Love Cozies & Free Books? Join Kensington’s Cozy Card Program!
Do you love cozy mysteries? Do you also love free books? Then sign up for Kensington’s Cozy Card program!
The Cozy Card program is a rewards program created by Kensington Publishing to support the cozy mystery genre and get people excited about cozy mysteries via a loyalty card that rewards fans for reading cozy mysteries. It’s like coffee shop punch cards where they offer a free coffee after ten punched purchases, only this loyalty punch card is for free books—exclusively cozy mysteries—provided by the publisher, Kensington!
The best part is it’s a FREE program (besides the cost of a stamp) for bookstores, librarians, and cozy readers.
How does it work? It’s simple!
Here are some of the advance reading copies already sent to readers in Kensington’s Cozy Card Program: Sherry Harris’ FROM BEER TO ETERNITY, Maddie Day’s NACHO AVERAGE MURDER, Cate Conte’s WITCH HUNT, Cheryl Hollon’s STILL KNIFE PAINTING, Mary Marks’ KNOT OF THIS WORLD, Daryl Wood Gerber’s A SPRINKLING OF MURDER, and many more!
A reader can redeem up to ten (10) cards total, which means they can send in a total of 10 stamped/punched cozy cards and Kensington will mail them 10 total cozy mysteries. They are keeping track of how many are redeemed by each reader and will let a reader know when they’ve reached their max. They are also keeping track of which books have already been sent so readers never get the same book twice. Completed cozy cards must be mailed to:
Kensington Publishing
c/o Larissa Ackerman
119 W 40th St., Floor 21
New York, NY 10018
We love when librarians and booksellers help readers discover books published by Kensington, that’s why we created the Cozy Card program to build excitement and community around the cozy mystery genre. All cozy mysteries qualify, regardless of publisher or author, although we understandably appreciate it if the cozy mystery is from Kensington Publishing!
Sometimes the line between a cozy mystery and a regular mystery can be thin. If you are uncertain whether a book qualifies as a cozy mystery, we encourage you to err on the side of inclusion, especially if it is a traditional, historical, or light mystery. However, thrillers, dark mysteries, hardboiled mysteries, and crime novels don’t count!
Due to COVID-19 restrictions set in place, there are some updates to the program related to the coronavirus outbreak—we thank you very much for your patience during these abnormal times!
- Please keep in mind mailings for the cozy card kits, cozy cards, and redemptions are delayed and can take over three weeks to arrive.
- If you already signed up for a cozy card over a month ago but haven’t received it yet, please contact Larissa Ackerman at LAckerman@KensingtonBooks.com. If you recently signed up for a cozy card, please know it is most likely on its way!
- If you mailed in a completed cozy card over a month ago but haven’t received your redemption yet, please contact Larissa.
- We understand many bookstores and libraries are either closed or only doing curbside pickup and thus readers can’t have their cards stamped by a librarian/bookseller. If this is the case for you, please contact Larissa and she will chat with you on a way to make it work!
We hope you enjoy Kensington’s Cozy Card program!
Readers: Did you know about this program?