My Book Cave

Impressive results

Used My Book Cave a number of times. Promos have always done well.

Great for Free Promo

I just recently finished a free promotion with Book Cave, my very first, and it outperformed all other promotions including freebooksy and book barbarian by a large margin. It was also the cheapest of the three.

Good promo site

I received about 30 downloads when I used this site couple days ago

Magnet Service

I use My Book Cave for delivering my reader magnet, and for lining up free promos/giveaway groups for my newsletter readers. I've not used it recently for a direct promo, but it has been excellent for what I do use.

Reaching new readers

I'm getting a consistent number of new sign ups to my mailing list. Provided you have a quality product you get results. I recommend joining as many groups within this as your genre allows.

All my books have been promoted here

They actually rate lower than four-stars, but I am on their site for the free <group> promo offered that you sign-up for. Someone runs these group promos, they run for a month, and though they don't produce spectacular results, it helps to promote them with your newsletters. They are expensive when it comes to promo - $25US - and you can expect middling sales, 5-20 book sales that day - but there are other things on their site to stay with them. Just don't bother more than every few months.

Not the best if you have LGBTQ characters

Per their own policies, they consider LGBTQ books to be "political" and "controversial" and are quick to label books that have LGBTQ characters simply existing to be an attack on religious groups--yes, even fantasy books that are set in a secondary world where there is not even a church-stand in or where gods or religion are never mentioned. But they don't label books by christian authors to be inherently political or controversial. Their readers heavily skew on the christian side and are quick to 1-star books for having a character utter "oh my god" even once as it's considered "profanity." Their guidelines on what counts as "profane" also skews heavily christian, with words that would be considered profane by other religions seeminly okay and just dandy. They say their profanity ratings and all that are there to make sure the right readers find the right books, and it's not a judgement. But then they include some incredibly judgemental language in their policy that makes it obvious they don't actually think writers should include profantiy for any reason. Even if the inclusion of profanity is for things like demonstrating character motivations, temperament, etc. They also consider things like "darn" and "heck" as trying to "get around" profanity and are just as bad as the actual words they are substituting for. They also accuse authors in their policy of "constantly lying" about their profanity, when maybe the author just didn't have the time to open up and manually count every instance of "darn" in their 150,000 word manuscript and estimated. But also, they think the EXISTENCE of a queer character in your book is in and of itself too controversial and an attack on readers of faith. So. Take that as you will and extrapolate to what you think their reader base is and if you want to promote your books here.

Good Option to Consider

I have used My Book Cave four times. They have requirement for books to have ratings which is good, but can limit new writers in their desire to promote. I focused on two of my titles and have seen moderate but consistent results for discounted pricing at 99 cents. It should definitely be part of the marketing mix.

One Of The Most Consistent Book Services

Out of all the book promotion services that I've used throughout the years, Book Cave has offered the most consistent results. In addition to their retailer promotions, they also offer several free services to help build your newsletter as well. Also, they just announced the ability to promote audiobook deals which I'm excited about.