Kickstarter Update - August 2025

Some of you might know that we're doing a showboat celebration printing of Ever Dark. It's been... a process. Here to talk about this process are Raythe and Sylvia Frost as they discuss making this a truly special edition. If you want to be notified about EDSE progress, obviously we'll post here and on our YT community tab, but the most reliable way is to join our email list here: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/

We're starting production of the EDA podcast! On YouTube, it'll be on the same channel as Ever Dark because we have playlists. On Spotify etc, it will have its own feed, which can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0yaYmQ79zNQ1beaR80oLLU?si=qVsLsWRtQD2GMgqNj4Gr5Q There's very little sexy stuff in the first volume of EDA, but when the sexy stuff starts happening, it's not as neatly sectioned off as the other stories. There's going to be a lot of ungraceful edits to cut out the non-PG material. Fortunately we won't have to worry about that very much until V2, which starts at chapter 19.

Now that Raythe's written 8 BIG chapters of Ever Reign, she talks about how it's been going! Ever Reign is starting like any other story, as a Members-only serial on RaytheReign.com. If you want to read it and join the comment section, sign up here: https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans

2014 called, they want their Joomla site back! In this podcast, we discuss what we want and what we think is possible for improving the Members' site experience on RaytheReign.com And yes, we are committed to the quest for the dragon plushies! Join us here and possibly get your own myspace-like profile page on RaytheReign.com https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans

When we made our announcement about Ever Reign last week, we managed to be confusing and got questions from some of our new readers and listeners. We also got a lot of enthusiastic comments about Caspian, Hermes and Illarion! OLD Dragon's Reign podcast (very amateur!): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_JkRUUTpxWH1A5DgXcc9wQnT8SogvRlB | COMPLETED Ever Dark podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_JkRUUTpxWEyrsBZ-1iqSfgB-KfR3IuQ | Membership sale: https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans | Ever Reign themed candle boxes: https://shop.raythereign.com/shop/ever-reign-celebration-launch-box/ | Answer to biggest question: Ever Reign is a WRITTEN SERIAL STORY on RaytheReign.com. It's text! Not audio. The same way every story starts out. | At this point, we don't have any plans on the schedule to make it an audio story in 2026. We've already gotten in trouble this year for "talking too far ahead" like a game studio, and then having to seriously rethink our plans. (Don't worry EDA is coming out in February.)

Illarion gets a boyfriend, and he's a CAT PERSON! Tilly, Illarion and the dogs are left in charge while the adults are on vacation. That's right it's the epic sequel to Dragon's Reign starting this month for Members with 4 chapters on the schedule. See the art in the youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF1Uzxu3emY Join us here: https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans Ever Reign launch boxes: https://shop.raythereign.com/shop/ever-reign-celebration-launch-box/

2025 RR Art Calendars: https://shop.raythereign.com/shop/2026-raythe-reign-wall-art-calendars-limited-edition/

We finally got coordinated enough to get SIX actors from Ever Dark Academy on a livestream with us! October 24 at 6PM Central: Edward, Adam, Hannah, Broadus, Bran, and Liz https://youtube.com/live/sPSn0EYV4i4?feature=share 00:14 Q&A - EDA character art! Which character do YOU want to see? 01:02 Everyone loves Lawson, Sylvia explains why 02:17 Raythe's imposter syndrome, EDA is a big step up, 06:32 Livestream announcement! Lawson's whiney background music clip: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rmAxYp1VAMg

And that's the end of our 2-chapter preview of Ever Dark Academy. ⭐ If you LIKED it, we hope that you will subscribe to this channel for updates on the February podcast. ❤️If you LOVED it, we hope that you'll become a Member of Raythe Reign so you can listen to the chapters of EDA we've posted plus a new chapter every Friday! https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans

Do you like having shorter episodes? You'll still get the same chapter, just broken up into installments. Some readers love the long episodes and some of them think that anything over 15 minutes looks indimidating. Tell us where you fall in the comments!