Archived Preorder Incentives & Swag: 2025 Apr-May
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This archive preserves information about book preorder incentive campaigns that were available in Q2 2025.
Book swag offers are temporary and often disappear after promotions end, making it difficult for collectors and researchers to track these rare, limited bonus items. This page serves as a historical resource, documenting incentive offer campaigns that were active during this period.
For campaigns you can redeem now, visit the current incentives page.
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April 2025
The Velvet Fix – Rachel Kaye
Offer: Art print
Availability: Burn Bright Books
Expiry: Apr 29, 2025
Genre: Contemporary romance
“What’s a girl who hates attachment to do when she finds herself…getting attached?”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Burn Bright Books
The Floating World - Axie Oh
Offer: Art card
Availability: US & Canada
Expiry: Apr 28, 2025
“A lighthearted romantic fantasy reimagining the Korean legend of Celestial Maidens.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
When the Tides Held the Moon - Venessa Vida Kelley
Offer: Signed bookmark, sticker, art print
Availability: Participating Indies
Expiry: Apr 28, 2025
“Historical fantasy blends with epic romance at the turn of the 20th century in this unforgettable New York fairytale of queer identity and found family.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Participating Indies
Seeing Red – Bailey Hannah
Offer: Exclusive digital bonus scene (new content)
Availability: US only
Expiry: Apr 28, 2025
Genre: Adult Romance
“A straight-laced small-town sweetheart has a one-night fling with a local bad-boy cowboy, only to end up unexpectedly pregnant and forced into a no-strings co-parenting pact that might just break all their rules.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
My Best Friend's Honeymoon - Meryl Wilsner
Offer: Art print and signed bookplate + chance to win towel
Availability: US & Canada
Expiry: Apr 28, 2025
“Meryl Wilsner’s spicy romance, their first with a nonbinary lead, where two lifelong best friends go on a nonrefundable honeymoon together and discover sometimes to find a happily ever after, you just have to ask.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
Colton Gentry's Third Act - Jeff Zentner
Offer: “Honeysuckle Summer” song
Availability: US & Canada (paperbacks)
Expiry: Apr 27, 2025
“A down on his luck country musician who, in the throes of grief after a shocking loss, moves back home and rekindles a relationship with his high school sweetheart.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It - Emily Hauser
Offer: Tarot cards
Availability: UK
Expiry: Apr 23, 2025
“An epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece’s greatest legends, and the real heroes of those ancient epics, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | Waterstones | Blackwells
The Wrong Quarterback - C. R. Jane
Offer: Art print
Availability: The Last Chapter (US)
Expiry: Apr 21, 2025
“A star quarterback plays for keeps in the first book of a seductive dark-romance series.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from The Last Chapter
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto – Tiffany Yu
Offer: Art print and signed bookplate
Availability: Yu & Me (US Indie)
Expiry: Apr 21, 2025
“A practical and eye-opening guide that examines disability and ableism, unpacking biases and proposing real actions to help readers become active allies in building a more inclusive, disability-friendly world.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Yu & Me
The Starving Saints - Caitlin Starling
Offer: Character print and enamel pin
Availability: Copper Dog Books (US)
Expiry: Apr 19, 2025
“A transfixing fever dream of medieval horror following three women in a besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness under the spell of mysterious, godlike visitors.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Copper Dog Books
Beneath the Surface - Emily McIntire
Offer: Character cards.
Availability: US & Canada
Expiry: Apr 15 (book 4)
“Angsty second chance romance in interconnected standalones in the Sugarlake series.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy Beneath the Stars from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
➤ Buy Beneath the Stands from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
➤ Buy Beneath the Hood from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
➤ Buy Beneath the Surface from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
Coded in Control – K.L. Hill
Offer: Signed bookplate
Availability: International
Expiry: Apr 15, 2025
“In the dark and prestigious world of Masquerave, monsters lurk around every corner, waiting to feed on your darkest desires and most sinful ambitions.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
Watch Me (Shatter Me) - Tahereh Mafi
Offer: Page overlays
Availability: US only
Expiry: Apr 14, 2025
“Lose yourself in this exhilarating return to the #1 global bestselling Shatter Me universe, the first book in a new series set ten years after the fall of The Reestablishment.
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
The Ashfire King - Chelsea Abdullah
Offer: Stickers (+ art print from Word bookstore)
Availability: International
Expiry: Apr 14, 2025
“A merchant and a prince trapped in the crumbling realm of jinn must figure out how to save one world to return to their own.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells
Love in 280 Characters or Less - Ravynn K. Stringfield
Offer: Author’s zine with personal character sketches, deleted excerpts, further reading, and a 280 inspired playlist
Availability: International
Expiry: Apr 14, 2025
“Black college student Sydney Ciara navigates academics, love, and the online space, in this coming-of-age romance told through her blog posts, messages, and more.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells
A Palace Near the Wind - Ai Jiang
Offer: Art cards and a signed bookplate
Availability: International
Expiry: Apr 14, 2025
“A richly inventive, brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells
Slayers, Every One of Us - Kristin Russo & Jenny Owne Youngs
Offer: Art cards and a signed bookplate
Availability: US & Canada
Expiry: Apr 7, 2025
“A memoir reflecting on heartbreak, perseverance, and life lessons learned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from the hosts of the hit podcast Buffering the Vampire Slayer.“
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
The Perfect Divorce - Jeneva Rose
Offer: Bookmark and stickers
Availability: Mysterious Galaxy (US)
Expiry: Apr 14, 2025
“Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
Coven - Soman Chainani, illustrated by Joel Gennari
Offer: Extended case files
Availability: US only
Expiry: Apr 8, 2025
“Need your magical crime solved? Call the Witch Coven.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
The Twisted Throne - Danielle L. Jensen
Offer: Double-sided art print
Availability: US & Canada
Expiry: Apr 8, 2025
“A princess promised in marriage falls for the wrong brother, and their forbidden love threatens to destroy a fragile peace between kingdoms.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
Roll for Love - M.K. England
Offer: Three custom stickers
Availability: US & Canada
Expiry: Apr 7, 2025
“A second-chance queer romance about two teens whose in-world D&D characters fall in love, but in IRL things are more complicated.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
The Gods Time Forgot - Kelsie Sheridan Gonzalez
Offer: Gold foiled bookmark, sticker, signed bookplate + art print if ordering from Books Are Magic
Availability: [not stated]Expiry: Apr 7, 2025
“Irish mythology collides with Gilded Age New York in this sweeping debut enemies-to-lovers historical romantasy.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells | Books Are Magic
Wildest Dreams (Forbidden Love) - L.J. Shen
Offer: Signed bookplate and sticker packet
Availability: Participating Indies
Expiry: Apr 7, 2025
“He’ll protect his best friend’s baby sister from anything…other than himself.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Participating Indies
Proclaimer - Megan Schaulis
Offer: Character card
Availability: US only
Expiry: Apr 7, 2025
“He’ll protect his best friend’s baby sister from anything…other than himself.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Blackwells
Nainai’s Mountain - Livia Blackburne, illustrated by Joey Chou
tOffer: Bookmark and signed bookplate. Orders from participating Indies also get an art print.
Availability: International, library requetss included
Expiry: Apr 7, 2025
“A Taiwanese-American girl is nervous about visiting Taiwan— until her paternal grandmother, her Nainai, takes her on a mountain-climbing adventure and shows her its wonders.”
➤ Promotion link and further details
➤ Buy from Amazon | B&N | Waterstones | Blackwells