OMG!

After years of applying, I FINALLY SCORED AN ALL-REGIONS BOOKBUB!!!

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, let me explain. Inclusion in the BookBub Featured Deals newsletter is the Holy Grail of book advertising. Actually getting one is roughly as difficult as getting a publisher. You can make your own BB ads for a small price, which will be seen by a small number of people, but getting into their weekly newsletter, sent to over 5 million subscribers, is what all book marketers aspire to.

Take a read of this post from Dan Koboldt to see more about the numbers involved, and why authors regularly subject themselves to potential disappointment in their efforts to score a place on the BB newsletter.

There is no feedback on rejection, so you will have absolutely no idea why your book didn’t qualify, although they do cite general reasons as: