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

Kids Featured Book:

Kids

Finally
By Wendy Mass

You can pierce your ears when you're twelve. You can go to the mall with your friends when you're twelve. You can babysit little Timmy next door when you're twelve. You can get a cell phone when you're twelve. Hey, you can even ride in the front passenger-side seat when you're twelve. When you're twelve, when you're twelve, when you're twelve . . . My name is Rory Swenson, and I've been waiting to turn twelve my whole life. In exactly 18 hours, 36 minutes, and 52 seconds, it will finally happen.
My life will officially begin.
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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 twice yearly "The Book Pick" contest to be our BB Club House Monthly Pick.
OPEN TO SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS! ($40)
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 weekly or monthly newsletters.
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 our weekly 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 one of our twice 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 twice 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
$40 - Entered in our next "The Book Pick" competition to be our BB Club House Monthly Pick.
$600 - Get an ad for your book in our weekly 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 $1,245-1,345 + 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:

Teen

Before I Fall
By Lauren Oliver

Samantha Kingston has it all: the world's most crush-worthy boyfriend, three amazing best friends, and first pick of everything at Thomas Jefferson High—from the best table in the cafeteria to the choicest parking spot. Friday, February 12, should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it turns out to be her last. Then she gets a second chance. Seven chances, in fact. Reliving her last day during one miraculous week, she will untangle the mystery surrounding her death—and discover the true value of everything she is in danger of losing.
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One Amazing Thing
By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
When an earthquake rips traps nine characters together. At a moment when the stress seems nearly too much for them to bear, one suggests that each tell a personal tale, "one amazing thing" from their lives, which they have never told anyone before.

After the Workshop
By John McNally
...until, finally, 12 years have passed- You are working as a media escort. Your unfinished novel sits in a box under your bed. Your girlfriend has left you. Your neighbor is walking around naked. You are at the whims of a slew of crazy writers, & when one of them disappears, an insane NY publicist begins stalking you...

The Fifth Servant
By Kenneth Wishnia
Pleading the shopkeeper's innocence to the city's sheriff, Benyamin is given three days to bring the true killer to justice. But the search will not be easy. Hampered by rabbinic law, and with no allies or connections, Benyamin has only his wits, knowledge, and faith to guide him on his quest.