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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!

And here's Chapter 1, Part 2 of Ever Dark Academy! Come tomorrow for Chapter 2, Part 1, or join the Membership to hear up to Chapter 9 (we just started posting!) https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans

Ok we're like those little kids who spoil Christmas surprises in November. We aren't *officially* launching Ever Dary Academy, but so many people just wanted to hear the first 2 chapters that we had to put them up! ~ ⭐How far is the Member podcast?⭐ Chapters are uploaded to the Membership every Friday, and October 10 brings you Chapter 10. We're launching the EDA podcast in February. If you want to hear the chapters NOW, you can sign up here: https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans

We got held up with ambition and ideas, but we're running the Ever Dark Academy podcast for Members starting in September. (We ARE bringing it to the public with a bigger experience than we had before, which was... just running the chapters.)

Where are we with order fulfillment? We are super close to uploading the list to the printer, so please please get your address updated if you need to. Email marketing@raythereign.com and we'll check.

The RR Team records our first podcast in Raythe's new house, and we are very chatty! Get the updates on shipping hardcovers, where we are on Ever Dark Special Edition Kickstarter delivery, and more. Kickstarter updates tab: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ever-dark/ever-dark-a-gay-vampire-romance-series/posts

Our first Kickstarter is almost done! We really hope you can join us for our ending stream at 1PM Central on Friday : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpCKeNwp-Sg And be sure to tell us in the comments: what kind of cake should we have on Friday?

Join us on the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttabYfHmf9E See our Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ever-dark/ever-dark-a-gay-vampire-romance-series

Here's the info taken from our Friday livestream on YouTube about our Special Edition printings for Ever Dark. Definitely look at the Kickstarter page so you can SEE what we're talking about: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ever-dark/ever-dark-a-gay-vampire-romance-series/description

We just launched Book 1 of The Night Prince, our queer romantic fantasy series which will be a loooong journey. Raythe answers some nuts-n-bolts questions like, "when's the next book? is there audio?" BookFunnel page with all currently available formats, including audio and paperback: https://buy.bookfunnel.com/9k3o3crc7y Our YouTube channel where we livestream at least 2x / month now. Look on the "Live" tab for prescheduled streams, and our Community section for announcements: https://www.youtube.com/@RaytheReign/community Our email list, where you get the most reliable info, including a monthly digest with organized news, dates, links and more: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/

What's next is EVER DARK ACADEMY! We're going to take a break and get organized, but we have some awesome behind the scenes material from the actors to run in the meantime! Join our email list to get updates here: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/

Join us for the Ever Dark ending livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/live/_oh_nWwBlZM

We really hope you'll join us for the YouTube premiere and livestream after for the final episode of Ever Dark! Check the live tab here for the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@RaytheReign/streams

Quick update on what Raythe's been doing (as you wait for Ever Dark to finish...) Book 1 of The Night Prince is coming out on April 24, and Raythe talks about how she wrote the two main M/M couples of this story. Ebook: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Prince-Book-Fantasy-Romance-ebook/dp/B0DWHFP2YB Audiobook (out already!): https://www.amazon.com/The-Night-Prince-Book-1/dp/B0F1Q2WFXP Paperbacks are coming, and they will be Amazon print-on-demand.

What's your favorite Ever Dark character? Do you have any theories about what will happen in Ever Dark Academy? Tell us in the comments! JOIN THE EMAIL LIST HERE: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/ It's the most reliable way to know about free books, when the new podcast episodes are coming out, print editions, and things like that.

144... 145... 146... 147... and then? It's Academy time! Buy Book 1 of Ever Dark Academy on Amazon or our own shop. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ever-Dark-Academy-Vampire-Romance-ebook/dp/B0DSR5YG94 Shop: https://shop.raythereign.com/shop/ever-dark-academy-volume-1-ebook/ PRINT BOOKS won't be volume-by-volume this time. It gets a little much! Instead, we're only printing in compilation editions. Sign up for our email list here, it's the best way to get notice about what's happening with the print books. https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/

The whole reason we took this project to Kickstarter vs just doing it on our own shop was the hope that we would reach new audiences in search of queer art. Will that happen? We'll find out in May... Support this project, even if you don't want to buy the books, by clicking 'notify me on launch' on this page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ever-dark/ever-dark-a-gay-vampire-romance-series You can also join our email list here: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/

Our showboat celebration printing of Ever Dark has been... a process. Here to talk about the more technical aspects of this process are Raythe and Sylvia Frost as they discuss making this a truly special edition. Support this project, even if you don't want to buy the books, by clicking 'notify me on launch' on this page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ever-dark/ever-dark-a-gay-vampire-romance-series You can also join our email list here: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/

5 more left until Ever Dark is COMPLETE, after 2.5 years. Never let it be said that we don't commit. Tell us about your Ever Dark journey: when you first found this story, what were you expecting? This chapter has been slightly edited for descriptions of torture. Sign up for our email list here so you won't miss what's happening with the sequel to this podcast: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/

Click the 'notify me' button here to juice the Kickstarter algorithm: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ever-dark/ever-dark-a-gay-vampire-romance-series Join our mailing list: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/ Our YT community tab for photos, new art, etc: https://www.youtube.com/@RaytheReign/community As we're getting everything ready for our Kickstarter campaign, it occurred to us that... maybeeeee we should ASK PEOPLE what they want (in addition to beautiful hardcover books, that is.) Here we're reading through the responses, which were really helpful!

6 chapters left in this vampire story (and then we go on to Ever Dark Academy, hopefully without much of a gap!) Sign up for our email list here so you won't miss what's happening with this podcast: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/ If you want to read Ever Dark Academy and Ever Dark Equinox (in progress), join the membership here: https://raythereign.com/membership/signup

We're almost done with Ever Dark, but we hope that you join us in June for Ever Dark Academy. We'll be posting more about that as we get closer to the time... Sign up for our email list here so you won't miss what's happening with this podcast: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/ If you want to read Ever Dark Academy and Ever Dark Equinox (in progress), join the membership here: https://raythereign.com/membership/signup

"Are you worried that Amazon will ban spicy romance and queer stories?" We've put off answering this question - and edited out a LOT because it was too long and less focused than it could have been. But yeah, we ARE worried. We've had run-ins with Amazon before, and this is why we will NEVER rely on 3rd parties as much as we can be free of them. If you want to get Edward's version of The Night Prince, either download it before March 7 2025 as part of your subscription, or wait to use your Audible credit after April 23. Signup link: https://raythereign.com/membership/signup Night Prince on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DWHFP2YB

This chapter is literally all sex and can't be run on the public podcast! If you want to hear the uncensored chapter, you have two choices: 1) Join the Membership and hear ALL of Ever Dark, not to mention the chapters of Dragon's Reign and Night Prince we've posted so far. https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans 2) Just buy the audiobooks: https://shop.raythereign.com/shop/product-category/audiobooks/ed-audiobooks/

This chapter is literally all sex and can't be run on the public podcast! If you want to hear the uncensored chapter, you have two choices: 1) Join the Membership and hear ALL of Ever Dark, not to mention the chapters of Dragon's Reign and Night Prince we've posted so far. https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans 2) Just buy the audiobooks: https://shop.raythereign.com/shop/product-category/audiobooks/ed-audiobooks/

There are only 10 episodes left of Ever Dark, but Ever Dark Academy is in production! We hope that you join us in June for the start of a new vampire adventure with a new vampire M/M couple. Between the end of Ever Dark and the start of Academy, we have some 'behind the scenes' content from the cast of EDA to run. Sign up for our email list here so you won't miss what's happening with this podcast: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/

Raythe tried to scratch her academy itch with EDA... did she succeed? Is this a true academy-style story? 02:19 Responding to emails 4:30 Ever Dark Academy questions 06:45 Raythe's Harry Potter hot take 10:11 What we love about The Magicians Ever Dark Academy Book 1 comes out on Amazon on Feb 14 in ebook and paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Ever-Dark-Academy-Vampire-Romance-ebook/dp/B0DSR5YG94 ALL 169 chapters are available to read at once in our Membership content! Join here: https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans The 14-actor audiobook should come out in June.

Seeing this for the first time? Start with chapter 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4tf8aERKI We're podcasting a lot more! Call it our new year resolution. If YOU have any topics you'd like us to talk about, put them in the comments! Ever Dark Equinox is the third installment in the Ever Dark world, and Caemorn's love story! Sign up to read the first 100,000 words (yep it's gonna be a long one): https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans

Ever Dark Academy is the sequel series to Ever Dark, but you don't need to have read / listened to Ever Dark to jump in. Launch date for book: February 14 2025 (https://www.amazon.com/Ever-Dark-Academy-Vampire-Romance-ebook/dp/B0DSR5YG94) Launch date for audiobook: June 2025. Raythe shares what her motivation was for EDA, which is darker than the "yay, adventure!" premise for Ever Dark. These characters have secrets that they do NOT want to get out. The entire 169 chapter story of EDA is completed on the site! We're releasing 4 EDA books in 2025, but if you don't want to wait, you can join the subscription and binge read the entire thing: https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans

Seeing this for the first time? Start with chapter 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4tf8aERKI Curious about Raythe's other M/M stories? Check out the library here: https://raythereign.com/index.php/library/the-library Every subscription and purchase from the shop is meaningful to us! We're like any other small business and our customers sign our paychecks. Raythe Reign Shop: https://shop.raythereign.com Subscribe to us for a month or two: https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans

Seeing this for the first time? Start with chapter 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4tf8aERKI Check out our monthly calendar, where Raythe has something new to see, read, or hear every day of the month: https://raythereign.com/index.php/calendar Listen to Hero on YouTube, a 3-part gay vampire HORROR story. No happy endings here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbWAUmdXxK8

Part 2 of the podcast from yesterday, when we really got off track. This is everything that we've scheduled in 2025. Join the mailing list to see if we stay on track: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/ Join the subscription here: https://raythereign.com/index.php/membership-plans

With the ...uh ... coming crazy, we thought it was important to talk about why our community actually matters, even though we're not anyone prominent in the gay entertainment or podcast space. We cringe if we talk about this stuff, all we want to do is publish stories. But we decided it's cowardly NOT to acknowledge the place that our community has in people's lives, and why we want to continue doing our "very important work" of publishing tales of gay vampires, superheroes, elves and flying snakes. (The snakes aren't gay. Well, they could be? IDK.) Sign up here with coupon code WINTERSALE to get a year for $50: https://raythereign.com/membership/signup Join our mailing list for free Amazon books, audiobook sales, new releases, and preview chapters ahead of everyone else: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/

Seeing this for the first time? Start with chapter 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4tf8aERKI We have exclusive audio chapters in the Membership, including the original (sometimes hilariously edited) Dragon's Reign, and Raythe's narration of the fantasy series The Night Prince. You get it ALL if you sign up even for one month! https://raythereign.com/membership/signup

Seeing this for the first time? Start with chapter 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4tf8aERKI If you don't like to read unfinished stories, we don't blame you! But there are TONS of completed stories in the Members-Only archive. Sign up here and read them all, including the completed sequel to Ever Dark!: https://raythereign.com/membership/signup

Seeing this for the first time? Start with chapter 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4tf8aERKI 15 chapters left until the end, but if you're dying to know what happens next, Ever Dark Academy, the 169 chapter sequel, is COMPLETED. Ever Dark Equinox, the next installment (and Caemorn's love story!) is in progress. Read both of them here: https://raythereign.com/membership/signup

Seeing this for the first time? Start with chapter 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4tf8aERKI Ever Dark Academy, the 169 chapter sequel, is COMPLETED. Ever Dark Equinox, the next installment (and Caemorn's love story!) is in progress. Read both of them here: https://raythereign.com/membership/signup

Seeing this for the first time? Start with chapter 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4tf8aERKI Ever Dark is COMPLETED on the Membership site! Listen to all 147 chapters with no edits and no censorship spots here: https://raythereign.com/membership/signup You'll also hear / read the Member exclusive story Night Prince, which is high fantasy and has 2 couples as well. https://raythereign.com/index.php/stories-and-manga/h-q/the-night-prince

Find out what's happening with story, the sequel, and more! Our YouTube community channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv8RBu4tuuexfLfhc-hSjTQ/community Our mailing list: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/ Join our subscription site for tons of exclusive content: https://raythereign.com/membership/signup

Seeing this for the first time? Start with chapter 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4tf8aERKI Our YouTube community channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv8RBu4tuuexfLfhc-hSjTQ/community Our mailing list: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/ Buy Ever Dark audiobooks on our shop: https://shop.raythereign.com/shop/product-category/audiobooks/ed-audiobooks/

visual version: https://youtu.be/WWHpUssPFFM Some amazing fans created this quiz with trivia about Raythe's works from 2010 - present. While Raythe doesn't get a 100% on the names, she does ACE the animal sidekicks of Raythe Reign, and everyone knows they're really the stars of the stories.

Seeing this for the first time? Start with chapter 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4tf8aERKI Our YouTube community channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv8RBu4tuuexfLfhc-hSjTQ/community Our mailing list: https://shop.raythereign.com/free-book-email-list/ Become a supporting member and read ALL of Ever Dark Academy and participate in Ever Dark Equinox: https://raythereign.com/membership/signup