks that are left are 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 books have the illustration on the cover, but don’t have the map or family trees inside.
I’m slowly getting organized after the completion of the Blood Brothers Kickstarter campaign for the new special editions. Yesterday, I realized I had two sample copies of The Hunter & the Heiress in need of homes.
These are the copies I ordered for the video. They have the new cover illustrations – on the case laminate of the hardcover, and duplexed on the inside of the cover for the trade paperback – but don’t have the other content added to the book interiors during the campaign. There is no map and there are no family trees. Still, they’re very pretty books and should be on someone’s shelf. 🙂
You can find them in the store under New Arrivals. There’s only one of each, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.
Also, I added spiral notebooks to the campaign. There’s a set of four, each one featuring one illustration. I ordered some of The Hunter & the Heiress and am really pleased with how well they came out.
They’re 5.5″ x 8.5″ with 80 lined pages inside. The cover has a nice velvety finish.
As is so often the way with printing, it made sense to round up my order quantities, a little above the actual quantity needed for the KS fulfillment. So, I’ll be adding these to the online store, too. The notebooks for The Hunter & the Heiress have already been added to the New Arrivals there.
Claire Delacroix 