by Jay Hartman
Untreed Reads purchased ad space for August with IBPA to promote their mystery short story anthology Peace, Love, and Crime: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the '60s. The ad went out to thousands of libraries worldwide on July 26th. Untreed Reads was the only publisher to mention Overdrive as one of the places to find the title.
I wrote to Overdrive to ask about a way they could help us get more visibility for the title. I explained we did a grassroots campaign to get people to request it from their local library through the Overdrive app by following the instructions in my October 2021 column.
I'm thrilled to announce not only do they support us, but for the first time in twelve years, Untreed Reads will be the focus of an editorial piece in Overdrive's newsletter, which goes out to thousands and thousands of subscribers around the world. I can't overstate this visibility's importance to our catalog and authors.
Overdrive asked Untreed Reads to provide 20 additional titles for this editorial, along with Peace, Love, and Crime. So KD (Publisher) and I put our heads together, and here's the stellar lineup:
The editorial will appear sometime in late August. I encourage you to go to the Overdrive app for your local library and request they carry these titles!
Jay A. Hartman, editor-in-chief at Untreed Reads Publishing, founded Untreed Reads to promote ebooks with an emphasis on independent authors and publishers. He’s written about the ebook industry for fifteen years and previously served as content editor for KnowBetter.com, one of the internet’s oldest sites reporting on ebooks and epublishing.
