Since last weekend was a freebie bonanaza for everyone, this weekend’s is not. It’s a special promo giveaway, explanation to follow. Before I get to it, if you expressed interest in the Camel Book Drive, I’ll be contacting you in a day or two to get that together - and if you didn’t see the post and want to participate, go and read and do!
Via Lee Goldberg’s blog, here’s Steve Weber’s PLUG YOUR BOOK: ONLINE BOOK MARKETING FOR AUTHORS. Lee says:
(…) while it told me a lot I already knew, he provides plenty of good advice, many useful short-cuts, and lots of real-world examples drawn from all over the web.
The husband, seeing I had the page pulled up says, “You’d better not be buying that book because you could write it.” Which is a perfect segue into this weekend’s giveaway.
Since the THE PERFECT STRANGER copies I have arrived a month in advance of the book’s release, I feel a need to use them promotionally to get the word out. I’ve done the blogging thing in the past, giving copies to bloggers to read in exchange for their reaction to the book, good or bad.
In order to reach a broader readership, this time, I’m going to give bloggers a copy of the book to GIVE AWAY on their sites. I’ve got 30 books up for grabs, meaning 30 bloggers can participate. Reader bloggers, author bloggers, I don’t care.
Here’s the deal. You need to have an established blog with a regular readership. I’ll give you a .jpg of the cover to post, the code to either of the video trailers below if you’d like to use one (the server hosting them is rather slow at times, so you may have to refresh to see both), the back copy, and an exclusive excerpt found nowhere else on the web.
If you’d like, I can do a mini interview of one or two questions, or a short blog for you, but I don’t want to wear out my welcome around the web, and I don’t have tons of extra time!
All you have to do is post the info and offer up the book before the release date of March 27th, running whatever sort of giveaway you’d like to on your blog. That’s up to you.
I’m not asking anyone to pimp the book - unless you have already read it (and if you’d like to, I still have 6 ARCs which I’ll supply on a first come first served basis). This is just a giveaway for you to do aimed at reaching readers who don’t visit my site and might be interested in the book.
I’ll also offer up this quote from a bookseller to explain a bit of what I do:
“I’ve already recommended you to my customers, but I’ve just thought of some others who I’ve turned on to Cherry Adair, Suzanne Brockman, Amy Fetzer, Cindy Gerard…the women writers who construct great adventure novels with fierce romances attached…that I’ll have to turn them on to you, too.” — Lee Ann Daugherty, Romance “Mistress”, Waldenbooks #1393, Elizabethtown, KY
In return, I’ll give you your choice of anything from my backlist (subject to availability). If you’re interested, email me at tpsblogging@alisonkent.com - that’s the only place I’ll be checking for responses!
If you’re an international blogger, you can still participate, but instead of me sending you the book to mail out, I’ll mail it from here. Once I get my official author copies, I’ll be doing more giveaways, so if you’re not a blogger, don’t worry! Your time to win will come!
I’m giving away a copy of Judy Cuevas’s BLISS. To be eligible, just tell me in the comments the most you’ve ever paid for a collectible book and the title. If you’ve never bought one, tell me that instead. Then tell me who you’ll share the book with once you’re finished reading it, or let me know if you’ll keep it for your shelves. Just curious!
