Calling Authors! The Spring Based Book Sale

Want your book included? Here’s what you have to do.

The Spring 2024 Based Book Sale will be 12:00AM PDT Wednesday March 27, 2024 through 12:00AM PDT Wednesday April 3, 2024.

Readers? You can ignore this one, but if you do have author friends, please feel free to pass this opportunity on to them.

Authors, want your book included? If your book is permanently priced at $0.99 or free, go to the Everyday Based Book Sale post, here. If you specifically want to participate in the week-long spring 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. And only subscribers are allowed to comment.

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 erotica. 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 reply with a note that your book is approved. Make sure your book is priced to be free or $0.99 for the sale period, in this case: 12:00AM PDT Wednesday March 27, 2024 through 12:00AM PDT Wednesday April 3, 2024. 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.

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.

That’s all there is too it!

Thanks for participating in the Based Book Sale!