Book of The Week on QBW (Paid Spot - $5)
15 minutes
$5.00
Queer Books Weekly is a weekly queer book promotional newsletter and blog. This is for a free spot in the newsletter show under the appropriate genre heading. All books featured are either $5.99 or less on the day of their posting! Books that are less expensive usually get more traction. Visit the blog and sign up to recieve updates at https://queerbooksweekly.com or follow us on BlueSky at @queerbooksweekly.com
The Book of the Week is the first book listed on the weekly list / first book posted on BlueSky and is pinned. The author of Book of the Week is also given the opportunity to have an "Also By..." where they can list their back-list books and have universal book links for them.
Details:
Book the top spot in the weekly newsletter. These spots cost $5 and there is only one per week. Your book will be featured on our Tuesday blog at the top of the post listed as the Book of the Week and will be posted to our BlueSky account in the lead post and pinned for the week. You can submit up to one book per week.
- Books must be $5.99 or less, either regularly priced that way or on special discount on the day of the promotion
- 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 posts usually go out on Tuesday. If there are no times available, the spot for that week is already taken. Please consider checking the following weeks. If you want your book in this weeks promotion now matter what, you can also check the free postings.
- Fill out the form!
- The form asks for 5 retailer links. You don't need to provide 5! If you just want to provide one universal book link, that's fine. If you want to link to every serial site your webnovel is on, that's fine! If you only want to link to Itch, Amazon, and Kobo, that's also fine! Also fine if you just want to link to your direct store. It's up to you!
- 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!
AI policy:
The use of large language models is prohibited for books and other works. 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.
Why are you charging for this?
This is really more of a 'tip jar' situation. It costs money to host the website, renew the domain, etc. If you want to give me a few dollars as a thanks, I will list you first. I'll never charge for regular spots as I want this to be an accessible and free way for creative writers to show off their work. I do still have to eat like anyone else, though.
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