About Zitlit
A home for indie stories, smart blurbs, and authors who want their work to be seen.
What Zitlit offers authors
Zitlit is built for indie authors and small presses. You can showcase your books, blurbs, and cover art without paying for placement or ads. Your core tools are free:
- Book Upload Template – keep your cover, blurb, genre, formats, and links together.
- Author Profile – tell readers who you are, why you write, and what your vibe is.
- Let’s Get Started & account tools – manage your books and profile in one place.
Our goal is simple: help you present your work clearly and beautifully, so readers can discover the stories they’ll love.
Zitlit includes an optional AI blurb helper that can:
- Reword or tighten the blurb you already wrote.
- Suggest alternative versions for different retailers or audiences.
- Help translate blurbs into other languages.
You stay in control at all times: AI suggestions are just that – suggestions. You choose what to use, edit, or ignore.
What’s allowed on Zitlit
Zitlit is open to a wide range of books and genres. We welcome:
- Fiction and non-fiction in most genres (romance, sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, horror, memoir, etc.).
- Indie projects, small press titles, and backlist titles you retain the rights to promote.
- Experimentation – cross-genre, niche, and unusual projects are all welcome.
What’s not allowed
To keep Zitlit safe and respectful for readers and creators, some content is not allowed on the platform. This includes (but isn’t limited to):
- Books or content that promote or glorify racism, hate speech, or abuse.
- Material that targets people with slurs or incites harm based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected traits.
- Harassment, bullying, or doxxing of individuals or groups.
- Books created primarily as political propaganda or to push extremist ideologies.
- Content that encourages or glorifies violence, terrorism, or criminal activity.
- Any material that breaks the law in your country or ours – including copyright infringement, defamation, non-consensual or exploitative content, and anything involving minors.
If a book, description, cover, or author profile clearly crosses these lines, Zitlit may refuse to list it or may remove it from the platform.
Zitlit’s rights and your responsibilities
By uploading your books and information to Zitlit, you confirm that:
- You have the right to promote and share the work (for example, you are the author or rights holder).
- Your content doesn’t break any applicable laws where you live or where Zitlit operates.
- Your books and profile follow the content guidelines above.
To protect readers, authors, and the platform, Zitlit reserves the right to:
- Remove books, blurbs, covers, or profiles that appear to break these guidelines or any applicable laws.
- Disable or suspend user accounts that repeatedly or seriously violate these rules.
- Refuse service in cases of abuse, harassment, or attempts to misuse Zitlit.
In most cases, we aim to contact the author first and explain what’s gone wrong. For serious or urgent issues, content may be removed immediately.
This page is a plain-language overview of how Zitlit works and the kind of content we accept. It is not legal advice and does not replace our full Terms of Service or Privacy Policy. For anything legally binding, please refer to those documents once they are in place.
Contact Zitlit
Questions about your books, your account, or these guidelines? You can reach us at hello@zitlit.com.