My online store, Hazel & Honeysuckle Press, is open again, stocked up, and the links are rebuilt here on the website.
I do have some backlist print books to add to the store as well as some audiobook bundles, but that’s not a rush. You should find purple links everywhere here on the site, and links that work. 🙂
Phew! That’s a bit job done!
My online store, Hazel & Honeysuckle Press, is open again. Let’s throw confetti!
There’s still work to be done. Right now, there are print book listings (and the shipping calculator WORKS! More confetti please!) and there are pages for pre-orders for both Pages & Pleasures in April and Love & Romance in Toronto in May. I’ve added some specials to those pages, although you can pre-order any book in the store for pick-up at those shows.
There is also a pre-order for Kiss of Enchantment in its special hardcover edition, which will ship in June.
I still have to add the Dragonfire Novels, in both print and ebook. And I still have to create the delivery links with BookFunnel for ebooks and audiobooks. I’ll be working on that this week.
As I work my way through that job, I’ll be updating the links here on the site to the store. The new links will be purple instead of green – the green links will probably go 404 in the meantime.
But you can hop over to the store and browse.
My store is on the move, from WooCommerce back to Shopify.
For the moment, neither version is visible as the domain is being transferred. Once that’s done, I’ll need to rebuild all the links here on the site to the new store. The book delivery links at BookFunnel will have to be updated, too.
The new links will be purple, like this:
The old ones, which no longer work, were green.
The main reason for the change is that I could not get the shipping calculator to work on WooCommerce. It worked right away on Shopify. There are other things, but that was the big one.
I have most of the books loaded at Shopify, and the print ones are ready to be displayed (and shipped). Once the domain transfers, I’ll make the new store public, even as I work on rebuilding the ebook delivery links.
I’ll keep you updated on my progress!
I have put up the pre-orders for the special editions of The Champions of St. Euphemia, and the new Reader Companion, at my online store, Hazel & Honeysuckle Press.
These books begin to deliver from the store in February 2026.
You can pre-order them for pick up at the Pages & Pleasures event in Kitchener next spring, as well.
Of course, if you’d like them sooner (even to pick up at Ignited by Books Author Event in the fall) you can order them through the Kickstarter campaign that will run through the end of July – and you’ll get extra goodies through the campaign, too.
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.
Claire Delacroix 