Mystery Reads

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Authors: Share Your Mystery Book

Tell our readers about your book. The more information you include in your post, the more your readers can get to know you and your writing style. If you put nonsense or characters in required fields and do not fill them out with real information your post will be deleted.

Why do we ask for so much information?
We want readers to be able to find your book and learn about you as an author. For that reason we want you to share more than what is on your Amazon book page and something different than what you may post on other sites. If you skip our required fields you are not giving our readers what they want and therefore your post will be deleted and not posted.

Check your submission
Please check your submission for accuracy before you hit the submit button. However it looks here is how it will be published. Beware that if you cut and paste from Word or Amazon description your post may contain extra lines or not look like you intend it to. The best thing to do is copy and paste to a plain text document (like Notepad) before you copy to our form. Only include links in the spaces indicated, not in your book synopsis. We also do not allow html.

Inappropriate books will be rejected
Forms that are filled with repeat information to get past the required fields will be deleted and not posted to our site. Nonfiction books and books that are not mystery genre will also be deleted. This site is for mystery book lovers – hence the name Mystery Reads 🙂 Please respect our time and do not submit inappropriate books. We want to spend our time promoting fiction authors, not deleting posts that don’t belong here. All posts are subject to approval, so don’t think you can get an inappropriate book by us even though you have registered for an account.

How long will it take for my book to show up on Mystery Reads?
Books will be posted in the order they were received and could take up to 10 days to be scheduled. We do not send notification of posts being scheduled, so please watch our social media for your post. All approved books will go to our Facebook and Twitter pages and to our email list.

Please Note:
Please do not type your entries in all capital letters. We will delete and ask you to resubmit. Thank you.

  • Please capitalize properly and make sure this is the author of the book's name. This will be inserted into the title of the post.
  • Email will not be displayed or shared. This is the email address that will be added to the newsletter list if you choose to sign up.
  • Email will not be displayed or shared. This is the email address that you are using to pay for this listing. If it is the same as your email please type it again.
  • This is where you "sell" readers on checking out your book. Tell us about your book, what is it about, what makes it interesting to read? You can include editorial reviews with attribution. No html or links in this section. The only links that will be in the post are those from the form below.
  • Please name your image with your book title (no spaces) and upload an image no larger that 500 pixels wide and smaller than 100mb. Large images will cause the form to fail.
  • Readers love to know why writers write. Give them a bit of information to entice them to want to read your book because of why you wrote it.
  • Inquiring minds want to know.
  • This will not be in the post but will be considered for inclusion in a future Tips for Mystery Writers book, along with other information from the form.

  • You can post your first chapter here, or an excerpt you think will compel readers to want to grab your book. While this isn't a required field we highly recommend you post an except. BookGoodies.com ran a reader's survey and over 80% of readers check the Book Sample or the Look Inside the Book before deciding to buy a book.

    Please do NOT post directly from a Word document, post your content to a Notepad or other plain text editor first and then format it to be posted here.

    Submissions with a well formatted, interesting Book Sample/Excerpt and a good author bio will be considered for inclusion in special promotion opportunities.

  • This is how readers get to know you. Please tell us about yourself. No html or links are allowed in this section. More than one line would be great 🙂
  • Link directly to the video on YouTube or other video hosting site. Links to a webpage that includes a video will not be used. You MUST include the direct link here to YouTube, not a redirect or short link.
  • If your category isn't listed just use the closest category and list your genre in the tags. It is in your best interest to put your book in the right category so readers can find it.
  • If you submit more than 10 tags the rest will be deleted.

  • In all link fields below we need direct links to the sites - NO SHORTCODES, TRACKING LINKS, LINK SHORTENERS OR REDIRECTS

    Any authors that consistently post short codes, redirects, bit.ly or tinyurl or other such links will be banned, or at the very least your posts will be deleted. We want readers to get where they need to go 🙂 Thanks for understanding and cooperating! This includes azon links.

  • Links to Print Books

  • Links to Audiobooks

  • Links to eBooks

  • How to find your book's ASIN at Amazon. Find your book on Amazon, no matter what country site. There is a series of numbers and letters after /dp/ or /product/ - that series of numbers and letters before the next/ is your ASIN. It is also listed on your book detail page. ASIN-example1 ASIN-example2 In these examples the ASIN is B006ANR2JS

  • Links to Websites and Social Media

  • Link to your author page or profile on Facebook.
  • Please include the whole link here, not just the @username. Thanks!
  • This should not be /author/dashboard!
  • If appropriate, provide the link to your LinkedIn Profile.

  • Payment Information

    If you are an author that has paid for a Mystery Reads Membership to list your books please email deborah@bookgoodies.com for your prepay code. It was emailed out to everyone registered but some of you may have missed the email or lost the code. We will be happy to supply it to you!
  • If you have a prepay code from us or a discount coupon from our Author Newsletter enter it here and be sure to click the APPLY button BEFORE you continue to submit your book.
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    We reserve the right not to publish announcements at our discretion. Our decisions are final. No public domain or plr books will accepted.

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