Kindle Scout Promotion.

Kindle Scout is a program where you can submit a finished MS to them, and they put up a campaign. People can go on their site and read a sample, and then if they like it, nominate it. There's no charge to the reader to do this and if they pick your book, the author gets offered a contract with an advance and they do some promo.


While they don't base their decisions on who to offer to on the nominations alone, the more you get the better. After all, I could write a sucky book and have tons of friends who nominate it so it's hot and trending up the wazzo. Or I might write a great book but be a wallflower.


There's a thread on Kindle Scout itself. So I'm not asking for opinions on the program here.

I decided to take a chance and go for it. My campaign has started now.

Promoting this is a little different because you're not asking for people to actually buy it. Just go to the site and nominate it. It's free and they may get the book for free. (Anyone who nominates it gets an advance copy for free and are invited to leave reviews.)

So far, I've been putting it on Facebook Book advertising sites and tweeting it like a madman, using banners I created on picmonkey. I put in on tumblr too. I even have hand outs I'm giving to people in my office asking them to do it.

Can anyone think of another way to try and drive it?

I thought about a thunderclap, but I don't know that I'd get the 100.