2024 Official Dates: Dark Mode Stuff Your Kindle With Dark Fiction
Attention authors and readers! Please take note of the following dates for Dark Mode Books' Stuff Your Kindle Day
Hello, everyone! It’s Jinapher, your host for the Dark Mode Stuff Your Kindle Event.
I am dropping in with the official dates for author sign-ups, the tag masterlist announcement, and the actual SYK day.
We have surpassed 2,000 sign-ups/subscribers which is so exciting! I want to see this number continue to grow, so please continue to use the marketing freebies to spread the word if you can!
I have added three new carousel slides to the marketing freebies drive in a folder labeled “Dark Mode Dates Announcement” which includes all the dates if you wish to share them on TikTok or Instagram.
At A Glance / Navigation:
Author Sign-Ups — Monday, June 3rd, 2024, 7:30 AM PST: First come, First Serve.
The sign-up forms will remain open until at least 25 spots have been filled for each of the main categories (Fantasy, Romance, Horror) with a max of 35 titles per category. This means the event will range between 75 to 105 free ebooks. There will be a form for each category.
**Sometimes emails don’t send in bulk but in tiers. If you don’t see the author sign up email in your inbox at 7:30 on Monday, then please come to the full website and select the author sign up post, which will be live on the home page.
Authors are limited to one title for the event and are responsible for submitting their title to the appropriate category.
I have created a sample book listing here, so you can get an idea of how your book will be promoted.
Authors must submit:
A PNG of their book cover
A link to their book on Amazon
A short summary if you do not want us to pull from your Amazon blurb
Select tags from a provided list, as well as provide any additional tags you would love to be featured
We cannot promise that every single tag will be listed. We are selecting tags based on reader interest and submissions.
Provide a full list of your book’s content warnings
Note your general location/time zone in case you’re outside the United States and your free day may line up differently
Optional: Links to your Instagram, TikTok, Author Website
***I recommend having everything except your potential tags ready, so you can easily copy and paste into the Google Form.
Authors are responsible for ensuring their book is set to FREE/$0.00 on the day of the event.
If you’ve never done this before, please reference this page on Amazon with all the details and instructions. Amazon requires you to set the free date at least one day before the scheduled event and you are only allowed to set your book for free for up to 5 days within a KDP Enrollment period. So if you are participating in any of the other SYK days, be sure you are setting aside at least one day for Dark Mode.
If you have a question, then please leave it in the comments below. If it’s a private question, you can send me a direct message.
Author Acceptances / Titles Announcement — Friday, June 14th, 2024
A newsletter will go out to all subscribers (authors + readers) of all titles to be included in the event. Myself and some fellow cohosts will then begin to get author pages set up on the website over the next few weeks.
As an author, this blast will let you know if you will be part of the event.
As a reader, you will be more than welcome to begin taking a look at that list and see what interests you.
All titles will be uploaded to the website by the July 9th Masterlist blast.
Tag Masterlist Publishes — Tuesday, July 9th, 2024
I will send the completed and finalized list of all titles with their tags and links to their pages on the website to all subscribers.
This will be a single page on the website that houses all of the tags. These tags will be organized by Overarching Category (Fantasy, Romance, Horror), Representation/Inclusivity, Tropes, Romance Levels, and Content Warnings.
Stuff Your Kindle Event — Saturday, July 20th, 2024
This is very important, so readers please take note!
As the event continues to grow, the website will receive a ton of traffic on the actual SYK day. This is being hosted through Substack, so IF (and it’s a big if, but just in case) the website crashes due to traffic, I will have no way of getting it back up without waiting for the traffic to die down.
I highly, HIGHLY recommend that when the Tag Masterlist sends on July 9th, you go ahead and make yourself a list on Amazon that you save any books to you want to download. This way, you don’t even have to worry about the website on the day of the event and can head straight to Amazon.
This is a perk of being subscribed because you will have a couple of weeks to check out all the authors and all the books via the tags, really curate your list, and know exactly what you’re after.
If an author is located beyond the United States, it will be clearly marked on their book’s page. While the event blast will go out on the SYK day, it’s possible some titles could come and go at different times depending on locations. So definitely make sure, if there’s an international author on your list, you note when to download their title.
Jinapher J. Hoffman is the Author of Wrathos Books, a dark fantasy multiverse of feminine rage, and the Creator/Host of Dark Mode Books, home of the Stuff Your Kindle With Dark Fiction event. To support her, you can follow Jinapher on TikTok, Instagram, Amazon, GoodReads, + Threads.
For additional links, current Wrathos Kindle Deals, and more,check out Jinapher’s LinkTree.
Also...thanks for organising!
Hi :)
What time zone are the dates for applications? I live in the UK ❤️