For authors
Get your book in front of the right readers
Spotlight on Indie helps self-published and small-press authors get noticed, gain readers, and grow an audience, with free listings and content ratings that say more than a blurb ever could.
Free ebook listings
Listings are free for indie titles that meet our guidelines. We don't need your ebook files, just the details, so Kindle Unlimited authors can take part too. Add purchase links to your favorite retailers, whether you're exclusive to Amazon KU or widely distributed.
What we accept
This is a home for good stories without an agenda: all the fun and none of “the message.” Books should be:
- Published or available for pre-order (no Kickstarters or unreleased titles).
- A professional, appropriate cover with title, author, and series info.
- Honest content ratings so readers know what to expect.
All lengths welcome
Categorised by standard word-count ranges.
Short Story
up to 7,500 words
Novelette
7,500–17,500 words
Novella
17,500–40,000 words
Novel
over 40,000 words
Comic / Graphic Novel
any length
Serial Fiction
Stories first, no hidden agenda
We celebrate valiant heroes, biological truths, and traditional values, books that focus on craft and character rather than pushing a modern ideological message.
That means no pornographic content (sexual abuse may be referenced in sympathy with a victim, never written as graphic scenes), and covers with a modicum of modesty. No anti-capitalist/pro-socialist or other Marxist propaganda of any type, among other modern ideologies. Works promoting those ideas will be rejected. Our purpose is to serve readers who believe in individual liberties and traditional beliefs.
We also spotlight books written by real people who write for the love of storytelling, not AI “book factories” churning out titles for profit. We're not anti-AI; we're pro-author.
Above all: be honest. Matching readers to the right books depends on it.
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