Month: August 2012

When you read that sign at the zoo, you don’t feed the animals, right? It’s in everyone’s best interest, right? Well here’s our sign:

PLEASE FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES

Here at Indies Unlimited, we’re run by volunteers. We’re here to help authors and to provide an innovative platform where readers can communicate directly with them. How great is that? Help us to help you by following some very simple guidelines.

#1 – Please use the query form. Include a purchase link to your book so we can check it out. Please do not yell at us that you cannot include attachments. We’re not ready for your attachments yet.

#2 – Please do not hunt down our personal email addresses so you may send us unsolicited attachments. When we’re ready for your attachments, we’ll ask. Please use the query form and be patient.

#3 – Please do not embed links in emails or documents. It’s okay if it’s an ugly, long link – we like them that way because we have to copy and paste them. If we have to click on them and open another window, etc. etc., it takes longer – and we like to know what we’re clicking on.

#4 – Please do not embed images in emails or documents. We’ll have to convert them and then crop them and all this other stuff. Or, we’ll use a tiny image of your book cover from an online site that won’t look as nice. The third option is that we’ll just put your feature to the bottom of the pile because we don’t have time to deal with it.

#5 – Please make sure your attachments are not over 500kb. We cannot accept your 10 mb video trailer or your 6 mb book cover. We have a limit on our mailbox accounts. If humongous attachments actually make it through to our inboxes, those emails will be deleted and you will be notified to resend in an acceptable size. And your feature will probably go to the bottom of the pile.

Remember, we’re here to help you. Please make that a pleasant experience for us all. You can find the submissions guidelines here.