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Welcome Authors!

We want to help you get the message out about your book! We offer several options for you to be able to do this and we are continually working on ways to improve our author program. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to send them to us from our "Contact Us" page.

Jump to: "The Book Pick" Competition
 
2010 Winner of "The Book Pick" Contest:

Looks Easy Enough: A Joyful Memoir of Overcoming Disease, Divorce, and Disaster

Featured Children's Book:

The Sixty-Eight Rooms
The Sixty-Eight Rooms
By Marianne Malone

Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the Children’s Galleries of the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms made in the 1930s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect, from the knobs on the doors to the candles in the candlesticks. Some might even say, the rooms are magic. Imagine—what if you discovered a key that allowed you to shrink so that you were small enough to sneak inside and explore the rooms’ secrets? What if you discovered that others had done so before you? And that someone had left something important behind?
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Author FAQs:

Is it appropriate as a new author to add my own book to my bookshelf?
How do new authors get a mention?
Can I post my book in the general discussion forum?
Can I sponsor an "Authors Give Away" contest and have my book given to the winner?
How can I get MY book page to include the reviews, an excerpt, and a little bit about me?
Do you do book reviews?
Can I place an ad for my book on Book Bundlz?
I want to be considered for your BB Club House Book of the Month pick. Can I do that?
What does your "Premium Author Package" include?
I have a children's book, can I promote that on your site?
I have a young adult/teen book, can I promote that on your site?

Is it appropriate as a new author to add my own book to my bookshelf?
YES! By doing that you get in the BookBundlz system and others might be able to find you. Please do so. Remember you have to be a Clubie to have a bookshelf.

How do new authors get a mention?
BB offers several ways for you to help promote your book.

1. Add your book to our bookshelves/database - FREE
If you are a registered Clubie, you can always add your book to the BookBundlz bookshelves/database at any time by adding your book to your personal Clubie bookshelf. This makes your book searchable by all visitors to BookBundlz & creates a book page which include: book description, ratings and reviews from Clubies, discussion forum, and a "Buy Now" option. (You book must first be in the Amazon database in order for our search to find your book. Click here to add your book to the Amazon database.)

2. Add a Reading Group Discussion Guide - FREE
If your a clubie, and have a book on our site, send us your reading group discussion guide questions and we will add the reading guide to your book page for free! Click here to send your questions through our Contact Us page. Select "Discussion Guides" from the pulldown menu and cut and past your questions into the note field.

3. Get the "Best Seller" Treatment ($25 one time fee)
On your book page, we will add information about the author, reviews, excerpts, interviews, video promotions (video promotions limited to Amazon trailers, or YouTube videos), and pretty much anything else that you think is appropriate to help communicate what your book is all about. For more info, click here.

4. Enter our yearly "The Book Pick" contest to be our BB Club House Monthly Pick.
OPEN TO SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS! ($35)
If you win, you get:
• posted as the winner for 6 months on the website
• to be the BB Club House Pick and featured for 1 month
If you're in the top 5 your book will receive the Best Seller Treatment for free, and be voted on for roughly 3 weeks. (Lots of exposure!)
Click here for more info

5. Sponsor an Contest!
Click here for more info

6. Get your book featured
Prices vary, click here for more info

7. Buy some ad space on the site
You can either buy ad space on the site itself, or ad space in our marketing emails.
Click here for more info

8. You want it all, don't you?
We can't blame you! We offer a premium author package. Click here for full details

Can I sponsor a contest and have my book given to the winner?
Yep! Space is limited, so please contact us for availability. We can not guarantee people will enter the contest, but you will be featured for a month with the contest. You will be emailed the name and address of the winner. You are responsible for shipment of the book(s) to the winner(s). You agree to not keep the winner's mailing address and to never contact or mail anything except the book you have posted in the contest. The "book" must be a physical bound printed copy of the book (not just from your printer or anything). Click here for more info.

How can I get MY book page to include the reviews, an excerpt, and a little bit about me?
This would be our "Best Seller Treatment" Click here to see a completely tricked out book who's received the "Best Seller Treatment"
On your book page, we will add information about the author, reviews, excerpts, interviews, video promotions (video promotions limited to Amazon trailers, or YouTube videos), and pretty much anything else that you think is appropriate to help communicate what your book is all about. You will also be listing in twice monthly update, Books Unleashed.

Click here to send your information and payment of $25

Future additions to your book page are available for a fee. Please contact us for a quote.

Do you do book reviews?
There are two ways you can currently get your book reviewed by BB:

1. Enter our yearly competition to be our BB Club House Book Pick and WIN! Click here for more info

2. Sign up for our "Author Premium Package"
Click here for more info

We are thinking about starting a program that would allow your book to get reviewed. We have not quite figured out all the details yet. If you are interested in getting on our list to receive notification of this service, please click here to go to our "Contact Us" page, choose "Book Review Program" from the pulldown. Please indicate in your note what you feel this service is worth to you.

 

Can I post my book in the general discussion forum?
Sorry, this forum is for general discussions.  
All individual postings on the forum promoting books will be deleted.

Can I place an ad for my book on BookBundlz?
Absolutely! Click here for more info on advertising prices.

I want to be considered for your BB Club House Book of the Month pick. Can I do that?
Yes you can! We just started a yearly contest. The winner is our monthly book pick for February or August depending on which contest you entered for! Click here for more info

What does your "Premium Author Package" include?
$25 - Best Seller Treatment
$30 - Author page (Coming soon, you will get this as soon as it is set up)
$100 - Book Spotlight
"Priceless" - Get your book reviewed by a BB staffer
$35 - Entered in our next "The Book Pick" competition to be our BB Club House Monthly Pick.
$600 - Get an ad for your book in oue twice monthly email "Books Unleashed" for a whole month. Click here to sign up for "Books Unleashed"
$300 - Your ad on EVERY book page for a month (Square Size)
$150 or $250 - Sponsor a Contest! (Author Contest $150 value, Main site contest $250 value)

Total price $1,240-1,340 + priceless reviews YOUR Price $995
Click here to submit your info for the Best Seller Treatment and send your payment. After you submit your Best Seller Information, select "Premium Author Package" at the bottom

I have a children's book, can I promote that on your site?
Yes! Although kids are not our main focus, many of our Clubies are moms and dads. So we maintain a page just for the kids, so they know they have a resource to go to. Check out our kids page.

I have a young adult/teen book, can I promote that on your site?
Yes! Teens are very into book clubs and we have quite a few young adult clubs on BookBundlz. Because of this we maintain a page just for teens. Check out our teen page.

Featured Teen Book:

Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)
Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games)
By Suzanne Collins

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss’s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins’s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
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Author Spotlight on Great Books everyone should read
The Lady Matador's Hotel
 The Lady Matador's Hotel
By Cristina Garcia
6 lives intertwining at a hotel in a Central American in the midst of political turmoil. A Japanese-Mexican-American matadora, an ex-guerrilla now waitress, a Korean manufacturer with an underage mistress, a German international adoption lawyer, a colonel who committed atrocities, & a Cuban poet who has come with his American wife to adopt.
Room
 Room
By Emma Donoghue
Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, ROOM is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.
The Good Daughters
 The Good Daughters
By Joyce Maynard
They were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital, into families that could hardly have been less alike. Maynard chronicles the unlikely ways the two women's lives parallel and intersect—from childhood, to marriage, to parenthood, to deaths of parents, to divorce, —until past secrets and forgotten memories unexpectedly come to light, forcing them to reevaluate themselves and each other.
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