Booky Giveaways

$39 for a fourteen-day giveaway, paid at the checkout. That is the whole price. No setup fee, no cut of your sales, no upsell. You supply the copies, which for a digital file costs you nothing.

You do, and that is how book giveaways work everywhere: the host is solely responsible for getting the prize to the winner. I draw the winner and send you their email address, and you send the book. I never hold your file or stand between you and the reader.

Not here. Ebook and audiobook only, so there are no addresses, no postage and no customs for either of us, and the giveaway can be open worldwide instead of one or two countries. Three to ten copies is the usual range, and on a digital file extra copies cost you nothing.

No, only the winner’s, and only so you can send the book. That is the standard everywhere and I hold it too. You also must not add the winner to a mailing list or ask them for a review, and I will not book you again if you do. My readers gave me their email for a word game, not to be sold to.

Within four weeks of the giveaway closing. The winner has a week to claim, and if they go quiet I draw again and tell you. If something goes wrong on your side, tell me before the four weeks is up rather than after.

Romantasy, and romance with a good fantasy thread running through it. Booky’s readers turn up for that one genre, so a book outside it will not run no matter what it pays. I check every book myself, usually within two or three days, and refund you in full if it is not right. I reserve the right to refuse a book for any reason, which is what keeps the shelf something readers trust.

Enough that the last giveaway took 114 entrants, and every one of them reads romantasy. I will give you the current numbers when you book, because they move month to month. What does not move is who they are: a genre audience rather than a general one, so your book is in front of people who already read what you write.

Most people run both, and at $39 this is meant to sit on top of what you already book rather than replace it. The difference is the room: on a big site your giveaway sits in a list of hundreds shown to everyone who reads anything, while here it is the only book given away that month, in front of romantasy readers only, and on two of the days the answer to the puzzle comes out of your book.

That is most of who books it. Indie and small press authors are the whole point, and your book sits on the same shelf as the traditionally published ones. I don’t care who published it, only whether my readers will want it.

Once your book is approved I email you the finished card, at least three days before your giveaway opens. Nothing to design and nothing to brief: post it to Stories, Reels or TikTok, send it to your newsletter or your street team. The link is printed on the card, so people can get to the game even from a screenshot.

At least three weeks. That covers checking your book, picking the word and getting your graphic to you a few days before you post it. Only one giveaway runs a month, so release weeks fill up first. If your release is sooner, email me anyway and I will tell you honestly whether I can fit you in.

Tell me before it goes live and you get a full refund or a later month, whichever you prefer. Once it is live I cannot refund it, because the word is locked into the queue, your graphic is made and your book has its shelf page.

Yes, and ARC readers are a good fit here because the people playing are already looking for their next romantasy read. Say it is an ARC when you book and I will label it as one on the giveaway, so nobody is expecting a finished copy.

Your two days stay in the Booky archive, where players work through old puzzles long after the day has passed. Your cover and buy link are still on them. Those archive plays are counted and they go in your report, so the number usually keeps climbing after the giveaway closes.

Romantasy readers, mostly from the subreddits where the genre actually lives. They turn up from a thread about ACOTAR or Fourth Wing, play a word game about the books they already read, and keep coming back daily. Nobody is here by accident and nobody is here for a different genre, which is the only reason a small audience is worth paying for.

No, and I would be careful with anyone in book promo who says they can. You also cannot ask the winner for a review, here or anywhere else that runs giveaways properly. What you get is the giveaway, the two feature days, the graphic, and an honest report of how many played, finished, entered and clicked.