Can’t wait to get your books in Studio Moonfall? Let’s sneak you right in!
Cut the Line is a Books-for-Marketing barter service at Studio Moonfall – 8 copies of your book in trade for a year of marketing along with a handful of evergreen promotions.
2025 Cut the Line Submissions are OPEN!!!
At a Glance
• Author Alley Profile Page
• In-Store Photos – One Year Series
• In-Store/Email Promotions and Special Deals
The Barter:
Save your time and money on a unique bit of marketing and help Studio Moonfall save the upfront cost of shelving your book. This promotion is done as a trade for 8 copies of a single title. Once the initial batch runs out, we’ll continue to stock the book throughout the promo by buying it wholesale or directly from you.
Once the year-long promotion expires, you can opt-in and the lower cost of 6 books.
Requirements:
Although the store has a haunted bookshop/fantasy vibe, we accept all genres of indie books!
Of course, we want our customers to get the best experience while reading your books, so be sure to check out our Quick Tip Guide to make sure your book is the best it can be before hitting the shelves.
- Titles should have a minimum MSRP of $15 USD. If your book costs less than that or much more than that, still reach out. We’re flexible!
- Paperbacks are preferred over hardcover.
- Availability through Ingram with a full retail discount set (53-55%) so that we can easily refill our inventory.
To get your book to Cut the Line:
1. Fill out the AUTHOR PROFILE page. If you’ve done this in the past, skip this step.
2. Fill out the BOOK SUBMISSION page and mark that you’re interested in joining Cut the Line in trade for 8 copies of your book. If you’ve already filled out the submission page for your book, reach out through the main Contact page.
3. We’ll contact you with our next available opening for when we can accept the books and when you should send them to Studio Moonfall.
4. Send us your books! The EASIEST way to do this is to put in an order on KDP for Author Copies and have them shipped directly to Studio Moonfall – 5031 7th Avenue, Kenosha, WI 53140
5. Once we receive your books, we’ll take care of everything and contact you once the photos and your Author Alley page are complete. Your Cut the Line promo period will typically begin the month after we get your books in.
Benefit Details
• Author Alley Profile Page – Your profile page includes your author bio, videos, links to your book on online distributors, and more as we expand this part of Cut the Line. For examples, check out some of our features authors across various genres at www.studiomoonfall.com/authoralley.
• In-Store Photo Series (including Mr. Nanners, our marketing gorilla!) – This set of 12 photos will be part of a year-long promotion of your book with posts going up each month. You’ll be sent the in-store photos for your own promotional uses, as well.
These posts go out between 10 and 11am CST on the Studio Moonfall Facebook page. We’ll tag your author page (business, not personal) when we post so that you can see it and share. And feel free to comment on the posts to let readers know more about it (plus give it a bump of algorithm juice).
• In-store/Email Promotions – Each week, we highlight six books from Cut the Line on an ongoing rotation. Our shoppers get 10% off your book and we’ll make sure to keep it in stock for the entire year of your Cut the Line duration (and linked to online indefinitely). These books are also featured in our Tuesday email newsletter.
• Inclusion in our Bookshop.org expanded catalog as long as your title is available through Ingram. Bookshop.org is an incredible service supporting independent bookstores. How cool is that?!
It also helps us let people know about any later books in your series. And if you have an audiobook available on LibroFM, we’ll link to that on your profile page, too!
*** Special bonus benefit – Cut the Line authors that are available to do our Kenosha Book Festival throughout the summer will be notified about signing up prior to everyone else in case you want to be a vendor.
Ready to join Cut the Line and get shelved at Studio Moonfall?
Fill out the Book Submission page now and let’s find your next Super Fan in Wisconsin!
APPLY NOW FOR CUT THE LINE AND GET SHELVED AT STUDIO MOONFALL!
If you’ve already submitted your books or are currently carried by Studio Moonfall and want to be part of the Cut the Line promotion, click here to contact us!
