The Fussy Librarian

Simply the best

For me, this is the best book promotion site for promoting free books. There are several genres to choose from at different prices, ranging from $15 for African American-themed books to $79 for the more popular genres like Mystery, Thriller and Romance. If you want to see a spike in downloads, then The Fussy Librarian regularly provides around a thousand for me. Any purchase leads to a discount on the next promotion. It's an effortless process, so if you're prepared to part with some cash to give away free books and hopefully generate reviews, this is the site for you.

Good pricing decent platform

I've been using Fussy Librarian for years now. They're good about keeping your data making it easy to re-submit new promotions and their pricing is very fair. Results vary but they're always included in my rotation.

Good results

Mainly good results. I sometimes find the newsletter a little messy. Very responsive to requests, including when book was missed off newsletter by mistake.

Solid

Nonfiction: It's worth to sign up to their list, they quite often offer good discounts. When discounted, it is almost as good as Book Raid. At the full price not worth it, but will always sell a few copies, unlike other services.

Awesome

I have only recently tried a few promotion services, and the day I had my promotion with Fussy Library, was one of the best experience. It went out on the email on time and everything was run amazingly.

Top Notch

Not only does Fussy deliver great results, the team there is super engaged. They donated a promotion slot to a charity anthology I was organizing because they cared about the cause!

Always Profitable!

I always use Fussy Librarian to promote my cozy mysteries when they’re on sale. Wonderful service, too! Book early because spots can fill up fast.

One of the best!

Over the years, it sometimes feels like I've tried almost every promo site out there. Fussy's free book promos are one of only three that have consistently earned me money. I use them with every new release and they are highly recommended.

Usually very good

This is a bit of an erratic one. These promos usually sell well, but I have had some promos do poorly. Others have done very well. I find them most successful with free promotions. 99c is more erratic. The price is fair and they're approachable and easy to work... so I still give 5 stars :)

PNR and SFR

I’ve used TFL a few times now over the past 3 years, and overall I have to say it’s meh for me. My first few sales I stacked as many promos as I could afford so it was hard to tell exactly which clicks came from where, so I started doing a single paid newsletter each day of the promo, and I found TFL to be worse than I’d originally thought. Maybe it’s just my genre, I write steamy PNR and SFR, but I stopped using them for a while because it wasn’t worth the cost. I tried again recently to see if anything had changed, and because they had a sale going, but I still found it to be middling at best. If I have the extra money or am really trying to push something, I would book them, but if I’m trying to limit spend, I would choose something else.

Disappointed

With all the hype, I was prepared for a better return on investment, which I did not receive with this promotion. My book, however, was not free, so I think that is why the promotion failed.

Mixed Results

This used to be one of my go-to places, but lately I'm not seeing the results that I did before. I've done several 99c, free, and 1.99 deals in the last year for romance and rom com, and the last couple of times I had zero sales. It could be something on my end of course, but this is not my go-to anymore, especially since the price has gone up. Worth a try, because it might work for others and the price isn't terrible.

One of the best

I received over 30 downloads when I used this site this week.

A Go-To Service

If I'm planning a promotion it includes this site without a doubt. Affordable and cost effective - and it's also one of my favorites as a reader!

Usually a good service, but inconsistent

I like Fussy Librarian, which is easy to use, reasonably priced, and ordinarily produces pretty decent results. However, sometimes this promotion service performs far less well for me, for reasons which are mysterious. Possibly lower mailing list turnover? Maybe something else? It's a service I use fairly often, but these days I may schedule promotion with Fussy Librarian at somewhat longer intervals, maybe six months instead of three.

My Top Choice

I've always had good results with them and they have really great customer service. When I do a promo, they're my first choice. I've used them to promote historical fiction. Don't use them too often though. You'll definitely see the best results when you have them promote your book less often (for example, every six months instead of every three months, or even less often than that). It's totally worth it though.

Effective

An effective way of getting your work promoted at a reasonable cost. Easy to work with and reliable.

All my books have been promoted here

The cost is a little higher than $13 these days, but it's still worth going to promote here. You can expect to sell anywhere from 3-30 books the day of the promo. But those are decent results, compared to other sites out there.

Refuses to track clicks

They claim they can't record click information. They really should use better newsletter providers, or just a simple smart-link website. I won't hire a service that won't track clicks.

Downloads

Always a good amount of downloads for a free book. And it's a reasonable price, especially when the Head Librarian offers a discount

One of my top five promotion sites

I have five sites that I always book first, and Fussy Librarian is one of them. For a free book, on average I get 400 - 500 downloads.

OK Mid tier option

Not exceptional results but a bit cheaper than the really expensive options and can usually give a decent boost.

"Must Have" this one in all of my promo stacks.

Good number of sales, easy to book, awesome options for adding a secondary option. I'm not a KU author, and I don't try to mess around to make books free via price matching, so I only ever do $0.99 promos. I do appreciate that Fussy Librarian accepts books that aren't as discounted, too.