FAQ
Generic Questions
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Our Honey Dipper Boy and Bee boy (Adrien and Luca respectively) were created by the lovely and talented Sarah Jo Chreene. To get your own chibis, visit her Facebook Page! Click here to see the list for Sarah’s chibis!
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Linktr.ee is a service that hosts a landing page with all links in one place so you only have to search for one link.
You sign up with your Instagram account or fill out the form. Then you add all your links, from your BookBub and Amazon profiles, to all your social media links so you have them all in one place and so you can capture your audience with only one link.
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ContactInBio is a service that hosts a landing page with all your links in one place so that you only have to search for one link.
You sign up with your Instagram account or fill out the form to sign up. Then you add all your links, from your BookBub and Amazon profiles, to all your social media links so you have them all in one place and so you can capture your audience with only one link.
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A newsletter magnet is a freebie that authors advertise to entice readers to join their newsletter. It could be anything from a short story to a full novel to character sheets for their most popular couple(s). It all depends on the author whether they have one or not, or what they use for this purpose.
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Yes, we use affiliate codes. Because we don't charge for our services, we use affiliate codes to pay for things like our domain name and hosting to keep the website live. We also work hard to find authors to fill out the cross-promotion so that each promotion has greater chances at success.
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We use affiliate tags in every Amazon link. Sometimes we will also have our own books advertised in the promotion under Devon Vesper, the author who runs MM Book Buzz.
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Yes, we accept trans men as main characters.
Yes, we accept asexual men as main characters.\
Yes, we accept books without sex.
Yes, we accept bisexual main characters.
Yes, we accept main characters with mental disorders.
Yes, we accept main characters with disabilities.
Yes, we accept People of Color with all skin tones as main characters.
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Here are the genres we accept at this time. Note that we may add or subtract a genre(s) at anytime.
If you want to suggest a genre, please use the contact form. We’re also interested in bundling more, so any suggestions would be spectacular.
MM Contemporary Romance, Young Adult (If in doubt, it probably goes here)
MM Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Paranormal Romances, Myths & Legends, Fairytales, Omegaverse, Mpreg, Action & Adventure (Anything epic and/or fantastical)
MM Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Steampunk (Anything science-y or with inventions and electric/steampowered gadgets. Note: Technomancy CAN go here if there is enough science to carry the fantastical notes.)
MM BDSM, Erotic Romance, Dark Romance, Age Play (Anything kinky or dark that is not horror or dystopia goes here)
MM Historical, Regency, Gothic Romance, Time Travel Romance (Anything with historical themes and settings!)
MM Romantic Suspense, Thriller, Mystery, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction (If it’s got suspense or detectives, it goes here)
MM Horror, Dystopia (Fine. Go ahead and terrify me. I don’t need sleep, anyway.)
MM Western, Cowboy Romance, Small Town Romance (I need this after the horror.)
Note: If you disagree with a genre category, please contact us to discuss it. We’re always willing and ready to learn new things and adapt accordingly.
Reader Questions
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Yes. These are sale prices, so the price goes back up to normal when the sale expires. Buy while it's hot and cheap!
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Mistakes happen. Let me know by filling out the contact form. I'll fix it as soon as I get the email.
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BookFunnel is a book delivery service. They are of two varieties: 1. One that collects emails, and 2. One that does not. If you are clicking a BookFunnel link in our cross-promo landing page, I can almost guarantee you it is the one that collects emails, since that's the whole purpose of offering that story for free.
BookFunnel, at least, has some awesome customer service if you have trouble getting your book.
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Prolific Works used to be InstaFreebie. They are a service authors use to pass out free books in exchange for newsletter subscriptions. Some authors make subscribing mandatory to receive the free book, others make it an option. If you see a Prolific Works link, it is a legitimate thing (I wouldn't allow it on here otherwise, as I create each landing page, myself).
Also, you won't know if the subscription is mandatory or optional until you click on the link. It will let you download the book and then ask you if you want to hear more about that author. Click yes to get on their newsletter, click no to stay off their list.
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Absolutely not.
However, if you do not sign up for an author's newsletter, you don't get the newsletter freebie if they are offering one. If they are offering a free story that you want, you need to sign up to get that free book. You can always unsubscribe later.
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Absolutely not. All you have to pay for are the 99c books you want to buy, and you pay that to Amazon. Not MM Book Buzz. We will never ask you for money to support the site or to participate in the promotions.
We are, however, using affiliate links. So after you buy a book on Amazon, MM Book Buzz receives a commission from each sale for up to 48 hours after the initial purchase from one of our affiliate links. By clicking on the buy buttons in the cross-promotion page, you are making Amazon pay us a commission. You only pay for your purchases. Amazon does not charge you for this commission.
In addition, the owner of MM Book Buzz, Devon Vesper, also lists their own books in the appropriate genre cross-promotions. If you buy their books, you are helping MM Book Buzz stay online.
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This is most likely a newsletter freebie. You have to sign up to the author's newsletter to receive the free book. This is another service MM Book Buzz offers to our authors. By signing up to an author's newsletter, you not only receive the free book, but any other freebies they offer their newsletter subscribers. You're also among the first to know about sales, new book releases, and more. So it's worth giving them a shot. You can always unsubscribe anytime if you feel you're not a good fit with that author's audience.
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While I will always try to validate prices before the cross-promo goes live, there is always room for mistakes. If you find a price discrepancy, please let us know immediately by using the contact form with the title, author, and what the price is listed as. I will immediately validate the claim, then if it is any other price than 99c or free, I will remove the listing and warn the author.
Authors: Cross Promotion Questions
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Yes. The cross-promotion is Amazon specific. If we decide to change this in the future, we’ll let you know through the newsletter and Facebook page.
However, if you have wide links, we will add them to your listing if you give them to us.
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Cross-promotion is a tool for authors to reach more readers. Each author brings their entire reader base to the proverbial table. You may have a lot of readers that some of the authors haven’t reached yet. So by every author in a set promo group sharing the promotion with their newsletters and social media, every author has the chance to get more readers.
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MM Book Buzz helps you recruit as many authors as possible to offer their books for 99c or free. We then put those books on a web page called a "Landing Page."
When the promotion is live, each author blasts their Facebook profiles and pages, as well as their newsletters and as many Facebook Groups as possible about the huge deals. This includes the link to the cross-promo's landing page and a graphic. MM Book Buzz will supply both the link and the promo graphic, but you are free to make your own graphics if you so choose.
The more authors we get, the better the promotions will be. It relies on everyone sharing the promotion with their audience so we can expand our reach, or cross-pollinate, if you will. Each author may bring in readers who have never heard of you. Readers get to find new-to-them authors, and authors get new readers. It's a win for both authors and readers.
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In the week leading up to the promo date, you want to prime your audience. Let them know something big is coming. If you want to share that you will be in a promo, that’s okay. If you want to tease, that’s fine, too.
On the days of the promotion, you blast your newsletter and social media with the graphics and link to the cross-promo landing page (supplied by MM Book Buzz). Only do this once or twice per day. Encourage everyone to share. Make sure your audience knows what genres are available in the promotion, as these promotions are genre-specific.
During the days of the promotion, you should see a spike in sales (if you’ve priced your promo at 99c), free downloads (if you priced at Free), and KU page reads (if your book is in KU).
Over the week or so after the cross-promotion ends, you should see a boost in sales / downloads / KU page reads for the rest of your backlist as new fans plow through everything you’ve written.
Note: These results are typical but not guaranteed. It depends on many factors, such as each author’s fanbase size, author participation (whether the authors all remembered to blast their fans with the deals), how good their cover and blurb are, and more.
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Yes, it will. During our first round, some authors reached #1 in their rankings. And with the way MM Book Buzz cultivates same-genre listings, your also boughts will do well, too.
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The reason we keep the cross-promotions to certain genre restrictions is so that your also-boughts get a good boost, or at the very least, hopefully they won’t suffer. If also-boughts weren’t a thing, we would take any genre for each cross-promotion.
That said, we can’t help what other books readers buy when they buy yours, which is partly how also-boughts are generated. So, we have no way to guarantee it will help.
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The following are required:
• Promote the cross-promo landing page to your newsletter
• Promote it on your Facebook profile
• Promote it on your Facebook page
• Promote it in your group(s)
• Help others by promoting it in promo groups.
Remember: The more people who see the promo landing page link, the more sales we all get. If you don’t pull your weight in promoting the landing page, you’re letting the other authors down. It’s like breaking a promise. Don’t be that person.
For more rules and requirements, please go to the Author Rules and Guidelines page.
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I will… for the most part. You bring the authors and books and make those books 99c or free, and I’ll make and maintain the landing page, create graphics, and do whatever else I can, including trying to find more authors to fill up the page. The more authors, the more successful the cross-promotion can be.
However, each author is responsible for promoting the cross-promo’s landing page to their social media, newsletters, and Facebook Groups the day before and all during the promotion. However, personal / virtual assistants can do this for the authors. So if you really don’t have time, consider spending a few dollars for a PA/VA for those few days, or finding someone who loves you enough (and who you trust enough) to do it for free.
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For 99c promotions
You must manually change your price for each Amazon region (US, UK, CA, etc.).
Kindle Countdown Deals (KCD) only reach Amazon US and UK. We have readers from all over the world, and they all deserve to have a 99c deal. If I find out you're using a KCD for your listing, your listing will be removed from the promotion.
Ensure you are entering the lowest price available ($0.99, £0.99, 0.99€, 109¥, etc.). You want all of them to be the lowest you can price it. Some of the prices above are not the lowest, but that's because Amazon saw fit to change them without my approval. I'm just finding this out at the time I wrote this FAQ.
For Free Promos
You can absolutely use your Kindle Free Days, as they are global pricing.
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Your cover should end in .jpg or .png.
Please give us access to a Google Drive folder with the cover, blurb and anything else you want to include in separate files.
For instance, if you have a blurb, newsletter link, bio, and anything else, make sure they are all in separate, clearly-labeled, Google Doc files. I know this seems wasteful of space, but it is easier for us to see things at a glance when we’re in the hyperfocus zone of getting the event page set up. We appreciate your consideration in this matter.
Please remember, when creating and sharing your Google Drive folder, to:
Back out of the folder.
On the right side of the folder, click the three vertical dots.
Hover over Share and click Share from the fly-out menu.
Under “General Access, click “Restricted” and select “Anyone with the link.”
Select “Viewer” from beside “Anyone with the link” and click editor or commenter so I can leave comments if I have any questions. Those comments will send you an email to the gmail account associated with your Google Drive account.
Click “Copy link.”
Send Devon Vesper that link.
Click “Done” to exit the Share menu.
You can email the cover file to devon.vesper@gmail.com. To satisfy the required field in the form, just put that you sent it in email and move on.