Every month, the IASFA invites member authors to include their books our newsletter, based on genre. These promotion are sent to our large reader-facing newsletter audience. Books included must be free or 99cents. There is also a section for new releases—books published since the last newsletter. What to expect: Members report giving away several hundred […]
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Open Call – Science Fiction Anthology – The Expanding Universe 9
IASFA: The Expanding Universe 9 (TEU9) – Open Call. This is the ninth iteration of the TEU short story collections. I do one a year. Target is 20-25 stories. The cover is a Tom Edwards pre-made and that should give you an idea of what we’re looking at for content. Stories that would suit being […]
The Allure of Space Opera – Science Fiction’s most Epic genre by Tim Kaiver
In some of my best Space Opera reads of 2022, I’ve noticed a recurring theme of searching for humanity above all, and I love it! I pick up Space Opera for a glimpse at future civilizations, and when I do, I long for the humanity our heroes find that encourages them to push past whatever […]
IASFA – 2023 Free & 99 Cent promotions
In 2023, we will have both free and 99-cent books in the same promotion. All free is limiting for many authors where 99 cents opens the door to far greater worlds. For those who aren’t aware, setting a book’s price to free can be challenging because not all book distributors will match that price. But […]
IASFA Annual Meeting – Vegas, Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Since a huge swath of our members are already attending 20Books Vegas 2022 at Bally’s, from November 14-18, it’s during the show. Although it may seem like we’re not very active on here, we are active and moving the organization forward. We want to have more paid promotions and instead of the five-day Free promotions […]
IASFA – Post-Apocalyptic Free Book Promotion, May 22-26 – Open Call
Drop your first in series post-apoc titles into this promotion. If you’re in Kindle Unlimited, use your five free days. If you’re not and Amazon has price-matched to free, then use your books2read or other universal link. If not, then use a BookFunnel/Story Origin direct download (with email collection turned off). At the bottom of […]
Urban Fantasy – Open Call for a Paid Book Bundle, Sep 1-21
This open call is canceled – we did not get the response I was hoping for. We will not be running the UF Paid Book Bundle in September. This is an open call for IASFA’s Urban Fantasy Paid Book Bundle (includes all shades of Urban Fantasy that is not STEAMY – this isn’t a set […]
Newbie, just saying hello
I just discovered this group. I am uncertain of the etiquette and am searching the FAQ that I may learn the ways of the IASFA. Apologies if I run afoul of the rules; please chalk it up to the inept bumbling of an untrained padawan fresh off the Internet. I come to introduce myself. I […]
Military Science Fiction Free Book Promotion, March 27-31 Open Call
IASFA – Military Science Fiction Free Book Promotion, March 27-31Books that are free during that timeframe (could be KDP Select free days, could be permafree, could be direct download free) on the military science fiction theme. For IASFA members only – upload your book here and make sure you get the drop down menus correct, […]
The Expanding Universe 8 – Open Call
Captain’s Log: The Expanding Universe 8 (TEU8) – Open Call. This is the eighth iteration of the TEU short story collections. I do one a year. Target is 20-25 stories. The cover is a Tom Edwards pre-made and that should give you an idea of what we’re looking at for content. Stories that would suit […]
December 2021 results and 2022 opportunities
IASFA – December’s Space Opera Free Book Promotion… the numbers2093 unique visitors 5680 clicks 16,196 page views We’re static at 6558 subscribers but I’ve started a Facebook ad to build subscribers touting the five free books graciously offered by our members. We need to get to 10,000 because that’s a new number that’s higher than […]
The Chronicles of Deneb
Hello to anyone who trips across my blog. Probably accidentally, right? So today has been a day full of firsts. And seconds. And yes, even thirds. First time I’ve ever worked on a pop up for my website. First time I’ve used Inkarnate to build planetary maps. Second time I’ve reworked a book cover. And […]
IASFA Now Sponsors a Podcast
All things fans! Although the podcast is titles Dudes in Hyperspace, it’s about all the things that our fans would/should/could enjoy:) This is a place for Science Fiction and Fantasy fans to hang out and listen, see what’s up, and check out the guest speakers who can talk about all things SFF. For our members, […]
Open Call – IASFA Paid Space Adventure Book Bundle
IASFA – Many are called but few chosen. The IASFA Space Adventure Book Bundle from March 1-21, 2022By paid, I mean that we push this set for direct sale via BookFunnel and an equal share (minus 15% for BF and any PayPal fees) of the revenue is paid out to all participants. Open call for […]
Urban Fantasy Free Book Promotion Nov 16-20
This is for all Urban Fantasy. Can you make your Urban Fantasy first in series free to buy from November 16-20? Both Permafree and Kindle Unlimited (use your free days as part of the KU program)? Then you’ll want to join this massive promotion as a benefit of being a member of the International Association […]
IASFA Member Pins
I had 200 of these made and they were a bit more expensive than what I wanted to spend, but I bought them anyway. IASFA is not-for-profit. We don’t have a pool for these kinds of things, but I think we probably need to make them available for members to purchase as not everyone will […]
IASFA Promotions for 2022 (Free and Paid)
IASFA – Promotions in 2022We’re going to go with both FREE and 99 cents in the monthly promotions without the additional listbuilding element (which we will do separately through paid advertising to get us over that 10k list hump – we will ask you to include language in your newsletters to ask folks to join […]
Fantasy Free Book Promotion
Media Kit for Participating Authors in the IASFA Free Book Promotion that runs from October 12-16. We strongly encourage participating authors to hit their list during this promotion and push the info below – you are more than welcome to copy/paste what we have or customize the promo language for your readership. The purpose of […]
IASFA – what’s coming up from August through December 2021?
Right now, we’re running the Science Fiction Romance Free Book Promotion – that is through August 14. We’ve hit our list and have asked participating authors to hit their lists with the promotion and everyone wins. That’s what the free book promotions are all about – build IASFA’s list and get extra focused eyeballs on […]
Sci-Fi Romance Free Book Promotion Aug 10-14, 2021 – media kit/marketing information
Media Kit for Participating Authors in the IASFA Free Book Promotion that runs from August 10-14. We strongly encourage participating authors to hit their list during this promotion and push the info below – you are more than welcome to copy/paste what we have or customize the promo language for your readership. The purpose of […]
IASFA Newsletter & Promotions
For the New Release listing in last week’s newsletter, we had over 800 total clicks. That’s on all titles combined. I still call it a huge win because people are looking and these people are readers of your genre. Your cover and blurb must stand on their own to draw readers to your books. That’s […]
IASFA Free Dark Fantasy Promotion – July 13-17
Looking good on the submissions. We’ll have a media kit pretty soon. If you have a title that fits and can make it free, then upload it here https://iasfa.org/draft-listing/. If you can’t get Amazon to price match to free, just put your title on BookFunnel and make sure that email collection is off and give […]
IASFA – New Book Announcement in the Monthly Newsletter
IASFA New Book Announcement – in each newsletter announcing the next round of free books as part of the monthly promotion. We will try running this announcement and see if we can get any traction. It’s for books published in the month since the last newsletter. There can be no overlap. The first newsletter with […]
Dark Fantasy Free Book Promotion
Next up in the monthly free book promotions is Dark Fantasy from July 13-17. This isn’t Dark Romance but anything else that falls into the Dark Fantasy realm. If your book is in Kindle Unlimited, just use your five Free Promotion days in order to participate. If your book is permafree, then sign up. https://iasfa.org/book-entry-form/ […]