The Queer Your Bookshelf a cross-promotion opportunity for authors writing queer fiction of any genre. It is based on the principle of authors helping authors.
On promotion day, readers are directed to a single landing page that lists all participating books. Each book listing includes buy links that take readers to retailer platforms.
All authors are encouraged to join the Facebook Group and subscribe to the Substack for the most up to date information.
- The promotion takes place on a single day.
- Only one book per pen name. Authors can submit a second book per pen name if one or both books are non-cis-MM.
- Only queer fiction allowed. You may define “queer” as you see fit.
- Your book must be discounted in all marketplaces promotion day. This promotion is international.
- All links must take readers directly to a buy page. Intermediary landing pages (like Bookfunnel or Books2Read) are not allowed.
- Affiliate links are not allowed.
- Attribution links (like Amazon attribution links) and geo-location/universal links (like ReaderLinks or Genius links) are okay.
If you have participated in a Zoebub in the past, this promotion will follow a similar format (i.e. page of links to go directly to buy pages).
FAQs
- What counts as “queer”?
You, as the author, decides whether your book is queer. If you feel comfortable describing your book as queer, then it counts. - Pairings Question in Submission Form
If the characters in your book don’t fall within the gender pairings listed in the submission form, please use the “Other” field to indicate their gender identities. Whatever you put in the field will be copied directly onto the website.
If your book is not a romance, please select “Not Applicable” for this question. - Discounted in All Markets
This is an international promotion, so books must be discounted in all marketplaces. You may use the Kindle Countdown function on Amazon for US and UK markets; however, you must also manually adjust prices for all other marketplaces a few days before the promotion. - Amazon International Pricing
Books should be set to the following prices in Amazon marketplaces:- Amazon.com (US): $0.99
- Amazon.in (India): ₹49
- Amazon.co.uk (UK): £0.77
- Amazon.de (Germany): €0.89
- Amazon.fr (France): €0.89
- Amazon.es (Spain): €0.89
- Amazon.it (Italy): €0.89
- Amazon.nl (Netherlands): €0.89
- Amazon.co.jp (Japan): ¥99
- Amazon.com.br (Brazil): R$1.99
- Amazon.ca (Canada): $0.99
- Amazon.com.mx (Mexico): $11.99
- Amazon.com.au (Australia): $0.99
You must select 35% royalty rate and manually adjust prices in each marketplace.
- Non-Amazon (Wide) International Pricing
All prices should be set to the lowest amount allowed by the retailer, but not free. - Store-specific Books2Read Links
Books2Read links are allowed if you add “?store=amazon” to the end of the link. Our goal is to take the reader directly to a buy page with only one click. Common retailers are:- Amazon: “?store=amazon”
- Apple: “?store=apple”
- Kobo: “?store=kobo”
- B&N: “?store=bn”
- Google: “?store=google”
- Book Cover File Size
If you’re having difficulty reducing the file size of your book cover to 25KB, you can use this website: https://tinypng.com/.
Please check back often for updated FAQs. If your question isn’t answered above, please reach out to Lin via the Contact Form.