No. You can add your books free and a link to your preferred sales channels. We don’t sell your book, it is a way to promote. So if anything, it has a positive impact on KU.

We also don’t add affiliate links.

Yes! You can add your book details and publish to the site quickly and easily for free.

If you save your book as a draft, don’t forget to click the green Publish Button at the top of your ‘Edit Book’ page – otherwise you book won’t appear on the site.

There is an admin charge to submit to a project, of £29.

The best way to make the most of the opportunity is to upload and publish all the books to the platform so that readers can view them and click through to your sales link – this is FREE.

Only submit the first book, or the one that you feel best represents the series, to the project.

If you have more than one crime series, or more than one standalone crime book, then you might want to consider making more than one submission, but bear in mind that your readers may then have to split their votes.

No. For promoting your books on the site and to submit to a project, we ask you to upload a book cover image and then add details such as a synopsis or blurb to describe your story.

 Technically there is one winner of the main prize, but just as with a search like The X Factor or The Voice in music we’re looking for talented authors with great stories that match the needs of producers and channels, so we hope there will be more opportunities along the way.

And as many of you already recognise, the is as much a marketing opportunity and chance to get attention for you and your books as anything else.

The BooksOffice system records and time-stamps every transaction. We record the person who has voted, the story and author they have voted for, the number of votes allocated and the exact time the votes were cast.

The system itself caluclates the total, but each is individually and independently verifiable.

Below are the videos that show how your readers view and participate in the voting process and how they can see their votes and how they were cast in their own dashboards. There’s also a video that shows how they can invite friends to vote.

CLICK ON THE REGISTER BUTTON ABOVE AND SELECT READER AS USER TYPE.

YOUR PROFILE IS NOT PUBLIC, BUT WE WOULD LOVE YOU TO COMPLETE IT AND JOIN US ON FUTURE PROJECTS!

THERE’S A SIMPLE FORM ON YOUR PROFILE PAGE FOR YOU TO INVITE FRIENDS. YOU RECEIVE 5 ADDITIONAL TICKETS FOR EVERY 2 FRIENDS THAT SIGN UP.

1. ENTER THEIR EMAIL ADDRESSES

2. PRESS SEND

3. THE FORM WILL UPDATE WITH THE NUMBER OF EMAILS YOU HAVE SENT AND THE NUMBER ACCEPTED

1. CLICK ON THE ‘VOTING’ TAB IN THE TOP MENU BAR

2. SELECT THE INFO OR VOTING BUTTON ON THE CRIME DRAMA BOX

3. SCROLL DOWN THROUGH THE LIST OF BOOKS ON THE VOTING PAGE

4. CLICK ON THE BOOK ICONS TO SEE THE AUTHOR’S PITCH INFORMATION

5. WHEN YOU ARE READY, CLICK ON THE TICKET ICON AND ENTER THE NUMBER OF TICKETS YOU WANT TO GIVE TO AN AUTHOR (this will only be live after the voting start date). YOU CAN GIVE AS MANY VOTES AS YOU LIKE TO ANY AUTHOR

CLICK ON THE HEART ICON TO LIKE A BOOK

VISIT THE AUTHOR’S PROFILE PAGE TO LIKE AN AUTHOR

PLEASE SHARE OUR PAGE TO YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA TO LET THEM KNOW YOU VOTED!