Hope you're doing well, and thanks for reaching out! I can confirm we don't have an employee with that email address working at BookBub, so that doesn't look like a real account. Let me know if we can be of any additional support on our end!

That's a pretty BS response.

That email you got was not saying they were an employee, and BB assuming that's what it meant is not good.

That response suggests they are completely unconcerned by scammers pretending to be affiliated with them.

I've been posting this a lot lately.  All romantasy is NOT porn. There are "clean/wholesome" romantasy authors making good money as well (or so I see in author groups).

I don't know if it's the fact that romance dominates so much of the industry, that most of the authors are women, or something else entirely...but this idea that all romance is smut goes along with all fantasy is grimdark or all space opera is tech over character. 

It's all not true, but we keep seeing this on so many sites.

Outlander has a lot of the "female gaze" in the show, especially in the scenes between the two main characters.  Personally, I find it too dark to watch, which is a shame because the music and landscapes in the first season are amazing.  The actors are good, but I couldn't put up with all the violence and rape in the storyline.  (Same with Game of Thrones...and that's written by a man.)

I don't consider myself a romance author.  I write stories that have adventure, romance, mystery, fantasy, and sometimes a little magic.

"In certain corners of the internet recently, people have been debating why 'women can't stop reading fairy porn'....also known as romantasy, which has exploded in both popularity and sales. Onyx Storm, Rebecca Yarros's third book in The Empyrean series, was the fastest-selling adult novel in 20 years when published in early 2025...sold more than 2.7m copies in its first week.  Bloomberg reported that romantasy was estimated to bring in US$610m (?455m) in sales in 2024, revitalising the publishing industry....Romantasy books...centre the 'female-gaze' in which female desire, power and identity are explored from a female point of view...."

Romantasy: sexy tales of women-centred fantasy fiction are boosting the publishing industry
The Conversation  January 20, 2026
https://theconversation.com/romantasy-sexy-tales-of-women-centred-fantasy-fiction-are-boosting-the-publishing-industry-272737

Time to bunker in for a few days.   

https://jefftanyard.blogspot.com/2026/01/ice-storm-incoming.html

Marketing consultant in Georgia? BookBub is based in Massachusetts. Promos have been doing poorly overall. Reading Deals and Buck Books have closed this month. But BookBub soliciting authors-- I don't believe it.

Please let us know if this is legitimate, Jan. I'd be curious to know BookBub's response.

I will report back  .
 If they are soliciting then now is the time to apply for an ad