Queer Books Weekly is a weekly queer book promotional newsletter and blog. This is for a free spot in the newsletter highlighting ARC copies of pre-release or recent release books. Include a sign up form or a link to request the book on BookFunnel, StoryOrigin, BookSirens, BookSprout, or other ARC management service. Visit the blog and sign up to receive updates at https://queerbooksweekly.com or follow us on BlueSky at @queerbooksweekly.com
Details:
Book a slot in the weekly promotion list on Queer Books Weekly in the "ARC Corner". These spots are free / they do not cost money. Your book will be featured on our Tuesday blog and will be posted to our BlueSky account. You can submit up to one book per week.
- Books must free ARC copies.
- Books don't have to be books. They can be serials, novellas, short stories, interactive fiction, visual novels, poetry chapbooks, microfiction, etc. It does not have to be available on Amazon.
- For fiction books, the main character must be queer in some way. For non-fiction, queerness must be a major theme or component of the book (ex: a biography of a major historical figure that was known to be trans, a history book about non-binary identities in the late antiquities, a science book about hormone replacement therapy best practices)
- The works submitted must not condone or endorse racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, acephobia, ableism, xenophobia, etc. The works can explore and examine those prejudices, but must not advocate for them.
- No fascists, no nazis.
Instructions:
- Select the date you wish to have your book promoted. We post every Tuesday.
- Select the time slot - that's the time that the post usually goes out. It has 50 spots in it. If I have 50 books, holy heck that's awesome for me but I'm sorry, you'll have to check another week.
- Fill out the form!
- The form asks for 3 links. You don't have to provide all three! If you just have a web form, great! But if you want to link both BookFunnel and StoryOrigin, for example, you can!
- Please provide a link to somewhere I can download your cover. I like to display the cover as part of the listing and it makes it much easier if you provide a link. This can be from a cloud storage drive, an image sharing site like snap.as or even the link to the image on your own website! Thanks! I understand you might not have a final cover, and that's fine. Just give me an image that is attention-grabbing, then!
AI policy:
The use of large language models is prohibited for works included on QBW. The use of other technologies that use the "AI" marketing label but do not create content for you is allowed, such as speech-to-text assistive technologies that have been around for decades but use AI as a marketing label; features in Photoshop or Affinity that algorithmically make changes to the photo such as filters, cloning, or color swapping, etc; grammar and spelling checker features which have been around for years before LLMs became publicly available, etc. We recognize that there are many technologies, apps, and programs that many have been using since well before Chatgpt and Midjourney that aren't in anyway similar to those but decided they needed to add "AI" to their name. We don't get it either but 🤷
Who's running this, and how do I know you're not someone collecting info for nefarious purposes?
This site is run by Dax Murray, a non-binary author who has been publishing independently since 2017.
You can find out more about Dax on their website. If you have previously booked a slot on QueerBooksWeekly and want your listing removed, simply email Dax at qbw@daxmurray.com and they will remove it. The site is built on Write.as, a privacy-first blogging platform that does not collect information on users except for email addresses if they choose to be notified by email.