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Kickstarter Campaign is Funded!

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15th anniversary hardcover omnibus editions of the Dragonfire Novels available at Kickstarter December 27, 2022 to January 7, 2023

The Kickstarter campaign for hard cover omnibus editions of the Dragonfire Novels has reached its funding threshold! 

::throws confetti:: 

What does this mean? 

1. The four hard cover omnibus editions will definitely be published, which is extremely exciting, and

2. We have two stretch goals… 

digital wallpaper of art from Serpent's Kiss offered through the Dragonfire Novels Kickstarter campaign 2022

The first stretch goal is to reach 25 backers in total. (Right now, there are 16.) They can be at the $1 pledge level, but when we reach that threshold, all backers at all levels (even the $1 pledge level) will get the digital wallpaper of the cover image from Serpent’s Kiss, sized for both desktop and phone. That’s it in the image above. 

The Roman Line I Family tree for the Pyr in Deborah Cooke's Dragonfire series of paranormal romances

The second stretch goal is to reach $2500 CA of pledges in total. (Right now, the campaign is sitting at just over $1900 CA of funding.) Once we reach that threshold, I’ll have the Dragonfire family trees printed on 6×9″ postcards. There will be a set of 12 postcards altogether, and they’ll be added to the Book Worm swag pack. They’ll also be included with all SIGNED omnibus editions. Above is the working version of the first of the family trees, for The Roman Line I. These family trees will be similar to the ones you can download from my website, but in color, and printed on postcards.

There’s one other change this morning – I’ve added a new reward, which is an early ebook copy of Kiss of Enchantment. This will be the next Dragonfire Novel but won’t be published at the portals until November 2023. How can there be another Dragonfire Novel after the Dragon’s Tail Wars have ended? In the Dragon Legion Novellas, nine Pyr were left in other places and times by the darkfire crystal. Drake and his men assumed those lost warriors were pursuing their firestorms. Now, we’re going to find out. Kiss of Enchantment is Orion’s story – you might remember him leaving the group in Kiss of Darkness. He was following a spark, and we’re going to see where it led him. 🙂 By backing this tier at Kickstarter, you’ll get to read Orion’s book early.

If you’ve already supported the campaign, thank you very much for doing so! If you haven’t, here’s your chance to add these enormous hardcover collectors’ editions to your keeper shelf, to have your name included in the acknowledgements and to support my dragon shifters. Come on over and take a look at the reward tiers to choose the one that suits you best.

Here’s the link.

New Dragonfire Family Trees at Kickstarter

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Time for another weekly update on my upcoming Kickstarter campaign. Tick tock – it won’t be long until we launch! You can see the first of my special hard cover editions in last week’s blog post and learn more about the Kickstarter campaign in this earlier blog post. Here’s last week’s post about swag.

I’ve wanted for a long time to create a set of family trees for the Pyr that are prettier than the black-and-white ones you can download free from my site and print out yourself. This campaign is a great opportunity to do that. These will be printed on 6×9″ postcards and there will be a set of twelve of them. Here’s a peek at the art for one of them, which may still be revised a bit:

The Roman Line I Family tree for the Pyr in Deborah Cooke's Dragonfire series of paranormal romances

The layout of this one is similar to the one you can download, but it’s in colour. (I’ve rearranged some of the others.) The Pyr who have turned Slayer are in green, and those whose stories are told in the books are in pinky-mauve (like Marco, here) with the book cover displayed beside the couple. There’s more colour coding on different pages – the members of the original Council of Seven are colour-coded, for example, where they appear. The reverse side of each card will have the Dragonfire logo. I like these a lot and hope you do, too!

Kickstarter also encourages incremental goals to build momentum over the course of the campaign. These family tree postcards will be offered as a stretch goal. That means funding will have to reach a specified amount for me to go ahead and get these printed. If they’re funded, the set of postcards will be added to all of the tiers that include all four omnibus editions signed by me (those tiers get all the swag) and also to the Book Worm swag pack. The Book Worm swag pack includes all the shiny things and is ideal for those of you who already have all the books in the format you want, or who prefer digital books to print ones.

The campaign launches on December 27 and will run for several weeks.

Here’s the link to follow the campaign.

Kickstarter Editions Swag

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Time for another weekly update on my upcoming Kickstarter campaign. Tick tock – it won’t be long until we launch!

One of the fun things about Kickstarter is that it allows (or even encourages) the creation of limited time offers, either with book editions like these omnibus hardcover editions of the Dragonfire Novels, or with swag. You can see the first of my special hard cover editions in last week’s blog post and learn more about the Kickstarter campaign in this earlier blog post.

There are Early Bird goals at Kickstarter, which are bonus offers for people who commit to a reward tier early. I have three Early Bird goals on this campaign.

First, the four tote bags that I showed you a few weeks ago are Early Bird rewards for the first four people who order the complete set of all four omnibus editions signed by me.

Dragonfire zippered tote bag offered as an early bird bonus in Deborah Cooke's Dragonfire omnibus editions campaign
Dragonfire zippered tote bag offered as an early bird bonus in Deborah Cooke's Dragonfire omnibus editions campaign

Secondly, there’s a dragon bookmark with beads and charms added to it. I haven’t created these yet, but you can see the base bookmarks below and the dragon charms I’ve already chosen for them. There are four purple ones and ten gold ones and they’ll have book charms on them, too. These are rewards for the first bookings of the highest tier, which includes all four omnibus editions and a signed copy of Here Be Dragons (and more).

Dragonfire bookmark parts, to be assembled by Deborah Cooke

There’s also an Early Bird bonus for the Book Worm swag pack – the first twenty sold include a dragon ball pendant and a Dragonfire book charm. There are lots of book charms here, all of which still need to be drilled and have their hardware added.

Dragonfire book charms and dragon ball gemstone necklaces

These are tough to photograph since everything is shiny and reflects the light. Here’s another picture of the gemstone dragon balls with a helpful assistant from my office. I only use black satin cords on them now, btw.

New dragon swag from Deborah Cooke

Here’s an older picture of the book charms, so you can see how big they are. They’re really cute!

Finished Book Charm by Deborah Cooke

I also have gemstone beaded bracelets with dragon charms, which will work their way into the campaign at some point. The pink and olive ones are dragon’s eye agate with black jaspar. The black ones are striped agate with quartzite.

Gemstone dragon bracelets made by Deborah Cooke

Of course, I have a few surprises planned, too. 🙂

The campaign launches on December 27 and will run for several weeks – and then all these goodies will be gone!

Here’s the link to follow the campaign.

Kickstarter Editions Sneak Peek

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I’m pretty excited about the 15th anniversary omnibus hard cover editions of Dragonfire that will be available at Kickstarter starting later this month, so I thought I’d give you a weekly update each Friday until we launch.

Last week, the sample copy of Dragonfire Quest, the first hardcover omnibus edition, arrived. I was so excited by this huge book that we made our first video EVER. I need to redo it with better lighting and captions, but I was finishing The Masquerade of the Marchioness this week. You can see the book in this video all the same and I’ll make a prettier one next week.

Here’s the video on YouTube.

The campaign for the omnibus editions launches on December 27. Right now, you can sign up for Kickstarter and ask to be notified when the campaign launches.

Here’s the link.