Black Friday Deals for Romance Authors 2024

Black Friday is … well on Friday! While it’s a great time to pick up deals for holiday giving, authors can find other great deals to support their writing career. Or they can let their friends and family know of these great gift ideas.

By the way, if you’re into savings, make sure you sign up for Swagbucks and/or Rakuten. So many online retailers earn your points through these programs that you can use for cash back or giftcards. I let my points ride until this time of year, when I use them to buy gifts or get giftcards for gifts.s for gifts.

Editing Tools

ProWritingAid – Get 50% OFF Yearly and Lifetime Plans This Black Friday

ProWritingAid is one of the most used editing tools in the writing world. It will not only help you find grammar and spelling errors, but also it can help you improve the quality of your writing. It finds passive voice, highlights when you start too many sentences in a row with the same word, offers suggestions for better word choices, and more.

Autocrit – Get 50% off lifetime plan (need to wait for Black Friday Deal to pop down on the page to access it)

This is the deal I got years ago. Although there are almost too many bells and whistles for me, there is so much this app can do to help you find and fix issues from the basics like passive voice, filler words, overused words, to areas like tense issues, pacing,

EditGPG – Get Annual Plan 40% off Promo code: LIFETIME40

I just discovered this through Jane Friedman’s Hotsheet and am excited to try it out. It’s an editor like ProWritingAid, that allows you to decide how deep you want your editing to be, help to modify tone and structure, or tailor to a specific audience. You use Word Track Changes so you know what you changed (ideal for editors and proofreaders), and it works in many languages. It’s free up to 10,000 words per month, or for Pro it’s $10 per month ($8/mo with yearly subscription $96) for 200,000 words, and for Elite $25 per month ($20 /mo with yearly subscription $240) for 1,000,000 words.

But with your promo code: LIFETIME40, you can save 40% on annual plans… Pro: approx $58 and Elite: $144 (if I’ve done the math right!).

Graphics

Deposit Photos – $49 single onetime purchase

• • All images are royalty-free
  • Images may be used for commercial purposes, both online and print
  • Images can be downloaded at any time
  • Background remover
  • Image upscaler
  • Reverse image search
  • 100 one-time AI image generator credits
  • 100 one-time image/vector, video, or audio file credits from Depositphotos
  • 300M+ images to choose from

Not only do I use Deposit Photos for my covers, but also for social media, blog posts, and more. I signed up for the regular monthly subscription because this special deal wasn’t available when I needed graphics. Lucky you, Appsumo is running the special offer where you can get 100 stock photo and vector images of any size, that are royalty-free and come with a standard license (you can use them for book covers, social media, etc).

Social Media

Social Bee – 70% off for 3 months on all monthly plans or 50% off for 1 year on all yearly plans: Promo code: SOCIALBEEBF24.

30% off for 3 months on all monthly ConciergeBee services (content created for you)  with code CBEEBF24

Create, recycle, schedule, publish, analyze, engage, collaborate, and approve your social media posts — all from one place.

This is the social scheduling tool I use. In full transparency, I picked it up as a special deal through AppSumo, which isn’t available anymore. But I still this is a great deal. Social Bee works with all the major social media platforms:

• Facebook (pages and groups – for groups you need to turn on universal posting)
• Instagram (posts, reels, stories)
• Threads
• X
• Bluesky
• TikTok
• Pinterest
• LinkedIn
• Google
• YouTube

PLUS…it integrates with Canva. You can pull in or create your Canva content from within Social Bee. It also integrats with Upsplash and Giphy.

You can create posting categories and schedule by category, such as  “WWH blog post” is scheduled for Wednesdays. Any content I make in that category is put in the posting queue for Wednesday.

Any content you create, you can mark for reposting and it will go into the queue as well. This is great for posts like “Get my free book” or “Follow me on”, etc.

You can create hashtag lists, add emojis and more. You can create a single post to go out to several platforms, and tweak each post from within your posting setup.

Finally, you can get analytics on how your posts do.

TikTok for Authors – 30% off the course (actually, you can 30% off any of Kate’s courses – check the Courses tab on the website)

I’ve taken a couple of TikTok courses, and this one I felt was the most helpful because Kate is a romance author who boosted her book sales through TikTok. She explains how the algorithm works (different from other platforms) and how to create videos (faceless if you want) that get traction. She even walks through why you might want to dump your existing account if it’s not working, and how to create accounts that target your reader (e.g. instead of an author account, a romance book account).

Of course, the U.S. may ban TikTok in January 2025. At one point, the incoming president posted a TikTok saying if you want to keep TikTok, vote for him and he’ll save it. But with all the concerns about China, who knows if that will happen?

Kate has other courses which are also 30% off including (Note prices here are regular prices. Discount is taken on the order page)

• Streamline & Sell ($199 or 2 payments of $99.99)- The comprehensive course for marketing your books on ANY platform QUICKLY so you can get back to what you love! 
• TikTok for Authors ($199 One time $49.99 For 4 months) – The comprehensive TikTok course that has already helped thousands of authors…
• Book Marketing Pro – The all-new course on creating hooks that will sell your books on any platform! (Note: Kate’s methods relies on hooks to grab readers, so if creating them about your books or social content ideas is hard, this could be a course you want to check out.)
• Self Publishing Success ($25 regular) – Learn the easiest way to start publishing your very own books! 

You can access all these courses at Alyne Digital Solutions under the Course tab.

KingSumo – (Free or $49) This is a contest app, but along with running a contest, it can help built your social following and email subscribers.

Productivity

Merlin (Appsumo Deal for Today, Nov. 26) – This is a chrome extension that gives you access top AI models like GPT-4, GPT-4o, Claude-3, Gemini, Opus, Mistral, and Llama in one click. Use AI to research and summarize videos, websites, and documents, plus write social media content in 128 languages, and more.

AppSumo – Lots of Black Friday deals and regular deals to help with everything from social media, productivity, SEO, video, photos, email, and more. I’ve bought a ton of great apps and tools from AppSumo, like KingSumo (Free or $49), a contest app, but along with running a contest, it can help built your social following and email subscribers.