Give your Kindle some love with these free romance e-books

• The Closed-Door Book Blast
• What is Stuff Your E-Reader Day?

Nothing says cuffing season like cold weather creeping up on your doorstep, and the end of November sets the stage for the perfect cozy-yet-not-holiday-dominated vibe. You can trust romances in chilly November more than frigid February — we still have some Vitamin D leftover from the end of summer and the winter blues haven’t kicked in yet. All you need is a stack of good love stories to lean into the scene before the holidays, and right now is the perfect time to stock up. Stuff Your Kindle Day is back with closed-door romance novels and lasts until this Saturday, November 22.

Right now, you can snag a score of closed-door romance e-books through Indie Author Collective’s November Book Blast event. Popularly known as Stuff Your E-Reader (or Kindle) Day, hundreds of themed titles are temporarily free, discounted to $1, or made available on Kindle Unlimited, Kobo Plus, or the author’s own website. You can download as many books as you’d like, and they’re yours to keep — unlike your last situationship, though hopefully you choose one that warms your icy heart.

Here’s everything you need to know about the November Stuff Your E-Reader Day.

The Closed-Door Book Blast

Romance fans, break out your box of chocolates

Running until Saturday, November 22, you can download hundreds of closed-door romance e-books through Indie Author Collective’s November book blast. Closed-door romances are a subset of romance novels where, while intimacy is heavily implied, explicit sexual scenes are not described on the page. Right before those scenes, there’s almost a ‘fade to black’ effect where the reader suddenly finds themselves skipping in time to afterward or suddenly in a different place than the characters entirely.

This allows readers who want to avoid sexually explicit content but still enjoy romance novels to find books that don’t cross any lines. Indie Author Collective also provides a smart filter system that lets you hone in on your preferences even more by:

• Genre
• Content Level
• Spice Level (mature content)
• Geographical availability
• Promos
• Major Tropes
• Representation

It also gives you an overview of these categories when you click on a particular title, too, so you know exactly what you’re signing up to read before you download it to your e-reader.

What is Stuff Your E-Reader Day?

Sporadic themed book blasts

Indie Author Collective is a platform that helps readers and authors find each other, discover new books, and access resources to help them navigate the ever-changing publishing world. Throughout the year, the organization hosts online events that make hundreds of indie titles free, priced at only $1, or otherwise available in some other convenient way. The mission is to make as many e-books as possible available to help promote authors, their works, and basically get their stories into as many hands (or e-readers) as possible.

As long as you have an e-reader (or reading app on a phone or tablet) you can participate in Stuff Your E-Reader Day. Call it a win-win for authors and readers alike: free marketing for up-and-coming writers, and free hidden gems for the bookworms.

This month, the event focuses on closed-door romances. However, if that’s not your jam, the book blast highlights dozens of other themes throughout the year. Here’s what you can get excited about coming up:

• Winter Wonderland (wintery-feeling books): December 16-20
• Play Game — a sports fiction book blast: January 21-24
• Be My Valentine — a romance book blast: February 9-13
• Uniform Madness — an occupational book blast: March 18-21
• Stuff Your E-Reader — an all-genre book blast: April 15-18
• Into the Darkness — a dark and mafia book blast: May 13-16
• Fantastical Escape — a fantasy book blast: June 10-13
• Something Strange — a sci-fi and dystopian book blast: July 8-11
• Stuff Your E-Reader — an all-genre book blast: August 5-8
• Gotta Get ‘Em All! — a series book blast: September 23-26
• Get Spooked — a thriller, horror, paranormal, and mystery book blast: October 26-30
• Short and Sweet — a novella and short story book blast: November 25-28
• New Beginnings — a debut book blast: December 20-23

I hope your 16GB of Kindle storage is prepared.

Remember that if you download any titles outside of Kindle Unlimited or Kobo Plus, they’re yours — permanently.