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The Ladies’ Essential Guide Book Club

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The Ladies' Essential Guide to the Art of Seduction Book Club by Claire Delacroix available at Ream

My book club for The Ladies’ Essential Guide to the Art of Seduction launches today at Ream!

Beginning today, this series will be published at Ream in two installments per week. You’ll get one chapter each Monday and one each Thursday, beginning with The Christmas Conquest. We’ll work our way through the three existing books, then The Hellion’s Heart (and the rest of the series) will be available first at Ream. Subscribers will also have access to a community forum to discuss the books as well as be able to read all four books in the Brides of North Barrows series (set in the same fictional realm) at leisure.

This subscription costs $5 US per month.

Sign up for the Ladies’ Essential Guide Book Club on my Claire Delacroix Ream page.

My Quarterly Book Box at Ream

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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!

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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.

Knights & Rogues Book Club

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Knights & Rogues Book Club by Claire Delacroix available at Ream

Yesterday, I told you a bit about my new Ream subscriptions. Today, I thought we’d talk a bit more about my Knights & Rogues Book Club, which will be launch at Ream beginning November 1.

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.

Follow my Claire Delacroix Ream page here.

My Stories at Ream

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Ream is a portal designed for authors to deliver content by subscription to their readers. I’ve been setting up my accounts there (one for Deborah and one for Claire) and will be launching my subscriptions in November. This makes now a good time to explain what will be happening over there.

In a way, Ream is like Patreon or Substack – or many other similar portals – in that readers subscribe to a specific tier of content provided by a creator. It might be an essay a month; it might be a chapter a week of a serialized story; it might be early access to a new book. Ream is specificially designed for fiction, though, so that (for example) it’s easy to read serialized content in order. I also like the interface. The other fun thing about Ream is that it creates a community forum behind the paywall – when you subscribe to a tier, you have access to a forum where you can discuss the story with other readers or ask questions of the author. There can also be additional content available to subscribers there, like family trees and glossaries.

There are many possibilities with a site like Ream, but I’ll be concentrating on three different strategies there.

Knights & Rogues Book Club by Claire Delacroix available at Ream

The Book Club
I have a lot of completed content and sometimes people find that daunting. My Knights & Rogues Book Club will be launch at Ream beginning November 1. 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 – subscribers have access to the content for 30 days. We’ll start with the Bride Quest. (I’m kind of amazed that I have enough completed books to fill an entire year!)

Bride Quest HC Book Club by Claire Delacroix available at Ream

The Book Box
Each quarter or so, I’ll offer a book box via Ream. The first one will be signed 25th anniversary commemorative hardcover editions of all six Bride Quest books. You’ll be able to sign up for the book box for a specified interval – this one will be three weeks in November – then you’ll be billed three times. The books will ship in the new year. It’s kind of 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 will offer a second chance for readers to get the signed editions. (This one isn’t published to the Ream page yet.)

The Ladies' Essential Guide to the Art of Seduction Book Club by Claire Delacroix available at Ream

New Stories
Under this model, you’ll get early access to a story that hasn’t been published yet. It’s a first peek! The story will be delivered in installments, like a serial, then when it’s completed, subscribers will get the ebook of that story on publication. Some authors share early drafts this way, but I’m too much of a control freak for that. The story will be done before it is delivered via Ream – subscribers will just see it early. I’ll be continuing the Ladies’ Essential Guide to the Art of Seduction this way. In December, we’ll launch with the existing books, then The Hellion’s Heart (and the rest of the series) will be available first at Ream.

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 will give you access to the available content and community forum. 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. So, subscribe to a tier today, and your billing date will be the 18th of every month. 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.

I’ll tell you more about the Knights & Rogues Book Club tomorrow. In the meantime, have a look at my Ream page. You can follow the page for free.

Visit my Claire Delacroix Ream page here.