Interested in promoting your book with Hot Stuff Romance? Make sure to check out all the guidelines below before requesting a book promotion with us.
NOTE: Hot Stuff Romance has moved to a newsletter and social media only model for advertising. We no longer advertise books on our website directly.
What is a Free Book Promotion?
Every Friday, HSR sends out a dedicated email advertising free books.
Your book must be free for the entire day of your promotion. Failure to ensure that your book is appropriately priced during this period may result in us no longer being able to accept your promotion requests.
Please also note: Books must be TOTALLY free, and not just "free with Kindle Unlimited".
Your free book must be available at a retailer like Amazon or B&N for this type of promotion. We currently do not advertise books at "Instafreebie" and other similar non-retailer sites as a part of our Free Book promotions.
What's the Book of the Week promotion?
Once a week we send out a special newsletter with one single book prominently advertised.
Free and 99 cent pricing is strongly encouraged for this promotion. Titles must be priced no higher than $4.99.
Your discounted price must remain in effect for the day of and the day after the promotion.
We will not consider promotion of any titles that have already been advertised in any HSR newsletter within the previous 6 months.
What's the Featured Newsletter Ad?
With the Featured Newsletter Ad, our newsletter becomes your newsletter. We'll advertise your book to thousands of engaged readers who are interested in exactly your type of romance book. Sometimes your book will appear all by itself, sometimes it will appear alongside other books which are written within the same genre.
Featured Newsletter Ad emails go out every day.
How many subscribers does Hot Stuff Romance have?
As of December 2022, Hot Stuff Romance has over 35,000 subscribers.
While that may not seem like all that many compared to other services which claim to have hundreds of thousands of subscribers, our base membership was built in a completely organic way through word of mouth and several national best-selling, multi-author romance boxed sets.
Our subscribers are all readers and they all signed up to get deals, discounts, and freebies on the types of books they love...not because they somehow wound up on a list and they don't know why.
Open rates (the number of subscribers who actually open the email and read it) on our newsletter emails average around 30-35%, while the open rates of most other promotional services are much, much lower - some even as low as 1-2%.
And we are growing each and every day!
What can I send you to promote?
Hot Stuff Romance accepts every theme and subgenre of romance there is. That's a lotta types of romance!
HSR does NOT accept Erotica (Erotic Romance is fine). Sorry!
Additionally, any books you submit must be available for sale at the time of your promotion. We don't advertise books while they are on pre-order.
Please do not use URL shorteners, affiliate codes, or tracking links with your URLs - they will do you no good since we set our own special links for each book.
We check the prices on books each morning at 7:00 A.M. EST, so please make sure your book's pricing is appropriately set before then. We will not be able to run your promotion if the price has not been set accordingly.
Can I reserve a spot for my book if it isn't published yet?
Yes!
How far out may I schedule a promotion?
Want to reserve a spot for the Year 3030? Ok, weird, but that's fine. We'll reserve bookings as far in advance as you want.
You already ran a promotion for my book. Can I request a promotion on it again?
Yes! Be aware, however, that we do not accept requests for promotion on books that have already been advertised in our newsletter within the past 30 days.
Other Important Guidelines To Read Before You Submit:
NOTE: Hot Stuff Romance has moved to a newsletter and social media only model for advertising. We no longer advertise books on our website directly.
What is a Free Book Promotion?
Every Friday, HSR sends out a dedicated email advertising free books.
Your book must be free for the entire day of your promotion. Failure to ensure that your book is appropriately priced during this period may result in us no longer being able to accept your promotion requests.
Please also note: Books must be TOTALLY free, and not just "free with Kindle Unlimited".
Your free book must be available at a retailer like Amazon or B&N for this type of promotion. We currently do not advertise books at "Instafreebie" and other similar non-retailer sites as a part of our Free Book promotions.
What's the Book of the Week promotion?
Once a week we send out a special newsletter with one single book prominently advertised.
Free and 99 cent pricing is strongly encouraged for this promotion. Titles must be priced no higher than $4.99.
Your discounted price must remain in effect for the day of and the day after the promotion.
We will not consider promotion of any titles that have already been advertised in any HSR newsletter within the previous 6 months.
What's the Featured Newsletter Ad?
With the Featured Newsletter Ad, our newsletter becomes your newsletter. We'll advertise your book to thousands of engaged readers who are interested in exactly your type of romance book. Sometimes your book will appear all by itself, sometimes it will appear alongside other books which are written within the same genre.
Featured Newsletter Ad emails go out every day.
How many subscribers does Hot Stuff Romance have?
As of December 2022, Hot Stuff Romance has over 35,000 subscribers.
While that may not seem like all that many compared to other services which claim to have hundreds of thousands of subscribers, our base membership was built in a completely organic way through word of mouth and several national best-selling, multi-author romance boxed sets.
Our subscribers are all readers and they all signed up to get deals, discounts, and freebies on the types of books they love...not because they somehow wound up on a list and they don't know why.
Open rates (the number of subscribers who actually open the email and read it) on our newsletter emails average around 30-35%, while the open rates of most other promotional services are much, much lower - some even as low as 1-2%.
And we are growing each and every day!
What can I send you to promote?
Hot Stuff Romance accepts every theme and subgenre of romance there is. That's a lotta types of romance!
HSR does NOT accept Erotica (Erotic Romance is fine). Sorry!
Additionally, any books you submit must be available for sale at the time of your promotion. We don't advertise books while they are on pre-order.
Please do not use URL shorteners, affiliate codes, or tracking links with your URLs - they will do you no good since we set our own special links for each book.
We check the prices on books each morning at 7:00 A.M. EST, so please make sure your book's pricing is appropriately set before then. We will not be able to run your promotion if the price has not been set accordingly.
Can I reserve a spot for my book if it isn't published yet?
Yes!
How far out may I schedule a promotion?
Want to reserve a spot for the Year 3030? Ok, weird, but that's fine. We'll reserve bookings as far in advance as you want.
You already ran a promotion for my book. Can I request a promotion on it again?
Yes! Be aware, however, that we do not accept requests for promotion on books that have already been advertised in our newsletter within the past 30 days.
Other Important Guidelines To Read Before You Submit:
- Hot Stuff Romance reserves the right to decline or cancel any promotion at any time for any reason.
- If your promotion is declined or cancelled a refund will be initiated within 48 hours.
- Any discount or free pricing must stay the same for the entire day of the promotion.
- Each morning we check prices on the books to be promoted that day to ensure they have been properly discounted. Books that are not at the agreed-upon pricing by the time the newsletter runs (usually around 3:00 PM EST) will not appear in our newsletter. We STRONGLY advise authors to initiate any necessary price changes 24 hours or more in advance of their promotion.
- All promotional requests must adhere to our guidelines or the promotion will be declined.
- All promotional requests will be evaluated to determine if quality of the work is up to our standards. This includes cover image quality and how attractive your promotion will be to our subscribers.
- If your promotional request is declined, we will send you an email letting you know. Chances are good that if your book was denied, it was because your cover art did not meet our standards or your submission somehow violates our guidelines found here. Sometimes though, we just don't have room and there's too much demand - and unfortunately, we can't run every book that is sent to us for promotion.
- By filling out a form and submitting your book to us for promotion, you agree to give Hot Stuff Romance permission to display your book cover and blurb to our subscribers and on our website.
- Hot Stuff Romance is a participant in the Amazon Services, LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.