The Planetary Extreme Baseball Alliance

Friends, I ask for a favor that should only take a minute or two of your time. My novel, “Lord Bart and the Leagues of SIP and ALE,” is now entered in Amazon’s “Kindle Scout” program — and I need you to nominate it.

How does it work? The Kindle Scout page explains it best:

Kindle Scout is reader-powered publishing for new, never-before-published books. It’s a place where readers help decide if a book gets published. Selected books will be published by Kindle Press.

All you need to do to nominate my book is go to this page:

https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/2XS69DO0ZTBW2

You’ll have to be logged in to your Amazon account in order to nominate it. And if enough of you do so today, it could push the book into the “Hot and Trending” section of the Scout page. That will increase its visibility (which means more eyeballs on my book and that, in turn, could snowball into more nominations).

Please keep in mind, nominating the book does NOT obligate you to buy it. Your cost is nothing but a few minutes of your time. In fact, the great thing is that if my book is chosen, you will get a free Kindle copy of it as a thanks. If the book is not chosen, I do intend to find another publisher or self-publish.

Being chosen by Kindle Press would put the immense reach of Amazon marketing behind the book. A lot of nominations does not guarantee it would be chosen, but it apparently helps.

Thanks so much for helping out.

DONE!!

Good Luck Mike!

Done.

Beautiful cover art by the way!

Woot! awesome, Mike. Congrats -- looks like it's already made the trending page as of 5 mins ago.

Can we get a copy of it yet to read? Nominated with both our accounts, btw.

Supported, and passed along to my other online league

Thank you all for your help! Yes, it has made the Hot and Trending on its first day, which surprises me in part because mine is one of 17 books to start their campaign today. So your help really helps!

Sandgnats wrote:Can we get a copy of it yet to read?

I'm afraid we'll have to wait. If it gets selected, everyone who nominated it gets a free eBook. If it doesn't get picked, I will self-publish and will let you know when its available.

Short version: nah, ya gotta wait!

By the way, noted SF author and PEBA owner Ron Collins was kind enough to provide a blurb, which will appear on the print copy back cover and in ads.

Ron Collins wrote:In a steampunk world where baseball is the only safeguard against a bloody civil war, Mike Dunn takes to the hill and twirls a complete-game mystery with more twists than a knuckle-curve. "Lord Bart and the Leagues of SIP and ALE" is chock full of conniving characters, perilous politics, and super-secret scientifika, all mixed together and served over the course of an epic pennant race.

Nice work. Nomination complete. Good luck!

Added my nomination! Looking forward to reading it.

Nominated and passed along the link to family and friends, and asked them to share it with their family and friends.

Nominated and shared with my friends. I love the cover art, Mike!

Ocelots wrote:Nominated and passed along the link to family and friends, and asked them to share it with their family and friends.

Very cool, thank you Matt, and everyone else!

Having read the draft, I can and have whole-heartedly nominated good ol' Lord Bart.

I'm working on getting my wife to nominate... she's a tough sell!

Lions wrote:I'm working on getting my wife to nominate... she's a tough sell!

Good for her for showing integrity. But Mike's prose will win her over in the end.

My wife started reading this a while ago. I said, "You don't have to read it, its steampunk and baseball. You have no interest in either."

She said, "But you wrote it. I have to read it." Then she tried it. DIdn't get far before losing interest . But she did nominate it!

So I'll probably jinx things by saying this but the book has now stayed in Hot and Trending (which makes it more prominent) for about 36 hours straight. Thanks again, folks! Only 28 more days to go!