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Sign up for the BasedCon Based Book Sale Today

The Based Book Sale has referred 1727 Kindle Free E-books and 6154 Kindle Paid E-Books so far this year, a total of 7881 Based Books put into the hands of Based Readers.

Sign Up for the BasedCon Based Book Sale Now!

The BasedCon Based Book Sale starts Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 12:00 AM PDT through Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 12:00 AM PDT.

An Update to Our Policies

The sale has grown so big that I will have to limit the number of entries per author to no more than two books by default. I will waive the limit for established authors whose books have a proven track record of appeal to Based Readers. Questions? DM me. As always, I have absolute discretion on what appears in the sale, and I can reject any book for any reason.

Also, please keep in mind setting up the sale is a substantial effort. I have a day job. And other projects I’m working toward on the side. I’ll try to get back to requests and comments as soon as I can. I’m working with upwards of a couple hundred authors to make sure every book appears perfectly in the sale. I don’t always succeed.

Make sure you check for your listing as soon as the sale goes live. If there’s a problem, let me know. Does the link work? Or did I forget you entirely? Scrolling hundreds of comments, I do sometime miss a few. Let me know there’s a problem. I’ll fix it. If you don’t tell me, I may not realize it.

Here’s How to Sign Up

Authors, want your book included? If you want to participate in the week-long BasedCon Based Book Sale, here’s what you have to do.

1. First, you have to subscribe so you’ll get the email updates when the sale is live.

   Based Book Sale is a cooperative effort for authors and readers alike. There is no cost to participate, although you may upgrade to a paid subscription to further support our mission.

2. Second, put your book in the comments of this post in this format, a. Whether new to the sale, b. author, c. title, d. link. Example:
   NOT new to the sale; Hans G. Schantz; The Hidden Truth, https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Truth-Science-Fiction-Techno-Thriller/dp/1532712936/
   If you prefer a Book Funnel or other link, you may provide that instead, but then, I won’t have visibility to your sales, and you won’t be listed in the sale rankings.

3. The sale leans heavily toward science fiction and fantasy, but we also end up with thrillers, romance, mystery, and even non-fiction. If you’ve been in the sale before, acceptance is pretty much automatic. I will exclude books that I think don’t fit or may be too salacious, and that certainly includes topics like erotica or LGBQ-themed books. Have something that might be borderline? Reach out and ask me in a DM on Substack. I can’t possibly read all the entries in detail, so I leave it to you to decide if yours is “based:”

based [ beyst ] / beɪst / adjective
1. Well-grounded, resting upon a firm foundation.
2. Principled, devoted to fixed standards, especially in defiance of conventional wisdom.
3. Rejecting politically correct attitudes and celebrating nonconformity with woke opinion.
4. Committed to upholding and advancing the good, the beautiful, and the true.
antonyms: debased, cringe

4. I’ll either "like" your comment or reply with a note if there’s a problem. It may take me a few days to catch up with all the comments. Make sure your book is priced to be free or $0.99 for the sale period, in this case: Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 12:00 AM PDT through Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 12:00 AM PDT. Either schedule a Kindle Countdown deal, if your book is in Kindle Direct, or put in a sales price change a few days in advance of the sale. Don’t cut it too close, since it may take up to 72 hours for the change to go through, and you usually cannot change it again for another month, anyway.

5. I’ll send out a link when the sale goes live. The price you pay for inclusion? Make a good faith effort to promote the sale to your readers through your email list and social media. Introduce your fans and readers to the other author’s books in the sale as the rest of us are doing the same for yours.

6. As a minimum, everyone on Twitter should design two tweets to promote the sale: one general tweet about the sale, one specific tweet regarding your individual book(s). Both posts should have a link to the sale page, not just your own book(s). Tag @basedbooksale on Twitter/X in a comment. I’ll retweet. Follow the Based Book Twitter feed and retweet everyone else’s posts. We’ll share everything at least once by the end of the sale.

Thank you for helping make the Based Book Sale a success and for showing the power of distributed, community-driven marketing to reach readers directly.

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